James B McDonald

Biographic Data

ID6788517
NAMEJames B McDonald
GIVEN NAMESJames B
FAMILY NAMEMcDonald
SIGNATUREMCDONALD J B
AFFILIATIONSBrigham Young University
ORCID0000-0002-3919-5058
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1984
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
H-INDEX1

  • Instrumental Variables Estimation With Flexible Distributions

    Christian Hansen, James B McDonald et al.ARTICLEJournal of Business and Economic…2010

    Instrumental variables are often associated with low estimator precision. This article explores efficiency gains that might be achievable using moment conditions that are nonlinear in the disturbances and are based on flexible parametric families for error distributions. We show that these estimators can achieve the semiparametric efficiency bound when the true error distribution is a member of the parametric family. Monte Carlo simulations demon…

  • Some Generalized Functions for the Size Distribution of Income

    James B McDonaldCHAPTERModeling Income Distributions and…2008

  • The impact of taxes and transfer payments on the distribution of income

    Open AccessSamuel Dastrup, Rachel Hartshorn et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Economic Inequality2007Cited by: 2

  • Estimating Aggregate Automotive Income Elasticities From the Population Income-Share Elasticity

    Robert F Bordley, James B McDonaldARTICLEJournal of Business and Economic…1993

    The conventional approach to estimating the income responsiveness of a product's sales involves collecting data on sales as a function of income and product prices and then estimating a demand model. In many cases, it is very difficult to either collect the required data or reliably estimate the demand model. This article develops an alternative approach toward estimating these income-responsiveness parameters using only the average income of the…

  • Robust and Partially Adaptive Estimation of Regression Models

    Ronald J Butler, Richard J Butler et al.ARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…1990

    Richard J. Butler, James B. McDonald, Ray D. Nelson, Steven B. White, Robust and Partially Adaptive Estimation of Regression Models, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 72, No. 2 (May, 1990), pp. 321-327

  • Dictionary and Classified Bibliography of Statistical Distributions in Scientific Work

    James B McDonald, G P Patil et al.ARTICLEJournal of Business and Economic…1987

  • Interdistributional Income Inequality

    Ronald J Butler, Richard J Butler et al.ARTICLEJournal of Business and Economic…1987

    Incomplete moments are used to characterize income inequality and provide the basis for interdistributional Lorenz curves. Four measures of interdistributional inequality are considered and seen to be related to an interdistributional welfare interpretation. Based upon these measures, there has been a significant secular decline in interdistributional inequality between blacks and whites over the past 30 years

  • Some Generalized Mixture Distributions with an Application to Unemployment Duration

    James B McDonald, Ronald J Butler et al.ARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…1987

    James B. McDonald, Richard J. Butler, Some Generalized Mixture Distributions with an Application to Unemployment Duration, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 69, No. 2 (May, 1987), pp. 232-240

  • Trends in Unemployment Duration Data

    Ronald J Butler, Richard J Butler et al.ARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…1986

    A method of estimating the distribution of uninterrupted unemploymentspells from aggregate unemployment data is outlined. The methodology does not i mpose constant individual hazard rates and allows for heterogeneity. Characteris tics of the distribution of unemployment spells are then considered including ha zard rates, measures of inequality such as Gini coefficients, and the fraction o f total unemployment associated with S weeks of unemploy-m…

  • Some Generalized Functions for the Size Distribution of Income

    James B McDonaldARTICLEEconometrica1984