Amos Golan

U.S. Navy Promotion and Retention by Race and Sex

January 1, 2010 • Working Papers • By Amos Golan, Jeffrey Perloff and William Greene

Abstract The Navy’s promotion-retention process involves two successive decisions: The Navy decides whether an individual is selected for promotion, and then, conditional on the Navy’s decision, the sailor decides whether…

Government Policy Effects on Urban and Rural Income Inequality

February 1, 2004 • Working Papers • By Amos Golan, Jeffrey Perloff and Xuming Wu

Abstract Do taxes, minimum wage laws, social insurance policies, and transfer programs affect rural and urban income distributions differently? Is income distributed less equally in urban than in rural areas?…

Effects of Government Policies on Income Distribution and Welfare

February 1, 2002 • Working Papers • By Amos Golan, Jeffrey Perloff and Ximing Wu

Abstract A parametric and a semiparametric model produce qualitatively similar estimates of government policy effects on income distribution and welfare (as measured by the Gini, standard deviation of logarithms, relative…

Welfare Effects of Minimum Wage and Other Government Policies

February 1, 2001 • Working Papers • By Amos Golan, Jeffrey Perloff and Ximing Wu

Abstract The minimum wage, unlike most government transfer programs, lowered welfare in the 1980s and 1990s as measured by all commonly used welfare or inequality measures, including various Atkinson indexes,…

Estimating a Mixed Strategy: United and American Airlines

June 1, 1998 • Working Papers • By Amos Golan, Jeffrey Perloff and Larry S. Karp

Abstract We develop a generalized maximum entropy estimator that can estimate pure and mixed strategies subject to restrictions from game theory. This method avoids distributional assumptions and is consistent and…