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Social Experiments and Instrumental Variables with Duration Outcomes

Abbring, Jaap H.; Berg, Gerard J. van den - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

This paper examines the empirical analysis of treatment effects on duration outcomes from data that contain instrumental variation. We focus on social experiments in which an intention to treat is randomized and compliance may be imperfect. We distinguish between cases where the treatment starts...

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The Effect of the Theo van Gogh Murder on House Prices in Amsterdam

Gautier, Pieter A.; Siegmann, Arjen; Vuuren, Aico van - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

This paper estimates the impact of the murder of film maker Theo van

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Measuring Externalities in Program Evaluation

Janssens, Wendy - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

Impact evaluations of development programmes usually focus on a comparison of participants with a control group. However, if the programme generates externalities for non-participants such an approach will capture only part of the programme’s impact. Based on a unique large-scale quantitative...

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The Event-History Approach to Program Evaluation

Abbring, Jaap H. - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

This paper studies the event-history approach to microeconometric program

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The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurship Competencies and Intentions

Oosterbeek, Hessel; Praag, Mirjam van; IJsselstein, Auke - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

This paper analyzes the impact of a leading entrepreneurship education program on college students’ entrepreneurship competencies and intentions using an instrumental variables approach in a difference-in-differences framework. We exploit that the program was offered to students at one...

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Agglomeration Externalities and Localized Employment Growth

Vor, Friso de; Groot, Henri L.F. de - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

This paper addresses the question to what extent the performance of industrial sites is affected by their local economic structure and accessibility. For this aim, we test for the existence of statistically significant relationships between agglomeration externalities (specialization, diversity,...

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Job Search Requirements for Older Unemployed: Transitions to Employment, Early Retirement and Disability Benefits

Bloemen, Hans; Hochguertel, Stefan; Lammers, Marloes - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

In this paper, we use a recent policy change in the Netherlands to study how changes in search requirements for the older unemployed affect their transition rates to employment, early retirement and sickness/disability benefits. The reform, becoming effective on January 1st 2004, required the...

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The Power of Weather: Some Empirical Evidence on Predicting Day-ahead Power Prices through Day-ahead Weather Forecasts

Huurman, Christian; Ravazzolo, Francesco; Zhou, Chen - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

In the literature the effects of weather on electricity sales are well-documented. However, studies that have investigated the impact of weather on electricity prices are still scarce (e.g. Knittel and Roberts, 2005), partly because the wholesale power markets have only recently been...

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Private Capital Flows to Low Income Countries: Country-Specific Effects and the Lucas Paradox

Wijnbergen, Sweder van; Franken, Corine - Tinbergen Institute - 2010

This paper analyses Net Private Capital Flows to LICs incorporating the recent surge in FDI between 2000 and 2006. We show that including country-specific effects in a paneldata setup resolves the Lucas Paradox, at least for LICs. Our results suggest that openness is among the most important...

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Stock Index Volatility Forecasting with High Frequency Data

Hol, Eugenie; Koopman, Siem Jan - Tinbergen Institute - 2002

improved ex-post volatility measurements but has also inspired research into their potential value as an informa-tion source … for longer horizon volatility forecasts. In this paper we explore the forecasting value of these high fre-quency series in … conjunction with a variety of volatility models for returns on the Standard & Poor's 100 stock index. We consider two so …

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