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Following the outbreak of the Second Intifada in 2000, Israel imposed severe restrictions on the employment of Palestinians within its borders. We study the effect of this policy change on the involvement of West Bank Palestinians in fatal confrontations during the first phase of the Intifada....
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We evaluate three policy reforms targeted at older unemployed people: (i) an hourly wage subsidy, (ii) an in-work credit, and (iii) a subsidy of social security contributions on low wages. The work incentive, labour supply and welfare effects of these hypothetical reforms are analysed on the...
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Many commonly used treatment effects estimators rely on the unconfoundedness assumption (“selection on observables") which is fundamentally non-testable. When evaluating the effects of labor market policies, researchers need to observe variables that affect both treatment participation and...
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-in-difference matching strategy based on firm level panel data. In addition, we implement a more structural approach with a tax rate …
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We investigate the matching algorithm used by the German central clearinghouse for university admissions (ZVS) in … criteria applied for admission they all make use of priority matching. In priority matching schemes, it is not a dominant … applicants, we are able to detect some amount of strategic behaviour which can lead to inefficient matching. Alternative ways to …
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Having close linkages with the counterfactual concept of causality, nonparametric matching estimators have recently … causal model (RCM), the paper discusses the implementation of counterfactual analyses by propensity score matching methods … underlying matching methods relative to standard regression analysis. We then illustrate the application of matching estimators …
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Matching has become a popular approach to estimate average treatment effects. It is based on the conditional … matching estimators are not robust. We address this problem with the bounding approach proposed by Rosenbaum (2002), where … to undermine the implications of the matching analysis. …
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propensity score matching methods we extend the picture that has been sketched in previous studies by estimating treatment …
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terms of false positive and false negative rates. The five independent matching exercises also shed light on the potential … returns from hierarchical and pooled matching. …
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propensity score matching to address issues of endogeneity and sample selection. When the estimation is done for the whole …
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