Researchers as well as policymakers often view self-employment as an important factor behind innovation and economic growth and policies that foster self-employment has been on the agenda in several European countries during the last decades. The Jack-of-all-trades theory argues that individuals with a balanced set of skills are more suitable for selfemployment than others. In this paper we tes...

This paper discusses statistical methods for estimating complex correlation structure from large pharmacogenomic datasets. We selectively review several prominent statistical methods for estimating large covariance matrix for understanding correlation structure, inverse covariance matrix for network modeling, large-scale simultaneous tests for selecting significantly differently expressed genes...

Estimation of Semiparametric Models in the Presence of Endogeneity and Sample Selection Siddhartha Chib, Edward Greenberg and Ivan Jeliazkov Siddhartha Chib is Harry C. Hartkopf Professor of Econometrics and Statistics, Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130 . Edward Greenberg is Professor Emeritus of Economics, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Loui...

We resolve competing explanations for bolstering (dissonance, endowment, pre-choice distortion) in an experiment directly manipulating whether or not a subject freely chooses the evaluated item. We then separately model the effects of pre-choice distortions on selection and on bolstering of an item given that it is chosen, while accounting for endogeneity present in the data. Our results genera...

Migration experience has a profound impact on psychological health and well-being, but relatively little is known about how spatial relocation affects turnover intention in the labor market. This study attempted to examine effects of migration intention. Using individual-level survey data people's career development from Japan, we verified central hypothesis that internal positive later by empl...