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Understanding rising income inequality in Germany
Biewen, Martin; Juhasz, Andos - 2010
We examine the causes for rising income inequality in Europe’s most populous economy. From 2000 to 2006, Germany … experienced an unprecedented rise in net equivalized income inequality and poverty. At the same time, unemployment rose to record …. Other factors that possibly contributed to the rise in income inequality were changes in the tax system, changes in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008688886
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A complete framework for model-free difference-in-differences estimation
Henderson, Daniel J.; Sperlich, Stefan - 2022
We propose a complete framework for model-free difference-in-differences analysis with covariates, where model-free means data-driven, in particular nonparametric estimation and testing, variable and scale choice. We start with searching for the preferred data setup by simultaneously choosing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013471352
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Survey under-coverage of top incomes and estimation of inequality : what is the role of the UK's SPI adjustment?
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen - 2017
Survey under-coverage of top incomes leads to bias in survey-based estimates of overall income inequality. Using income … how it affects estimates of overall income inequality. More generally, we assess whether the SPI adjustment is fit for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011703644
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Get training or wait? : Long-run employment effects of training programs for the unemployed in West Germany
Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor);  … - 2006
Long-term public sector sponsored training programs often show little or negative short-run employment effects and often it is not possible to assess whether positive long-run effects exist. Based on unique administrative data, this paper estimates the long-run differential employment effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003323169
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US unemployment duration : has long become longer or short become shorter?
Machado, José A. F. (contributor);  … - 2006
The U.S. labor market has been experiencing unprecedented high average unemployment duration. The shift in the unemployment duration distribution can be traced back to the early nineties. In this study, censored quantile regression methods are employed to analyze the changes in the US...
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Optimal bandwidth choice for the regression discontinuity estimator
Imbens, Guido; Kalyanaraman, Karthik - 2009
We investigate the problem of optimal choice of the smoothing parameter (bandwidth) for the regression discontinuity estimator. We focus on estimation by local linear regression, which was shown to be rate optimal (Porter, 2003). Investigation of an expected-squared-error-loss criterion reveals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003809023
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New evidence on the finite sample properties of propensity score matching and reweighting estimators
Busso, Matias; DiNardo, John E.; McCrary, Justin - 2009
Currently available asymptotic results in the literature suggest that matching estimators have higher variance than reweighting estimators. The extant literature comparing the finite sample properties of matching to specific reweighting estimators, however, has concluded that reweighting...
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A martingale representation for matching estimators
Abadie, Alberto; Imbens, Guido - 2009
Matching estimators are widely used in statistical data analysis. However, the distribution of matching estimators has been derived only for particular cases (Abadie and Imbens, 2006). This article establishes a martingale representation for matching estimators. This representation allows the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003826104
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Evaluating nonexperimental estimators for multiple treatments : evidence from experimental data
Flores, Carlos; Mitnik, Oscar A. - 2009
This paper assesses the effectiveness of unconfoundedness-based estimators of mean effects for multiple or multivalued treatments in eliminating biases arising from nonrandom treatment assignment. We evaluate these multiple treatment estimators by simultaneously equalizing average outcomes among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003901174
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How much should we trust linear instrumental variables estimators? : an application to family size and children's education
Mogstad, Magne; Wiswall, Matthew - 2009
Many empirical studies specify outcomes as a linear function of endogenous regressors when conducting instrumental variable (IV) estimation. We show that tests for treatment effects, selection bias, and treatment effect heterogeneity are biased if the true relationship is non-linear. These...
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