This paper proposes a geometric delineation of distributional preference types and a non-parametric approach for their identification in a two-person context. It starts with a small set of assumptions on preferences and shows that this set (i) naturally results in a taxonomy of distributional archetypes that nests all empirically relevant types considered in previous work in economics and socia...

This paper examines whether, in the absence of information on household income or consumption, data on household infrastructure, building materials, and ownership of certain durable assets can be used to measure inequality in living standards. Principal components analysis is used to obtain a relative measure of inequality, and a bootstrap prediction method is provided for use when auxiliary su...

FDI Impact on Firm Performance in Enlarged Europe: Evidence from a Meta-Regression Analysis This paper combines, explains and summarizes recent findings from the empirical literature focusing on the FDI’s effect on firms’ performances by collecting all the relevant firm level quantitative studies to run a regression of regressions focused on Enlarged Europe. The results show that there exists a...

Abstract Background Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is characterized by increased left ventricular (LV) stiffness, leading to raised filling pressures and restrictive diastolic dysfunction (RDD), in itself independently associated with an risk of a clinical deterioration. We assessed whether echocardiography evaluation function HCM could yield prognostic value be useful stratification. Method...

The inhibitor of DNA-binding (Id) proteins, Id1-4 are negative regulators of basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcription factors. As key regulators of cell cycle and differentiation, expression of Id proteins are increasingly observed in many cancers and associated with aggressiveness of the disease. Of all the four Id proteins, the expression of Id1, Id2, and to a lesser extent, Id3 in prostat...

The recent digitization of complete count census data is an extraordinary opportunity for social scientists to create large longitudinal datasets by linking individuals from one another or other sources the census. We evaluate different automated methods record linkage, performing a series comparisons across and against hand linking. have three main findings that lead us conclude perform well. ...

Unit values, calculated as the ratio of household expenditure on a particular food to the quantity consumed, are often used as proxies for market prices in demand studies based on cross-sectional survey data. Because unit values are likely to give biased estimates of price elasticities, Deaton (1987, 1990) developed procedures for correcting these biases. However, empirical evidence on the bias...

A startling fact of firm level productivity analysis is the large and persistent differences in both labour productivity and total factor productivity (TFP) between firms in narrowly defined sectoral classes. The competitiveness of an industry is potentially an important factor explaining this productivity dispersion. The degree of competition has also implications for the measurement of TFP at...

Estimates of a Labour Supply Function Using Alternative Measures of Hours of Work Depending on data source, estimates of hours of work give widely different results both as to level and change. In this paper three alternative measures of hours worked are used to estimate a simple labour supply function to investigate if estimated wage rate and income effects are data dependent as well. The meas...

Psychological and Biological Foundations of Time Preference: Evidence from a Day Reconstruction Study with Biological Tracking This paper considers the relationship between the economic concept of time preference and relevant concepts from psychology and biology. Using novel data from a time diary study conducted in Ireland that combined detailed psychometric testing with medical testing and re...