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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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, within a heterogeneous effect environment, and for the cases of a randomly assigned treatment and when selection into the …
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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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We analyze the short- and long-term effects of the U.S. Vietnam-era military service on veterans' health outcomes using … a restricted version of the National Health Interview Survey 1974-2013 and employing the draft lotteries as an …, satisfy the exclusion restriction by placing bounds on its net or direct effect on the health outcomes of individuals who are …
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We estimate the effect of BMI on mental health for young adults and elderly individuals using data from the National … Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and the Health & Retirement Study. To tackle confounding due to unobserved factors, we … attainment) that may invalidate this IV. We find a large statistically significant effect of BMI on mental health for the elderly …
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