We studied labour productivity growth in Ecuador from 1998 to 2006 by using firm-level data from the annual survey of manufacturing and mining. This period is characteris[...]

The recent COVID‐19 pandemic has devastated economies worldwide. Using detailed, monthly data from a major consumer credit reporting agency in Canada, we have examined in[...]

SUMMARY: crs is a library for R written by Jeffrey S. Racine (Maintainer) and Zhenghua Nie. This add-on package provides a collection of functions for spline-based nonpar[...]

crs is a library for R written by Jeffrey S. Racine (Maintainer) and Zhenghua Nie. This add-on package provides a collection of functions for spline-based nonparametric e[...]

Stata is one of the most widely used software for data analysis, statistics, and model fitting by economists, public policy researchers, epidemiologists, among others. St[...]

This paper describes how cloud computing tools widely used in the instruction of data scientists can be introduced and taught to economics students as part of their curri[...]

This paper studies the identification and estimation of social parameters in a general version of the Linear-in-Means model commonly fitted in the Social Sciences with mu[...]

Zimmer ('The role of copulas in the housing crisis', Review of Economics and Statistics 2012; 94: 607-620) provides an interesting case study of the pitfalls of using par[...]

Zimmer ("The role of copulas in the housing crisis", Review of Economics and Statistics 2012; 94: 607-620) provides an interesting case study of the pitfalls of using par[...]

We develop a variant of intervention analysis designed to measure a change in the law of motion for the distribution of individuals in a cross-section, rather than modeli[...]