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Heckman, James J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

parameters are defined and identified to address specific policy problems. Economists embrace a scientific approach to causality …. Anticipated and realized subjective and objective outcomes are distinguished. Models for simultaneous causality are developed. The … paper contrasts the Neyman-Rubin model of causality with the econometric approach. …

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

Zaiceva, Anzelika - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper investigates the causal effect of geographic 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 the...

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Health and Wealth of Elderly Couples: Causality Tests Using Dynamic Panel Data Models

Michaud, Pierre-Carl; van Soest, Arthur - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

analyzes causality from health to wealth (health causation) and from wealth to health (wealth or social causation) for elderly … recently developed strategy using Granger causality tests of Adams et al. (2003, Journal of Econometrics) with tests for … causality in dynamic panel data models incorporating unobserved heterogeneity. While Adams et al. tests reject the hypothesis of …

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Moving the Goalposts: Addressing Limited Overlap in Estimation of Average Treatment Effects by Changing the Estimand

Crump, Richard K.; Hotz, V. Joseph; Imbens, Guido W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Estimation of average treatment effects under unconfoundedness or exogenous treatment assignment is often hampered by lack of overlap in the covariate distributions. This lack of overlap can lead to imprecise estimates and can make commonly used estimators sensitive to the choice of...

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Mental Health and Labour Market Participation: Evidence from IV Panel Data Models

Frijters, Paul; Johnston, David W.; Shields, Michael A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

effectively control for the two-way causality between work and health and the existence of unobserved individual characteristics …

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Policy Evaluation and Economic Policy Advice

Schmidt, Christoph M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

emergence of systematic policy evaluation, with its distinct focus on the establishment of causality. By contrast to the natural …

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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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Robust Confidence Intervals for Average Treatment Effects under Limited Overlap

Rothe, Christoph - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Estimators of average treatment effects under unconfounded treatment assignment are known to become rather imprecise if there is limited overlap in the covariate distributions between the treatment groups. But such limited overlap can also have a detrimental effect on inference, and lead for...

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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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Matching Methods in Practice: Three Examples

Imbens, Guido W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

There is a large theoretical literature on methods for estimating causal effects under unconfoundedness, exogeneity, or selection-on-observables type assumptions using matching or propensity score methods. Much of this literature is highly technical and has not made inroads into empirical...

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