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mhbounds - Sensitivity Analysis for Average Treatment Effects

Becker, Sascha O.; Caliendo, Marco - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

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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One Last Puff?: Public Smoking Bans and Smoking Behavior

Anger, Silke; Kvasnicka, Michael; Siedler, Thomas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

This paper investigates the short-term effects of public smoking bans on individual smoking behavior. In 2007 and 2008, state-level smoking bans were gradually introduced in all of Germany's sixteen federal states. We exploit this variation in the timing of state bans to identify the effect that...

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Self-Selection and the Returns to Geographic Mobility: What Can Be Learned from the German Reunification "Experiment"

Zaiceva, Anzelika - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

This paper investigates the causal effect of geographic labour mobility on income. The returns to German East-West migration and commuting are estimated exploiting the structure of centrally planned economies and a "natural experiment" of German reunification for identification. I find that...

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Childhood Family Structure and Schooling Outcomes: Evidence for Germany

Francesconi, Marco; Jenkins, Stephen P.; Siedler, Thomas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

We analyse the impact on schooling outcomes of growing up in a family headed by a single mother. Growing up in a non-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common unobserved determinants of family structure and...

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Unobservable, but Unimportant?: The Influence of Personality Traits (and Other Usually Unobserved Variables) for the Evaluation of Labor Market Policies

Caliendo, Marco; Mahlstedt, Robert; Mitnik, Oscar A. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014

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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Differential Taxation and Firms' Financial Leverage: Evidence from the Introduction of a Flat Tax on Interest Income

Fossen, Frank M.; Simmler, Martin - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

-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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The Influence of Conflict on the Demand for Education in the Basque Region

Groot, Olaf J. de; Göksel, Idil - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

It has previously been shown that civil conflict influences many economic factors, including education, which play an important role in development and economic growth. Previous authors working on the influence of conflict on education have, however, always focused strongly on the supply-side...

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Telling the Truth May Not Pay Off

Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

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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Kausalanalyse durch Matchingverfahren

Gangl, Markus; DiPrete, Thomas A. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004

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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Too Bad to Benefit?: Effect Heterogeneity of Public Training Programs

Rinne, Ulf; Schneider, Marc; Uhlendorff, Arne - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

propensity score matching methods we extend the picture that has been sketched in previous studies by estimating treatment …

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