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Evaluating Continuous Training Programs Using the Generalized Propensity Score
Kluve, Jochen; Schneider, Hilmar; Uhlendorff, Arne; … - 2008
This paper assesses the dynamics of treatment effects arising from variation in the duration of training. We use German administrative data that have the extraordinary feature that the amount of treatment varies continuously from 10 days to 395 days (i.e. 13 months).This feature allows us to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014220677
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Trade openness, market competition, and inflation: Some sectoral evidence from OECD countries
Binici, Mahir; Cheung, Yin-Wong; Lai, Kon S. - 2011
This study evaluates the role market competition plays in determining inflation based on sector-level data from OECD countries. In theory, trade openness can affect inflation through changes in market competitiveness and productivity. Nonetheless, previous empirical studies often fail to account...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280812
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Trade openness, market competition, and inflation : some sectoral evidence from OECD countries
Binici, Mahir; Cheung, Yin-Wong; Lai, Kon-sun - 2011
This study evaluates the role market competition plays in determining inflation based on sector-level data from OECD countries. In theory, trade openness can affect inflation through changes in market competitiveness and productivity. Nonetheless, previous empirical studies often fail to account...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009489291
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Trade Openness, Market Competition, and Inflation : Some Sectoral Evidence from OECD Countries
Binici, Mahir - 2013
This study evaluates the role market competition plays in determining inflation based on sector-level data from OECD countries. In theory, trade openness can affect inflation through changes in market competitiveness and productivity. Nonetheless, previous empirical studies often fail to account...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013091833
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The Fertility Effect of Catastrophe : U.S. Hurricane Births
Evans, Richard W. - 2007
For years, anecdotal evidence has suggested increased fertility rates resulting from catastrophic events in an area. In this paper, we measure this fertility effect using storm advisory data and fertility data for the Atlantic and Gulf Coast counties of the United States. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776118
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Trade Openness, Market Competition, and Inflation: Some Sectoral Evidence from OECD Countries
Binici, Mahir; Cheung, Yin-Wong; Lai, Kon S. - CESifo - 2011
This study evaluates the role market competition plays in determining inflation based on sector-level data from OECD countries. In theory, trade openness can affect inflation through changes in market competitiveness and productivity. Nonetheless, previous empirical studies often fail to account...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009391719
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Trade Openness, Market Competition, and Inflation : Some Sectoral Evidence from OECD Countries
Binici, Mahir; Cheung, Yin-Wong; Lai, Kon S. - Türkiye Cumhuriyet Merkez Bankası - 2012
This study evaluates the role market competition plays in determining inflation based on sectorlevel data from OECD countries. In theory, trade openness can affect inflation through changes in market competitiveness and productivity. Nonetheless, previous empirical studies often fail to account...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009421805
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Empirical Exchange Rate Models of the Nineties; Are Any Fit to Survive?
Cheung, Yin-Wong; Pascual, Antonio Garcia; Chinn, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
We reassess exchange rate prediction using a wider set of models that have been proposed in the last decade. The performance of these models is compared against two reference specifications-purchasing power parity and the sticky-price monetary model. The models are estimated in first-difference...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263978
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The Heterogeneous Impact of Pension Income on Elderly Living Arrangements: Evidence from China's New Rural Pension Scheme
Cheng, Lingguo; Liu, Hong; Zhang, Ye; Zhao, Zhong - 2015
unique opportunity due to the recent establishment and expansion of the social pension system in rural China, we explicitly … highlight that living arrangement is multidimensional in rural China. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307335
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The Impact of Rural-Urban Migration on the Health of the Left-behind Parents
Ao, Xiang; Jiang, Dawei; Zhao, Zhong - 2015
Since the reform and opening up in 1978, China has begun a period of rapid industrialization and urbanization. Along … care of their parents. This paper uses the Rural Urban Migration in China data to empirically investigate the effect of … to complement the traditional family care in rural China. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401617