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A new approach to estimate the wage returns to work-related training

Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2002

This paper proposes a new approach to identify the wage effects of training. The idea is to narrow down the comparison group by only taking into consideration the workers who wanted to participate in training but did not do so because of some random event. The point estimate of the return to...

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WHO and for how long? : an empirical analysis of the consumers’ response to red meat warning

Carrieri, Vincenzo; Principe, Francesco - 2020

the 2015 WHO's warning about the carcinogenic effect of red meat consumption. We use high-frequency data and implement a … difference-in-difference-in-differences model which exploits the seasonality in red meat consumption and the heterogeneity in … with higher levels of education correctly reduced red meat consumption and over a longer period. Our findings suggest that …

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Time, money, peers, and parents : some data and theories on teenage behavior

Kooreman, Peter (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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The effects of lottery prizes on winners and their neighbors : evidence from the Dutch Postcode Lottery

Kuhn, Peter Joseph; Kooreman, Peter; Soetevent, Adriaan R. - 2010

Each week, the Dutch Postcode Lottery (PCL) randomly selects a postal code, and distributes cash and a new BMW to lottery participants in that code. We study the effects of these shocks on lottery winners and their neighbors. Consistent with the life-cycle hypothesis, the effects on winners’...

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Social insurance and health

Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2017

This chapter reviews the existing empirical evidence on how social insurance affects health. Social insurance encompasses programs primarily designed to insure against health risks, such as health insurance, sick leave insurance, accident insurance, long-term care insurance and disability...

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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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On nonparametric identification of treatment effects in duration models

Johansson, Per-Olov; Lee, Myoung-jae - 2016

We show that the main nonparametric identification finding of Abbring and Van den Berg (2003b, Econometrica) for the effect of a timing-chosen treatment on an event duration of interest does not hold. The main problem is that the identification is based on the competing-risks identification...

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Rebuttal of "on nonparametric identification of treatment effects in duration models"

Abbring, Jaap H.; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2016

In their IZA Discussion Paper 10247, Johansson and Lee claim that the main result (Proposition 3) in Abbring and Van den Berg (2003b) does not hold. We show that their claim is incorrect. At a certain point within their line of reasoning, they make a rather basic error while transforming one...

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Modelling low income transitions

Cappellari, Lorenzo; Jenkins, Stephen - 2002

We examine the determinants of low income transitions using first-order Markov models that control for initial conditions effects (those found to be poor in the base year may be a nonrandom sample) and for attrition (panel retention may also be non-random). Our econometric model is a form of...

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Programme evaluation with multiple treatments

Frölich, Markus - 2002

This paper reviews the main identification and estimation strategies for microeconomic policy evaluation. Particular emphasis is laid on evaluating policies consisting of multiple programmes, which is of high relevance in practice. For example, active labour market policies may consist of...

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