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Cross-country inequality trends

by Daron Acemoglu - Economic Journal , 2003
"... I review the two most popular explanations for the differential trends in wage inequality in US/ UK and Europe: that relative supply of skills increased faster in Europe, and that European labour market institutions prevented inequality from increasing. Although these explanations go some way toward ..."
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; see, for example, Freeman and Katz (1995), Nickell and Bell (1996), Katz et al. (1995). Table 1 illustrates these trends by showing an estimate of the education pre-mium and the log differences of the 90th and the 10th percentiles of the wage distribution for a number of countries from the Luxembourg

Why do management practices differ across firms and countries

by Nicholas Bloom, John Van Reenen - Journal of Economic Perspectives
"... Economists have long puzzled over the astounding differences in productivity between firms and countries. For example, looking at disaggregated data on U.S. manufacturing industries, Syverson (2004a) found that plants at the 90th percentile produced four times as much as the plant in the 10th percen ..."
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Economists have long puzzled over the astounding differences in productivity between firms and countries. For example, looking at disaggregated data on U.S. manufacturing industries, Syverson (2004a) found that plants at the 90th percentile produced four times as much as the plant in the 10th

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"... Income and wage inequality among adults with at least some college education has risen in the U.S. since 1970, so that the difference between a male in this group who is at the 90th percentile of the income distribution and a male at the 10th percentile has risen from about $13,275 in 1972 to about ..."
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Income and wage inequality among adults with at least some college education has risen in the U.S. since 1970, so that the difference between a male in this group who is at the 90th percentile of the income distribution and a male at the 10th percentile has risen from about $13,275 in 1972 to about

Peer Effects and Alcohol Use Among College Students,” National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper no

by Michael Kremer, Dan M. Levy , 2003
"... This paper examines a natural experiment in which students at a large state university are randomly assigned roommates through a lottery system. We find that on average, males assigned to roommates who reported drinking in the year prior to entering college had one quarter-point lower GPA than those ..."
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those assigned to non-drinking roommates. The 10 th percentile of their college GPA is half a point lower than among males assigned non-drinking roommates. For males who themselves drank frequently prior to college, assignment to a roommate who drank frequently prior to college reduces GPA by almost a

Growth Restriction

by Claire Infante-rivard, Georges-etienne Rivard, Robert Gauthier
"... sidered a risk factor for thrombosis and atherosclerosis. We hypothesized that higher maternal and newborn homocysteine concentrations in plasma would increase the risk of intrauterine growth restriction through pla-cental thrombosis. Methods: We carried out a case-control study that in-cluded all c ..."
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cases born at our institution over a 2-year period whose birthweight was below the 10th percen-tiles for gestational age and sex according to Canadian norms; controls were born at the same period and institution at or above the 10th percentiles and were matched on gestational age, race, and sex

On Economic Heavy Hitters: Shapley value analysis of the 95th-percentile pricing

by Rade Stanojevic, Nikolaos Laoutaris, Pablo Rodriguez , 2010
"... Cost control for the Internet access providers (AP) influences not only the nominal speeds offered to the customers, but also other, more controversial, policies related to traffic shaping and discrimination. Given that the cost for the AP is determined by the peak-hour traffic (e.g. through the 95t ..."
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th-percentile), the individual user contribution towards the aggregate cost is not a linear function of its byte usage. In this paper we propose a metric for evaluating the contribution each individual user has on the peak demand, that is based on Shapley value, a well known game-theoretic concept

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"... Fetal growth restriction (FGR) is defined as seriously lower estimated fetal weight and (later) confirmed birth weight (lower than the 10th percentile according to local reference curves). This whole group is associated with poorer perina-tal outcome (eg, preeclampsia and stillbirth) and has serious ..."
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Fetal growth restriction (FGR) is defined as seriously lower estimated fetal weight and (later) confirmed birth weight (lower than the 10th percentile according to local reference curves). This whole group is associated with poorer perina-tal outcome (eg, preeclampsia and stillbirth) and has

RESEARCH ARTICLE The Likelihood of Experiencing Relative Poverty over the Life Course

by Mark R. Rank, Thomas A. Hirschl
"... Research on poverty in the United States has largely consisted of examining cross-sec-tional levels of absolute poverty. In this analysis, we focus on understanding relative poverty within a life course context. Specifically, we analyze the likelihood of individuals falling below the 20th percentile ..."
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percentile and the 10th percentile of the income distribution between the ages of 25 and 60. A series of life tables are constructed using the nationally representative Panel Study of Income Dynamics data set. This includes panel data from 1968 through 2011. Results indicate that the prevalence of relative

Use of quantile regression to investigate the longitudinal association between physical activity and body mass index. Obesity 2014, 22, E149–E156. [CrossRef] [PubMed

by Matteo Bottai, Edward A. Frongillo, Xuemei Sui, Jennifer R. O’neill, Robert E, Trudy L. Burns, Angela D. Liese, Steven N. Blair, Russell R. Pate
"... Objective—To examine associations among age, physical activity (PA), and birth cohort on body mass index (BMI) percentiles in men. Design and Methods—Longitudinal analyses using quantile regression were conducted among men with ≥ two examinations between 1970 and 2006 from the Aerobics Center Longit ..."
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. Inactive men gained weight significantly more rapidly than active men. At the 10th percentile, increases in BMI among inactive, moderately active, and highly active men were 0.092, 0.078, and 0.069 kg/m2 per year of age, respectively. The 10th percentile increased by 0.081 kg/m2 per birth year and by 0

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by Matteo Bottai, Edward A. Frongillo, Xuemei Sui, Jennifer R. O’neill, Robert E, Trudy L. Burns, Angela D. Liese, Steven N. Blair, Russell R. Pate
"... Objective—To examine associations among age, physical activity (PA), and birth cohort on body mass index (BMI) percentiles in men. Design and Methods—Longitudinal analyses using quantile regression were conducted among men with ≥ two examinations between 1970 and 2006 from the Aerobics Center Longit ..."
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. Inactive men gained weight significantly more rapidly than active men. At the 10th percentile, increases in BMI among inactive, moderately active, and highly active men were 0.092, 0.078, and 0.069 kg/m2 per year of age, respectively. The 10th percentile increased by 0.081 kg/m2 per birth year and by 0
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