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165: Hospital Treatment Rates and Spill-Over Effects: Does Ownership Matter?

Badi Baltagi and Yin-Fang Yen

164: Health Information and Social Security Entitlements

Perry Singleton

163: Hedonic Housing Prices in Paris: An Unbalanced Spatial Lag Pseudo-Panel Model with Nested Random Effects

Badi Baltagi, Georges Bresson and Jean-Michae Etienne

162: The Allocation of Time in Sleep: A Social Network Model with Sampled Data

Eleonora Patacchini, Xiaodong Liu and Edoardo Rainone

161: Spatial Lag Models with Nested Random Effects: An Instrumental Variable Procedure with an Application to English House Prices

Badi Baltagi, Bernard Fingleton and Alain Pirotte

160: Measuring Social Unrest Based on Income Distribution

Yoonseok Lee and Donggyun Shin

159: Model Selection in the Presence of Incidental Parameters

Yoonseok Lee and Peter Phillips

158: Peer Effects in the Demand for Housing Quality

Eleonora Patacchini and Giuseppe Venanzoni

157: The Effects of School Desegregation on Teenage Fertility

Robert Bifulco, Leonard M. Lopoo and Sun Jung Oh

156: Heteroskedasticity and Non-normality Robust LM Tests for Spatial Dependence

Badi Baltagi and Zhenlin Yang

155: Pathways to Tax Reform Revisted

Leonard Burman

154: Wrong Skewness and Finite Sample Correction in Parametric Stochastic Frontier Models Abstract: In parametric stochastic frontier models, the composed error is specified as the sum of a two-sided noise component and a one-sided inefficiency component, which is usually assumed half-normal, implying that the error distribution is skewed in one direction. In practice, however, estimation residuals may display skewness in the wrong direction. Model re-specification or pulling a new sample is often prescribed. This paper proposes a feasible alternative: imposing a negative skewness constraint on the residuals in maximum likelihood or corrected least squares estimation

Qu Feng, William Horrace and Guiying Wu

153: Expected Efficiency Ranks From Parametric Stochastic Fronteir Models

William Horrace and Seth Richards-Shubik

152: Effects of Increased Variety on Demand, Pricing, and Welfare

William Horrace, Rui Huang and Jeffrey Perloff

151: The Estimation and Testing of a Linear Regression with Near Unit Root in the Spatial Autoregressive Error Term

Badi Baltagi, Chihwa Kao and Long Liu

150: The Estimation and Testing of a Linear Regression with Near Unit Root in the Spatial Autoregressive Error Term

Badi Baltagi, Chihwa Kao and Long Liu

149: Estimating and Forecasting With A Dynamic Spatial Panel Data Model

Badi Baltagi, Bernard Fingleton and Alain Pirotte

148: The Effects of Disability Insurance: Evidence From Social Security's Disabled-Widow Program

Perry Singleton

147: Testing for Spatial Lag and Spatial Error Dependence Using Double Length Artificial Regressions

Badi Baltagi and Long Liu

146: EC3SLS Estimator for a Simultaneous System of Spatial Autoregressive Equations with Random Effects

Badi Baltagi and Ying Deng

145: How Different Are the Wage Curves for Formal and Informal Workers? Evidence from Turkey

Badi Baltagi, Yusuf Baskaya and Timur Hulagu

144: Testimony presented before the House Committee on Ways and Means and the Senate Committee on Finance entitled “Tax Reform and the Tax Treatment of Capital Gains"

Leonard E. Burman

143: On The Estimation and Testing of Fixed Effects Panel Data Models with Weak Instruments

Badi Baltagi, Chihwa Kao and Long Liu

142: Standardized LM Tests for Spatial Error Dependence in Linear or Panel Regressions

Badi Baltagi and Zhenlin Yang

141: Small Sample Properties and Pretest Estimation of A Spatial Hausman-Taylor Model

Badi Baltagi, Peter Egger and Michaela Kesina

140: A Robust Hausman-Taylor Estimator

Badi Baltagi and Georges Bresson

139: Family Structure and the Economic Wellbeing of Children

Leonard Lopoo and Thomas DeLeire

138: Estimation and Prediction in the Random Effects Model with AR(p) Remainder Disturbances

Badi Baltagi and Long Liu

137: A Lagrange Multiplier Test for Cross-Sectional Dependence in a Fixed Effects Panel Data Model

Badi Baltagi, Qu Feng and Chihwa Kao

136: The Hausman-Taylor Panel Data Model with Serial Correlation

Badi Baltagi and Long Liu

135: Testing for Breaks in Cointegrated Panels

Chihwa Kao, Lorenzo Trapani and Giovanni Urga

134: The Turkish Wage Curve: Evidence from the Household Labor Force Survey

Badi Baltagi, Yusuf Baskaya and Timur Hulagu

133: Social Interactions in the Labor Market

Thomas Kniesner, Andrew Grodner and John A Bishop

132: Losers and Losers: Some Demographics of Medical Malpractice Tort Reforms

Thomas Kniesner and Andrew Friedson

131: Testing for Instability in Covariance Structures

Chihwa Kao, Lorenzo Trapani and Giovanni Urga

130: Medical Technology And The Production Of Health Care

Badi Baltagi, Francesco Moscone and Elisa Tosetti

129: Testing for Breaks in Cointegrated Panels with Common and Idiosyncratic Stochastic Trends

Chihwa Kao, Lorenzo Trapani and Giovanni Urga

128: Test Of Hypotheses In Panel Data Models When The Regressor And Disturbances Are Possibly Nonstationary

Badi Baltagi, Chihwa Kao and Sanggon Na

127: Instrument Variable Estimation of a Spatial Autoregressive Panel Model with Random Effects

Badi Baltagi and Long Liu

126: A Dynamic Spatial Panel Data Approach to the German Wave Curve

Badi Baltagi, Uwe Blien and Katja Wolf

125: Seemingly Unrelated Regressions with Spatial Error Components

Badi Baltagi and Alain Pirotte

124: Can Propensity Score Analysis Replicate Estimates Based on Random Assignment in Evaluations of School Choice? A Within-Study Comparison

Robert Bifulco

123: Panel Data Inference under Spatial Dependence

Badi Baltagi and Alain Pirotte

122: The Value of a Statistical Life: Evidence from Panel Data

Thomas Kniesner, W Viscusi, Christopher Woock and James Ziliak

121: Alternative Technical Efficiency Measures: Skew, Bias, and Scale

Qu Feng and William Horrace

120: Health Care Expenditure and Income in the OECD Reconsidered: Evidence from Panel Data

Badi Baltagi and Francesco Moscone

119: The Effective Target of the Social Security Disability Benefits Reform Act of 1984

Perry Singleton

118: Policy Relevant Heterogeneity in the Value of Statistical Life: New Evidence from Panel Data Quantile Regressions

Thomas Kniesner, W Viscusi and James Ziliak

117: The Value of Statistical Life: Pursuing the Deadliest Catch

Kurt Schnier, William Horrace and Ronald G. Felthoven

116: A Note on the Application of EC2SLS and EC3SLS Estimators in Panel Data Models

Badi Baltagi and Long Liu