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Health Care Expenditures in OECD Countries: A Panel Unit Root and Cointegration Analysis
Dreger, Christian; Reimers, Hans-Eggert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper investigates the link between health care expenditures and GDP for a sample of 21 OECD countries using recent developed panel cointegration techniques. In contrast to previous studies, the analysis accounts for the fact that health care expenditures are not only determined by income....
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The Impact of Oil Revenues on the Iranian Economy and the Gulf States
Dreger, Christian; Rahmani, Teymur - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
In line with the neoclassical growth model a persistent stream of oil revenues might have a long lasting impact on GDP per capita in oil exporting countries through higher investment activities. This relationship is explored for Iran and the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010757349
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International Migration with Heterogeneous Agents: Theory and Evidence
Brücker, Herbert; Schröder, Philipp J. H. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
International migration is characterized by two puzzling facts: First, only a small share of the population tends to migrate although substantial and persisting income differences across countries exist. Second, net migration rates tend to cease over time despite persisting income differences....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761921
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Do Foreigners Replace Native Immigrants? Evidence from a Panel Cointegration Analysis
Brücker, Herbert; Fachin, Stefano; Venturini, Alessandra - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper examines the impact of the immigration of foreigners on domestic labour mobility. Since David Card's seminal study on the regional labour market impact of the Mariel Boatlift it is controversial whether domestic labour mobility equilibrates economic conditions across cities and...
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Recent Developments in the Econometrics of Program Evaluation
Imbens, Guido W.; Wooldridge, Jeffrey M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Many empirical questions in economics and other social sciences depend on causal effects of programs or policies. In the last two decades much research has been done on the econometric and statistical analysis of the effects of such programs or treatments. This recent theoretical literature has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822300
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Causal Effects of Monetary Shocks: Semiparametric Conditional Independence Tests with a Multinomial Propensity Score
Angrist, Joshua; Kuersteiner, Guido M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
effects is based on a selection-on-observables assumption, non-causality amounts to the conditional independence of outcomes … a time series setting. This leads to a generalized definition of Sims (1980) causality. A technical contribution is the …
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Commuting Time and Labour Supply: A Causal Effect?
Giménez, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We analyze the causal effect of the length of the worker’s commute on worker's productivity, by examining whether commuting time has any effect on worker's labour market supply. Using the Spanish Time Use Survey 2002-03, our GMM/IV estimation yields a positive causal impact of commuting time...
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Integrating Personality Psychology into Economics
Heckman, James J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper reviews the problems and potential benefits of integrating personality psychology into economics. Economists have much to learn from and contribute to personality psychology.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009278194
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Causal Analysis after Haavelmo
Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Haavelmo's seminal 1943 paper is the first rigorous treatment of causality. In it, he distinguished the definition of … Acyclic Graphs (DAG) used in one influential recent approach to causality (Pearl, 2000) and in the related literature on … causality, a central contribution of Haavelmo (1944). In general cases, DAGs cannot be used to analyze models for simultaneous …
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Education and Cancer Risk
Leuven, Edwin; Plug, Erik; Rønning, Marte - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
There exists a strong educational gradient in cancer risk, which has been documented in a wide range of populations. Yet relatively little is known about the extent to which education is causally linked to cancer incidence and mortality. This paper exploits a large social experiment where an...
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