Jeffrey S Zax
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 254880 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jeffrey S Zax |
| NOMBRES | Jeffrey S |
| APELLIDO | Zax |
| FIRMA | ZAX J S |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Colorado Boulder |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 140 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1989 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2012 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Single Regression Estimates of Voting Choices When Turnout is Unknown
This paper demonstrates that conventional single regression estimators of voting preferences for groups within the electorate are unreliable when group-specific turnout rates are unknown. In this context, the relationship between voting choices and the composition of the electorate is defined by two applications of Goodman’s Identity. Several methods appear in the scholarly and litigation literature which attempt to estimate characteristics of th…
China’s Missing Girls in the Three Decades from 1980 to 2010
Sex Ratios and Crime:Evidence from China's One-Child Policy * Sex ratios (males to females) rose markedly in China in the last two decades, and crime rates nearly doubled.This paper examines whether the two are causally linked.High sex ratios imply fewer married men, and marriage has been conjectured to be a socializing force.Our paper exploits the quasi-natural experiment generated by the Chinese one-child policy, a policy which is widely held t…
The Statistical Properties and Empirical Performance of Double Regression
Voting rights litigation requires ecological inference to estimate the voting preferences of minority and nonminority groups within the electorate. Double regression has been the procedure most commonly employed for this purpose. This article presents the first formal examination of this procedure. The underlying structural model reveals that double regression estimators are neither unbiased nor consistent estimators of true within-group vote pre…
The Demand for Medical Care in Urban China
Comment on “Estimating the Extent of Racially Polarized Voting in Multicandidate Contests” by Bernard Grofman and Michael Migalski
Double regression figures prominently in the analysis of racially polarized voting. Grofman and Migalski attempt three extensions of this technique: the application to multimember districts, the calculation of standard errors for the parameters of interest, and validation through comparisons with seemingly unrelated regression (SUR). All three extensions fail. The first is based on an arithmetical error. The second is based on an incomplete speci…
IQ, Academic Performance, Environment, and Earnings
This paper explores the effects of peers, friends, family, IQ, and academic performance, observed in the last year of high school, on earnings at ages 35 and 53. All significantly affect earnings at both ages. The effects of IQ are much smaller than asserted in, for example, The Bell Curve, and badly overstated in the absence of controls for family, wider context, or academic performance. Aspirations appear to be very important. Socialization and…
Latent Demand for Urban Housing in the People's Republic of China
Property Tax Rate Changes and Rates of Development
Commutes, quits, and moves
Compensation for commutes in labor and housing markets
The Substitution between Moves and Quits
Journal Article The Substitution between Moves and Quits Get access Jeffrey S. Zax Jeffrey S. Zax University of Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 101, Issue 409, 1 November 1991, Pages 1510–1521, https://doi.org/10.2307/2234900 Published: 01 November 1991
Race and commutes
Reform city councils and municipal employees
Today's Associations, Tomorrow's Unions
This paper investigates the effects of association-style unionism on union membership. In a 1984 Harris poll examining workers' attitudes toward various forms of employee organization, nearly half of all nonunion workers indicated they would join an association, but most of these potential association members said they would not vote for a union to serve as a bargaining agent. Analysis of census data on local government departments strongly sugge…
Bargaining Laws and Unionization in the Local Public Sector
This paper analyzes the effects of bargaining law characteristics on rates of unionization in over 10,000 local government departments, representing five different government services, that were without bargaining units in 1977. Duty-to-bargain laws significantly increased the probability of bargaining union formation between 1977 and 1982. The results of the analysis reject the hypotheses that this effect reflects only underlying union strength,…
Initiatives and government expenditures
Commutes, quits, and moves
Compensation for commutes in labor and housing markets
The Substitution between Moves and Quits
Journal Article The Substitution between Moves and Quits Get access Jeffrey S. Zax Jeffrey S. Zax University of Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 101, Issue 409, 1 November 1991, Pages 1510–1521, https://doi.org/10.2307/2234900 Published: 01 November 1991
Initiatives and government expenditures
Race and commutes
Latent Demand for Urban Housing in the People's Republic of China
Bargaining Laws and Unionization in the Local Public Sector
This paper analyzes the effects of bargaining law characteristics on rates of unionization in over 10,000 local government departments, representing five different government services, that were without bargaining units in 1977. Duty-to-bargain laws significantly increased the probability of bargaining union formation between 1977 and 1982. The results of the analysis reject the hypotheses that this effect reflects only underlying union strength,…
Today's Associations, Tomorrow's Unions
This paper investigates the effects of association-style unionism on union membership. In a 1984 Harris poll examining workers' attitudes toward various forms of employee organization, nearly half of all nonunion workers indicated they would join an association, but most of these potential association members said they would not vote for a union to serve as a bargaining agent. Analysis of census data on local government departments strongly sugge…
China’s Missing Girls in the Three Decades from 1980 to 2010
Sex Ratios and Crime:Evidence from China's One-Child Policy * Sex ratios (males to females) rose markedly in China in the last two decades, and crime rates nearly doubled.This paper examines whether the two are causally linked.High sex ratios imply fewer married men, and marriage has been conjectured to be a socializing force.Our paper exploits the quasi-natural experiment generated by the Chinese one-child policy, a policy which is widely held t…
The Demand for Medical Care in Urban China
Reform city councils and municipal employees
Property Tax Rate Changes and Rates of Development
Initiatives and government expenditures
Race and commutes
Reform city councils and municipal employees
Today's Associations, Tomorrow's Unions
This paper investigates the effects of association-style unionism on union membership. In a 1984 Harris poll examining workers' attitudes toward various forms of employee organization, nearly half of all nonunion workers indicated they would join an association, but most of these potential association members said they would not vote for a union to serve as a bargaining agent. Analysis of census data on local government departments strongly sugge…
Bargaining Laws and Unionization in the Local Public Sector
This paper analyzes the effects of bargaining law characteristics on rates of unionization in over 10,000 local government departments, representing five different government services, that were without bargaining units in 1977. Duty-to-bargain laws significantly increased the probability of bargaining union formation between 1977 and 1982. The results of the analysis reject the hypotheses that this effect reflects only underlying union strength,…
Commutes, quits, and moves
Compensation for commutes in labor and housing markets
The Substitution between Moves and Quits
Journal Article The Substitution between Moves and Quits Get access Jeffrey S. Zax Jeffrey S. Zax University of Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 101, Issue 409, 1 November 1991, Pages 1510–1521, https://doi.org/10.2307/2234900 Published: 01 November 1991
Property Tax Rate Changes and Rates of Development
Latent Demand for Urban Housing in the People's Republic of China
Comment on “Estimating the Extent of Racially Polarized Voting in Multicandidate Contests” by Bernard Grofman and Michael Migalski
Double regression figures prominently in the analysis of racially polarized voting. Grofman and Migalski attempt three extensions of this technique: the application to multimember districts, the calculation of standard errors for the parameters of interest, and validation through comparisons with seemingly unrelated regression (SUR). All three extensions fail. The first is based on an arithmetical error. The second is based on an incomplete speci…
IQ, Academic Performance, Environment, and Earnings
This paper explores the effects of peers, friends, family, IQ, and academic performance, observed in the last year of high school, on earnings at ages 35 and 53. All significantly affect earnings at both ages. The effects of IQ are much smaller than asserted in, for example, The Bell Curve, and badly overstated in the absence of controls for family, wider context, or academic performance. Aspirations appear to be very important. Socialization and…
The Demand for Medical Care in Urban China
The Statistical Properties and Empirical Performance of Double Regression
Voting rights litigation requires ecological inference to estimate the voting preferences of minority and nonminority groups within the electorate. Double regression has been the procedure most commonly employed for this purpose. This article presents the first formal examination of this procedure. The underlying structural model reveals that double regression estimators are neither unbiased nor consistent estimators of true within-group vote pre…
Single Regression Estimates of Voting Choices When Turnout is Unknown
This paper demonstrates that conventional single regression estimators of voting preferences for groups within the electorate are unreliable when group-specific turnout rates are unknown. In this context, the relationship between voting choices and the composition of the electorate is defined by two applications of Goodman’s Identity. Several methods appear in the scholarly and litigation literature which attempt to estimate characteristics of th…
China’s Missing Girls in the Three Decades from 1980 to 2010
Sex Ratios and Crime:Evidence from China's One-Child Policy * Sex ratios (males to females) rose markedly in China in the last two decades, and crime rates nearly doubled.This paper examines whether the two are causally linked.High sex ratios imply fewer married men, and marriage has been conjectured to be a socializing force.Our paper exploits the quasi-natural experiment generated by the Chinese one-child policy, a policy which is widely held t…
Economics (13 obras) · Political science (9 obras) · Business (6 obras) · Demographic economics (6 obras) · Labour economics (6 obras) · Econometrics (5 obras) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (5 obras) · Housing Market and Economics (5 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Mathematics (5 obras)