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Causal Effects on Employment after First Birth: A Dynamic Treatment Approach

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Sommerfeld, Katrin; Steffes, Susanne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

The effects of childbirth on future labor market outcomes are a key issue for policy discussion. This paper implements a dynamic treatment approach to estimate the effect of having the first child now versus later on future employment for the case of Germany, a country with a long maternity...

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How to Control for Many Covariates? Reliable Estimators Based on the Propensity Score

Huber, Martin; Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

We investigate the finite sample properties of a large number of estimators for the average treatment effect on the treated that are suitable when adjustment for observable covariates is required, like inverse probability weighting, kernel and other variants of matching, as well as different...

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Does It Pay for Women to Volunteer?

Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper estimates the economic and non-economic returns to volunteering for prime-aged women. A woman's decision to engage in unpaid work, and to marry and have children, is formulated as a forward-looking discrete choice dynamic programming problem. Simulated maximum likelihood estimates of...

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Run for Fun: Intrinsic Motivation and Physical Performance

Filippin, Antonio; Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We use data from the 24-hours Belluno run which has the unique characteristic that participants are affiliated with teams and run for an hour. This allows us not only to study the individual relationship between age and performance but also to study group dynamics in terms of accessions to and...

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Attrition and Health in Ageing Studies: Evidence from ELSA and HRS

Banks, James; Muriel, Alastair; Smith, James P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

In this paper we present results of an investigation into observable characteristics associated with attrition in ELSA … and the HRS, with a particular focus on whether attrition is systematically related to health outcomes and socioeconomic … status (SES). Investigating the links between health and SES is one of the primary goals of the ELSA and HRS, so attrition …

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Sample Attrition in the Canadian Survey of Labor and Income Dynamics

Boudarbat, Brahim; Grenon, Lee - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper provides an analysis of the effects of attrition and non-response on employment and wages using the Canadian … Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics. We consider a structural model composed of three freely correlated equations for non-attrition … first wave of the 1996-2001 panel. The main findings of the paper are that attrition is not random. Attritors and non …

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Understanding the Drivers of Poverty Dynamics in Australian Households

Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Verick, Sher - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Using longitudinal household data and an econometric model of conditional poverty transitions, this paper contributes to the growing literature on poverty dynamics in Australian households. The results reveal that a range of household head, partner and demographic characteristics in addition to...

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Effects of Attrition and Non-Response in the Health and Retirement Study

Kapteyn, Arie; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Smith, James; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We study the effect of attrition and other forms of non-response on the representativity over time of the Health and …

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Treatment Evaluation with Multiple Outcome Periods under Endogeneity and Attrition

Frölich, Markus; Huber, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

instrument) in multiple periods based on inverse probability weighting. Treatment selection and attrition may depend on both … we find that controlling for attrition considerably affects the effect estimates. …

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Selective Migration and Health

Halliday, Timothy; Kimmitt, Michael C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

distribution reduces mobility by 32-40%. Non-random attrition from the panel implies that these are lower bounds. By contrast, we …

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