This paper takes a step toward identifying the ultimate drivers of productivity growth at the industry level. Based on Neoclassical and New Growth Theory we develop an empirical methodology that allows us to test for the fundamental drivers of industry productivity growth. We present two sets of industry classifications, one based on ICT intensity and another based on innovation types. Using OE...

July 2017 IZA DP No. 10905 Behavioral Responses and Welfare Reform: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment* Recent studies have used a distributional analysis of welfare reform experiments suggesting that some individuals reduce hours in order to opt into welfare, an example of behavioralinduced participation. Using data on Connecticut’s Jobs First experiment, we find no evidence of behavioral-i...

The recent financial crisis has shown that the reforming in regulation and supervision is essential. This paper studies whether banking regulation improves bank soundness or more regulation lead to decrease soundness of banking. Specifically, countries which require banks to report regularly and accurately their financial data to regulators and market participants have sounder banks. In th...

In this paper, we consider semiparametric estimation in a partially linear single– index panel data model with fixed effects. Without taking the difference explicitly, we propose using a semiparametric minimum average variance estimation (SMAVE) based on a dummy–variable method to remove the fixed effects and obtain consistent estimators for both the parameters and the unknown link function. As...

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Renewable energy, which is the type of energy that plays a major role in development and growth countries, an important today’s world, considering life depleted resources finite. Compared to fossil sources, except its source infinite, noticeable difference carbon dioxide emission seen as reason for preferring renewable sources. Many studies literature investigate relationship between consumptio...

Investigation of peer effects on achievement with sample survey data on schools may mean that only a random sample of peers is observed for each individual. This generates classical measurement error in peer variables, resulting in the estimated peer group effects in a regression model being biased towards zero under OLS model fitting. We investigate the problem using survey data for England fr...

Article history: Received 24 August 2014 Received in revised form 28 February 2015 Accepted 2 March 2015 Available online 10 March 2015 JEL classifications: C93 D01 D82 K42 PsycINFO classifications: 3120 3450 3660

Article history: Accepted 17 September 2013 JEL classifications: L13 L15