Browsing by Subject "Heterogeneity"
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Can census data alone signal heterogeneity in the estimation of poverty maps?
(2011-07)Methodologies now commonly used for the construction of poverty maps assume a substantial degree of homogeneity within geographical areas in the relationship between income and its predictors. However, local labor and rental ... -
Heterogeneity in Mortgage Refinancing
(2022-06-22)Many households who would benefit from and are eligible to refinance their mortgages fail to do so. A recent literature has demonstrated a significant degree of heterogeneity in the propensity to refinance across various ... -
Multitasking and Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in Pay-for-Performance in Health Care: Evidence from Rwanda
(Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) Working Paper, 2015-08-01)Performance-based contracting is particularly challenging in health care, where multiple agents, information asymmetries and other market failures compound the critical contracting concern of multitasking. As performance-based ... -
Secession and Survival: Nations, States and Violent Conflict
(2009)Secession is a watershed event not only for the new state that is created and the old state that is dissolved, but also for neighboring states, proximate ethno-political groups and major powers. This project examines the ... -
Using Census and Survey Data to Estimate Poverty and Inequality for Small Areas
(2008)Household expenditure survey data cannot yield precise estimates of poverty or inequality for small areas for which no or few observations are available. Census data are more plentiful, but typically exclude income ...
