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Identification and Estimation of Causal Effects of Multiple Treatments Under the Conditional Independence Assumption

Lechner, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

The assumption that the assignment to treatments is ignorable conditional on attributes plays an important role in the applied statistic and econometric evaluation literature. Another term for it is conditional independence assumption. This paper discusses identification when there are more than...

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Sensitivity of Propensity Score Methods to the Specifications

Zhao, Zhong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Propensity score matching estimators have two advantages. One is that they overcome the curse of dimensionality of covariate matching, and the other is that they are nonparametric. However, the propensity score is usually unknown and needs to be estimated. If we estimate it nonparametrically, we...

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Moral Hypocrisy, Power and Social Preferences

Rustichini, Aldo; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We show with a laboratory experiment that individuals adjust their moral principles to the situation and to their actions, just as much as they adjust their actions to their principles. We first elicit the individuals’ principles regarding the fairness and unfairness of allocations in three...

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What Predicts a Successful Life? A Life-Course Model of Well-Being

Layard, Richard; Clark, Andrew E.; Cornaglia, Francesca; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

If policy-makers care about well-being, they need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by childhood influences, acting both directly and (indirectly) through adult circumstances. We estimate such a model using the British Cohort Study (1970). The most powerful childhood...

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Does Professional Development of Preschool Teachers Improve Child Socio-Emotional Outcomes?

Jensen, Bente; Jensen, Peter; Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

early childhood education by providing training to the preschool teachers. The purpose of the intervention is to improve … child socio-emotional outcomes (measured by SDQ), especially for socially disadvantaged children. The intervention … results show improvements in several subscales of the SDQ scale. However, the intervention proves less beneficial for socially …

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