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This overview describes the development of methods for empirical research in the field of labor economics during the past four decades. This period is characterized by the use of micro data to answer policy relevant research question. Prominent in the literature is the search for exogenous...
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relatively long-run measures of child health. Identifying this causal relationship is complicated due to endogenous selection and …Food security and obesity represent two of the most significant public health issues. However, little is known about … misclassification. However, under relatively innocuous assumptions concerning the selection process, we often obtain bounds that …
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Many studies suggest that years of formal schooling completed is the most important correlate of good health. There is … much less consensus as to whether this correlation reflects causality from more schooling to better health. The … relationship may be traced in part to reverse causality and may also reflect "omitted third variables" that cause health and …
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proficiency and decision-making skills. These learning effects translate into effects on patient health, but only over the first …
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insurance are of large interest to economists. QTE are an intuitive tool to characterize the effects of these interventions on …
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score ; unconfoundedness ; selection on observables ; measurement error …
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, within a heterogeneous effect environment, and for the cases of a randomly assigned treatment and when selection into the …
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Whether interested in the differential impact of a particular factor in various institutional settings or in the heterogeneous effect of policy or random experiment, the empirical researcher confronts a problem if the factor of interest is correlated with an omitted variable. This paper...
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unemployment insurance on unemployment duration in Brazil, where we find strong evidence of manipulation at eligibility cutoffs. …
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We evaluate the impacts of a compulsory dialogue meeting for long-term sick-listed workers in Norway. The meeting is organised by the local social security administration after around six months of absence, and its purpose is to bring together the absentee, the employer, and the family physician...
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