Tag Archives: Econometrics

Teen Sex and Econometrics

The Canadian Community Health Survey asks respondents "In the past 12 months, have you had sexual intercourse?". The overwhelming majority of 18 to 19 years, when asked that question, answered….

A rant on inverse hyperbolic sine transformations

Right now I'm handling most of the wealth papers submitted to Review of Economics of the Household. Wealth data is, almost invariably, messy. The distribution of wealth has a long, thick, right hand tail – a good number people have wealth holdings in the million dollar range (most owners of mortgage-free single detached homes in […]