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Econometrics Paper

Inference in the presence of unknown rates

Hao Dong, Taisuke Otsu and Luke Taylor

The convergence rate of an estimator can vary when applied to datasets from differ- ent populations. As the population is unknown in practice, so is the corresponding convergence rate. In this paper, we introduce a metho...Read more...

26 September 2023

Econometrics Paper

Bandwidth selection for nonparametric regression with errors-in-variables

Hao Dong, Taisuke Otsu and Luke Taylor

We propose two novel bandwidth selection procedures for the nonparametric regression model with classical measurement error in the regressors. Each method is based on evaluating the prediction errors of the regression us...Read more...

25 January 2022

CASEpaper

No such thing as a free lunch? Exploring the consistency, validity, and uses of the ‘Free School Meals’ (FSM) measure in the National Pupil Database

Tammy Campbell and Polina Obolenskaya

This paper examines the existing literature on what the Free School Meals (‘FSM’) measure in the National Pupil Database (NPD) can proxy, and on ways in which the measure is used and understood. Through new empirical ana...Read more...

12 November 2021

Econometrics Paper

On linearization of nonparametric deconvolution estimators for repeated measurements model

Daisuke Kurisu and Taisuke Otsu

By utilizing intermediate Gaussian approximations, this paper establishes asymptotic linear representations of nonparametric deconvolution estimators for the classical measurement error model with repeated measurements. ...Read more...

19 July 2021

Econometrics Paper

Switching Regressions with Imperfect Regime Classification Information: Theory and Applications

V A Hajivassiliou

Econometrics Paper

On the uniform convergence of deconvolution estimators from repeated measurements

Daisuke Kurisu and Taisuke Otsu

This paper studies the uniform convergence rates of Li and Vuong's (1998) nonparametric deconvolution estimator and its regularized version by Comte and Kappus (2015) for the classical measurement error model, where repe...Read more...

22 July 2019

Econometrics Paper

Nonparametric Estimation of Additive Model with Errors-in-Variables

Hao Dong and Taisuke Otsu

In estimation of nonparametric additive models, conventional methods, such as backfitting and series approximation, cannot be applied when measurement errors are present in covariates. We propose an estimator for such ...Read more...

27 November 2018

CASEpaper

The relationship between poverty and inequality: Resource constraint mechanisms

Lin Yang

This paper examines how inequality from the interaction of income and housing circumstances changes the relative position of households in the income distribution, and influences the incidence and socio-demographic prof...Read more...

23 November 2018

CASEpaper

The relationship between poverty and inequality: Concepts and measurement

Lin Yang

This paper defines and maps the variety of different concepts and measures of poverty and inequality that have been developed and used in research. These reflect differing views of what constitutes a minimum acceptable q...Read more...

21 November 2017

Econometrics Paper

Inference on distribution functions under measurement error

Karun Adusumilli, Taisuke Otsu and Yoon-Jae Whang

CASEpaper

Inequality and the Capability Approach

Tania Burchardt and Rod Hick

Inequality has acquired a newfound prominence in academic and political debate. While scholars working with the capability approach have succeeded in influencing the nature of debate about the conceptualisation and measu...Read more...

13 January 2017

Econometrics Paper

Specification testing for errors-in-variables models

Taisuke Otsu and Luke Taylor

This paper considers specification testing for regression models with errors-in-variables and proposes a test statistic comparing the distance between the parametric and nonparametric fits based on deconvolution techniqu...Read more...

15 August 2016

CASEpaper

How do experts think child poverty should be measured in the UK? An analysis of the Coalition Government’s consultation on child poverty measurement 2012-13

Kitty Stewart and Nick Roberts

This paper examines responses to a 2012-13 government consultation on child poverty measurement. It explores what these responses tell us about attitudes towards the child poverty indicators in the Child Poverty Act 2010...Read more...

14 July 2016

Econometrics Paper

Nonparametric instrumental regression with errors in variables

Karun Adusumilli and Taisuke Otsu

This paper considers nonparametric instrumental variable regression when the endogenous variable is contaminated with classical measurement error. Existing methods are inconsistent in the presence of measurement error. W...Read more...

21 July 2015

SPCC Working Paper

Small-area measures of income poverty

Alex Fenton

This paper considers techniques for measuring the prevalence of income poverty within small areas, or “neighbourhoods”, in Britain. The ultimate purpose is applying such statistics to investigating how the micro-spatial ...Read more...

21 August 2013

Public Economics Programme Discussion Paper

Mobility in China

Yi Chen and Frank A Cowell

We examine the evidence on rank and income mobility in China during the decades immediately preceding and immediately following the millennium using panel data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey. We show that ran...Read more...

13 May 2013

CASEpaper

On 'Consistent' Poverty

Rod Hick

The measurement of poverty as ‘consistent’ poverty offers a solution to one of the primary problems of poverty measurement within Social Policy of the last three decades. Often treated as if they were synonymous, ‘indire...Read more...

1 December 2012

DARP Paper

Goodness-of-Fit: An Economic Approach

Frank A Cowell, Emmanuel Flachaire and Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay

Specific functional forms are often used in economic models of distributions; goodness-of-fit measures are used to assess whether a functional form is appropriate in the light of real-world data. Standard approaches use ...Read more...

April 2009

Japanese Studies Programme Paper

Earnings Quality, Accruals and Subjective Goodwill Accounting

Yuko Katsuo

This paper analyses accounting accruals that may relate to earnings quality and its information content. The characteristics specifying earning quality are discussed according to research surveys of earnings quality. The...Read more...

April 2008

CASEpaper

Definition of equality and framework for measurement: Final Recommendations of the Equalities Review Steering Group on Measurement

Tania Burchardt and Polly Vizard

In October 2007, a unified Commission on Equality and Human Rights (CEHR) will begin operation in Britain. The Commission will have responsibility for monitoring and promoting human rights and equality on the grounds of ...Read more...

April 2007

DARP Paper

Income Fluctuation, Poverty and Well-Being Over Time: Theory and Application to Argentina

Guillermo Cruces

This paper studies poverty as a dynamic phenomenon, motivated by the recurring economic crises that affect developing countries and the incidence of income fluctuations on household welfare. While the increasing availabi...Read more...

July 2005

DARP Paper

Intergenerational Mobility in Britain: Revisiting the Prediction Approach of Dearden, Machin and Reed

Ramses H. Abul Naga and Frank A Cowell

The 'prediction approach' proposed by Dearden, Machin and Reed (DMR) consists in (1) regressing the observed incomes of the child and parent families on separate sets of predetermined variables, and (2) regressing the ch...Read more...

September 2002

CASEpaper

US Poverty Studies and Poverty Measurement: The past 25 years

Howard Glennerster

This paper discusses the contribution made by American social scientists to the study of poverty in the past twenty five years. It has three parts. The first concentrates on the measurement of poverty and the fact that t...Read more...

October 2000

DARP Paper

Statistical Inference for Welfare under Complete and Incomplete Information, (published in Journal of Economic Inequality, vol. 1 (2003), pp. 191-219)

Frank A Cowell and Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser

We show how a collection of results in the literature on the empirical estimation of welfare indicators from sample data can be unified. We also demonstrate how some of these ideas can be extended to empirically importan...Read more...

December 1999

Econometrics Paper

Testing Game-Theoretic Models of Price Fixing Behaviour

V A Hajivassiliou

This paper analyses price fixing by the Joint Executive Committee railroad cartel from 1880 to 1886 and develops tests of two game-theoretic models of tacit collusion. The first model, due to Abreu, Pearce and Stacchetti...Read more...

March 1997

DARP Paper

Robustness Properties of Inequality Measures: The Influence Function and the Principle of Transfers (Revised version in Econometrica, 64 (1996), pp.77-101)

Frank A Cowell and Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser

Inequality measures are often used to summarise information about empirical income distributions. However , the resulting picture of the distribution and of the changes in the distribution can be severely distorted if th...Read more...

October 1993