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Finite sample evaluation of causal machine learning methods : guidelines for the applied researcher

Naghi, Andrea A.; Wirths, Christian P. - 2021

The econometrics literature proposed several new causal machine learning methods (CML) in the past few years. These methods harness the strength of machine learning methods to flexibly model the relationship between the treatment, outcome and confounders, while providing valid inferential...

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Will you still need me, will you still feed me when I'm 64? : the health impact of caregiving

Zwart, P. L. de; Bakx, P.; Van Doorslaer, Eddy - 2016

Informal care may substitute for formal long-term care that is often publicly funded or subsidized. The costs of informal caregiving are borne by the caregiver and may consist of worse health outcomes and, if the caregiver has not retired, worse labor market outcomes. We estimate the impact of...

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Living apart together : the economic value of ethnic diversity in cities

Bakens, Jessie; Florax, Raymond J. G. M.; Groot, Henri … - 2018

In consumer cities, the presence and location of immigrants impacts house prices through two channels, which both can be valued positively as well as negatively: (i) their presence and contribution to population diversity and (ii) the creation of immigrant-induced consumer amenities like those...

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On the effectiveness of child care centers in promoting child development in Ecuador

Rosero, José - 2012

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Effects on health on own and spousal employment and income using acute hospital admissions

García-Gomez, Pilar; Kippersluis, Hans van; O'Donnell, Owen - 2011

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Dynamic efficiency of product market competition

Hinloopen, Jeroen; Vandekerckhove, Jan - 2007

We consider the efficiency of Cournot and Bertrand equilibria in a duopoly with substitutable goods where firms invest …

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Mean and bold?

De Witte, Kristof; Dijkgraaf, Elbert - 2007

association started with a voluntary benchmarking aimed to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the sector. Secondly … efficiency of these two evolutions. In particular, we adapt Free Disposal Hull (FDH) to estimate robust and conditional non …-oriented efficiency estimates. Parametric COLS (Fourier) tests show the robustness of the model with respect to the specification and its …

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Efficiency effects of unit-based pricing systems and institutional choices of waste collection

Dijkgraaf, Elbert; Gradus, Raymond - 2014

Much attention has been paid to the influence of the institutional form of waste collection on costs. We extend this literature in three directions by including the unit-based pricing system. First, we show that unit-based pricing systems are more important from a cost-minimizing point of view...

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The trade-off between efficiency, effectiveness, and social feasiblity [feasibility] of regulating road transport externalities

Verhoef, Erik T.; Nijkamp, Peter; Rietveld, Piet - 1995

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Sub-optimal scale firms and compensating factor differentials in Dutch manufacturing

Audretsch, David B. (contributor) - 1995

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