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From micro data to causality : forty years of empirical labor economics

Klaauw, Bas van der - 2014

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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Partial identification of the long-run causal effect of food security on child health

Millimet, Daniel L.; Roy, Manan - 2013

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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The relationship between health and schooling : what's new?

Grossman, Michael - 2015

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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Learning-by-doing and productivity growth among high-skilled workers: evidence from the treatment of heart attacks

Lundborg, Petter; James, Stefan; Lagerqvist, Bo; … - 2021

proficiency and decision-making skills. These learning effects translate into effects on patient health, but only over the first …

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Quantile treatment effects in the regression discontinuity design : process results and gini coefficient

Frölich, Markus; Melly, Blaise - 2010

insurance are of large interest to economists. QTE are an intuitive tool to characterize the effects of these interventions on …

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The elephant in the corner : a cautionary tale about measurement error in treatment effects models

Millimet, Daniel L. - 2010

score ; unconfoundedness ; selection on observables ; measurement error …

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Exogenous treatment and endogenous factors : vanishing of omitted variable bias on the interaction term

Nizalova, Olena; Murtazashvili, Irina - 2012

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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Identification and inference in regression discontinuity designs with a manipulated running variable

Gerard, François; Rokkanen, Miikka; Rothe, Christoph - 2015

unemployment insurance on unemployment duration in Brazil, where we find strong evidence of manipulation at eligibility cutoffs. …

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Can compulsory dialogues nudge sick-listed workers back to work?

Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut; Schreiner, Ragnhild C. - 2015

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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Endogeneity and non-response bias in treatment evaluation : nonparametric identification of causal effects by instruments

Fricke, Hans; Frölich, Markus; Huber, Martin; Lechner, … - 2015

a Swiss University in order to estimate the effect of gym training on students' self-assessed health. The treatment (gym …

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