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more likely to have private health insurance. Larger winners are also more likely to drop coverage earlier, possibly after …We exploit lottery wins to investigate the effects of exogenous changes to individuals' income on health care demand in … the United Kingdom. This strategy allows us to estimate lottery income elasticities for a range of health care services …
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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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We assess the effectiveness of Job Corps (JC), the largest job training program targeting disadvantaged youth in the United States, by constructing nonparametric bounds for the average and quantile treatment effects of the program on wages. Our preferred estimates point toward convincing...
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that selection into different lengths of exposure is based on a rich set of observed covariates. We find that participants …
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We derive nonparametric sharp bounds on average treatment effects with an instrumental variable (IV) and use them to evaluate the effectiveness of the Job Corps (JC) training program for disadvantaged youth. We concentrate on the population average treatment effect (ATE) and the average...
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-quality administrative data from Luxembourg. We address selection into training by exploiting the rich administrative information available …
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addressing three pervasive problems simultaneously: self-selection into the spell of interest, endogenous censoring of the … and selection. Instead, they employ monotonicity and stochastic dominance assumptions. To illustrate the use of these …
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This paper analyzes the relationship between higher education and body weight and smoking behavior among women in Turkey. We exploit the largely exogenous and substantial increase in the openings of universities throughout Turkey. Based on the spatial and temporal variability of university...
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This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The … attainment to investigate the impact of education on body mass index, obesity, smoking behavior, and self-rated health, as well … statistically significant favorable effect of education on health outcomes and behavior. However, this relationship becomes …
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, the transition into DST deteriorates sleep and increases time stress, which in turn affects physical and emotional health …
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