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Are lone mothers responsive to policy changes? The effects of a Norwegian workfare reform on earnings, education and poverty
Full text linkHigh welfare dependency and poverty rate among lone mothers prompted a workfare reform of the Norwegian welfare system for lone parents: activity requirements were brought in, time limits imposed and benefit levels raised. To evaluate the reform we introduce an estimator that, unlike the much used difference-in-difference approach, accounts for the fact that policy changes are typically phased in gradually rather than coming into full effect immediately. We find that the reform has not only led to increased earnings and educational attainment in the process lowering welfare caseloads and therefore easing the governments financial burden but also reduced poverty
Measuring long-term inequality of opportunity
Full text linkIn this paper, we introduce a new family of rank-dependent measures of inequality and social welfare consistent with the equality of opportunity (EOp) principle. The proposed framework can be used to measure long-term as well as short-term EOp, depending on whether we let permanent income or snapshots of income form the basis of the analysis. Furthermore, it allows for both an ex-ante and an ex-post approach to EOp. There is long-term ex-post inequality of opportunity if individuals who exert the same effort have different permanent incomes. In comparison, the ex-ante approach focuses on differences in the expected permanent income between groups of individuals with identical circumstances. To demonstrate the empirical relevance of a long-run perspective on EOp, we exploit a unique panel data from Norway on individuals' incomes over their working life span. This allows us to examine how well analysis of opportunity inequality based on snapshots of income approximate the results based on permanent income
Replication Data for: 'How Americans Respond to Idiosyncratic and Exogenous Changes in Household Wealth and Unearned Income'
No full textThe programs replicate tables and figures from "How Americans Respond to Idiosyncratic and Exogenous Changes in Household Wealth and Unearned Income", by Golosov, Graber, Mogstad, and Novgorodsky. Please see the README file for additional details
Replication data for: What Is the Case for Paid Maternity Leave?
No full textDahl, Gordon B., Loken, Katrine V., Mogstad, Magne, and Salvanes, Kari Vea, (2016) "What Is the Case for Paid Maternity Leave?." Review of Economics and Statistics 98:4, 655-670
Replication data for: What Is the Case for Paid Maternity Leave?
No full textDahl, Gordon B., Loken, Katrine V., Mogstad, Magne, and Salvanes, Kari Vea, (2016) "What Is the Case for Paid Maternity Leave?." Review of Economics and Statistics 98:4, 655-670
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Adjusting for age effects in cross-sectional distributions
No full textWith permission from publisher - StataCorp
http://www.stata-journal.com/Income and wealth differ over the life cycle. In cross-sectional distri-
butions of income or wealth, classical inequality measures such as the Gini, could
therefore find substantial inequality even if everyone have the same life-time in-
come or wealth. We describe the
AG
index (Almås and Mogstad, 2011) which
is a generalization of the classical Gini index with attractive properties, and we
provide the
adgini
command which provides the
AG
index as well as the classical
Gini index. The
adgini
command provides options to produce other well known
age-adjusted inequality measures, such as the Paglin-Gini (Paglin, 1975) and the
Wertz-Gini (Wertz, 1977), and provides efficient estimation of the classical Gini
coefficient
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