Andrew Muteti Musau

• Musau, Andrew (2024). Stata tip 153: Extracting text data from webpages. The Stata Journal. ISSN 1536-867X. 24(1), p. 169–173. doi: 10.1177/1536867X241233678.
• Musau, Andrew (2023). Review of Alan Acock's A gentle introduction to Stata, revised sixth edition. The Stata Journal. ISSN 1536-867X. 23(4), p. 1074–1081. doi: 10.1177/1536867X231212448.
• Krumer, Alexander & Musau, Andrew (2023). Golden Tears : a cross-country study of crying in the Olympics. Emotion. ISSN 1528-3542. 24(1), p. 27–38. doi: 10.1037/emo0001247. Show summary

  This article studies tears of joy by exploring data on the behavior of gold medalists of all 450 individual events at the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympic Games at the end of the medalists’ respective competitions and during the medal ceremonies. We find that women cry more than men, older athletes cry more than younger athletes, athletes from the host country cry more at the end of the competition, and athletes cry more when they receive information on their victory immediately after completing their task. When looking at the socioeconomic characteristics of athletes’ countries, we find that men from countries with larger female labor force participation rates cry more than men from countries with lower female labor force participation, and athletes from countries with higher religious fractionalization cry less than those from countries with lower fractionalization. Finally, we find no relationship between the wealth of a country and the propensity of its athletes of any gender to cry. We discuss possible mechanisms that drive our results and suggest future directions for observational studies on emotions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

• Furrebøe, Elise Frølich; Nyhus, Ellen K. & Musau, Andrew (2022). Gender differences in recollections of economic socialization, financial self-efficacy, and financial literacy. Journal of Consumer Affairs. ISSN 0022-0078. 57(1), p. 69–91. doi: 10.1111/joca.12490. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The OECD/INFE international surveys of adult financial literacy (OECD/INFE 2016, 2020) show gender differences in financial literacy in developed countries in Europe. In this study, we examine whether these differences can be explained by gender differences in parental economic socialization using the Dutch 2018 DHS household survey. We investigate whether respondents' recollection of economic socialization when young predict their adult economic behavior and self-assessed financial knowledge. The results from ordinal logit and logistic regressions and for nonlinear equations decompositions reveal gender differences in the recollection of economic socialization and in how socialization practices are related to economic behavior and self-assessed financial knowledge. Men have to a greater degree than women been socialized in terms of having paid work outside the home, while women more often than men report that their parents controlled their spending. Moreover, we find gender differences in how men and women benefitted from the same socialization practices.

• Musau, Andrew (2021). Stata tip 143: Creating donut charts in Stata. The Stata Journal. ISSN 1536-867X. 21(4), p. 1069–1073. doi: 10.1177/1536867X211063414.
• Musau, Andrew; Kumbhakar, Subal Chandra; Mydland, Ørjan & Lien, Gudbrand (2020). Determinants of allocative and technical inefficiency in stochastic frontier models: An analysis of Norwegian electricity distribution firms. European Journal of Operational Research. ISSN 0377-2217. 288, p. 983–991. doi: 10.1016/j.ejor.2020.06.023. Show summary

  Recent econometric advances have made it possible to distinguish between persistent and transient tech- nical inefficiency along with allocative inefficiency in stochastic frontier models for panel data. Kumb- hakar et al. (2020) and Lai and Kumbhakar (2019) introduce a methodology that allows for the estimation of these inefficiency components and costs therefrom, while including determinants of both components of technical inefficiency. We extend these models to include technical change and determinants of al- locative inefficiency (input misallocation). Including a set of variables that influence input misallocation, we are able to determine the effects of these variables on the cost of allocative inefficiency. We provide empirical evidence on the costs of all three types of inefficiency using data on 149 Norwegian electricity distribution firms between 20 0 0 and 2016. We find that the cost of input misallocation is only slightly lower than that of technical inefficiency. Our results reject a commonly imposed modeling assumption that firms are fully allocatively efficient.

• Musau, Andrew (2020). Stata tip 136: Between-group comparisons in a scatter plot with weighted markers. The Stata Journal. ISSN 1536-867X. 20(2), p. 489–492. doi: 10.1177/1536867X20931008.
• Kumbhakar, Subal Chandra; Mydland, Ørjan; Musau, Andrew & Lien, Gudbrand (2020). Disentangling Costs of Persistent and Transient Technical Inefficiency and Input Misallocation: The Case of Norwegian Electricity Distribution Firms. Energy Journal. ISSN 0195-6574. 41(3), p. 143–160. doi: 10.5547/01956574.41.3.skum.
• Musau, Andrew & Veka, Steinar Svartskuren (2018). Crude oil trade and current account deficits: replication and extension. Empirical Economics. ISSN 0377-7332. doi: 10.1007/s00181-018-1522-8.
• Musau, Andrew (2018). A Replication Study of "Openness, Country Size, and Government Size" (Journal of Public Economics 2009). Public Finance Review. ISSN 1091-1421. p. 1–18. doi: 10.1177/1091142118765786.
• Capizzani, Mario; Mittone, Luigi; Musau, Andrew & Vaccaro, Antonino (2017). Anticipated Communication in the Ultimatum Game. Games. ISSN 2073-4336. 8(3). doi: 10.3390/g8030029.
• Musau, Andrew (2014). The Place of Mathematical Models in Psychology and the Social Sciences. American Psychologist. ISSN 0003-066X. 69(6), p. 632–633. doi: 10.1037/a0037068.
• Güth, Werner; Mugera, Harriet; Musau, Andrew & Ploner, Matteo (2014). Deterministic versus probabilistic consequences of trust and trustworthiness: An experimental investigation. Journal of Economic Psychology. ISSN 0167-4870. 42, p. 28–40. doi: 10.1016/j.joep.2013.11.003.
• Musau, Andrew (2014). Hyperbolic discount curves: a reply to Ainslie. Theory and Decision. ISSN 0040-5833. 76(1), p. 9–30. doi: 10.1007/s11238-013-9361-8.

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• Lien, Gudbrand; Mydland, Ørjan; Musau, Andrew & Kumbhakar, Subal (2019). Including determinants of allocative and technical inefficiency in a stochastic frontier analysis framework.
• Kumbhakar, Subal Chandra; Mydland, Ørjan; Musau, Andrew & Lien, Gudbrand (2018). Disentangling persistent and transient technical and allocative inefficiency: The case of Norwegian electricity distribution firms.
• Musau, Andrew; Nyhus, Ellen K. & Webley, Paul (2015). Saving motives and saving behaviour.

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