William C. Horrace
Associate Professor of Economics, Syracuse University

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Welcome to BILLSTOR, an archive of my scholarly output. For copyrighted publications, hold the mouse over to read abstracts, click for published texts (if you have access), or click to receive electronic copies via email. For forthcoming publications and unpublished papers, click to read full texts.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Ranking inequality: applications of multivariate subset selection
Journal of Economic Inequality, 6 (2008): 5-32 (lead article).
Identifying technically efficient fishing vessels: a non-empty, minimal subset approach
Journal of Applied Econometrics, 22 (2007): 729-745.

Fixed-effect estimation of technical efficiency with time-invariant dummies
Economics Letters, 95 (2007): 247-252.
Inter-industry gender wage gaps by knowledge intensity: discrimination and technology in Korea
Applied Economics, (forthcoming).
The impact of New Deal expenditures on mobility during the Great Depression
Explorations in Economic History, 43 (2006): 179-222 (lead article).

Results on the bias and inconsistency of ordinary least squares for the linear probability model
Economics Letters, 90 (2006): 321-327.

Selection procedures for economics
Applied Economics Quarterly,  52(2006): 357-374.
On ranking and selection from independent truncated normal distributions
Journal of Econometrics, 126 (2005): 335-354.

Some results on the multivariate truncated normal distribution
Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 94 (2005): 209-221. 

The determinants of life expectancy: an analysis of the OECD health data
Southern Economic Journal, 71 (2005): 768-783. 

Did New Deal grant programs stimulate local economies? A study of federal grants and retail sales during the Great Depression
Journal of Economic History, 65 (2005): 36-71.

On the ranking uncertainty of labor market wage gaps
Journal of Population Economics, 18 (2005): 181-187. 

Habitat destruction by collectors associated with decreased abundance of rock-dwelling lizards
Biological Conservation, 125 (2005): 47-54. 

Ranking and selection of motor carrier safety performance by commodity
Accident Analysis & Prevention, 36 (2004): 953-960. 

Generalized moments estimation for spatial panel data: Indonesian rice farming
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 86 (2004): 185-198. 

Technical efficiency of Australian wool production: point and confidence interval estimates
Journal of Productivity Analysis, 20 (2003):
169-190


Inter-industry wage differentials and the gender wage gap: an identification problem
Industrial & Labor Relations Review, 54 (2001): 611-618. 

Multiple comparisons with the best, with economic applications
Journal of Applied Econometrics, 15 (2000): 1-26 (lead article). 

Sampling errors and confidence intervals for order statistics: implementing the Family Support Act and Welfare Reform
Journal of Economic & Social Measurement, 24 (1998): 181-207. 

Tables of percentage points of the k-variate normal distribution for large values of k
Communications in Statistics: Simulation & Computation, 27 (1998): 823-831. 

Submodel estimation of a structural vector error correction model under cointegration
Economics Letters, 59 (1998): 23-29. 

Confidence statements for efficiency estimates from stochastic frontier models
Journal of Productivity Analysis, 7 (1996): 257-282. 

 

Problems, Solutions, Discussions, Chapters, and Entries

Stochastic frontier analysis
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, Vol. 8, Thomson/Gale Publications, Farmington Hills, MI (2008):148-149. 

Identification problem
Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods, Vol. II, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA (2004): 474-475. 

The characteristic function from a family of truncated normal distributions
Econometric Theory, Problem 01.5.2, 17 (2001): 1026. 

State space vs. econometric techniques for forecasting monthly urban water demand - Closure
Journal of Water Resources Planning & Management, 125 (1999): 241-242. 

 

Working Papers in Various Stages of Development

Semiparametric Deconvolution with Unknown Error Variance

Occupational Risk and Fisheries Management: Studying Changes in the Deadliest Catch

Strategic Substitutes or Complements? The Game of Where to Fish

A Monte Carlo Study of Efficiency Estimates from Frontier Models

A Critical Reanalysis of Maryland State Police Searches

Fixed-Effect Estimation of Highly-Mobile Production Technologies

Estimating Heterogeneous Capacity and Capacity Utilization in a Multi-Species Fishery

Estimating Heterogeneous Production in Fisheries

Conjectures on MCB and MCC Subsets

Bootstrapping Efficiency Probabilities in Parametric Stochastic Frontier Models

New Wine in Old Bottles: a Sequential Estimation Technique for the LPM

New State-Level Estimates of Dynamic Cigarette Demand

The Origins of Modern Housing Finance: the Impact of Federal Housing Programs during the Great Depression

Distributional Assumptions and OLS bias in the LPM