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Banks and innovation : microeconometric evidence on Italian firms
Benfratello, Luigi (contributor);  … - 2006
In this paper we investigate the effect of local banking development on firms' innovative activities, using a rich data set on innovation for a large number of Italian firms over the 1990's. There is evidence that banking development affects the probability of process innovation, particularly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003297705
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Paid family leave, fathers' leave-taking, and leave-sharing in dual-earner households
Bartel, Ann; Rossin-Slater, Maya; Ruhm, Christopher J.; … - 2015
difference-in-difference-in-difference designs, we study California's Paid Family Leave (CA-PFL) program, which is the first … California are 0.9 percentage points – or 46 percent relative to the pre-treatment mean – more likely to take leave in the first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388329
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The impacts of paid family leave benefits : regression kink evidence from California administrative data
Bana, Sarah; Bedard, Kelly; Rossin-Slater, Maya - 2018
administrative data from California together with a regression kink (RK) design to estimate the causal impacts of benefits in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011810214
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Labor market conditions and post-reform declines in welfare receipt among immigrants
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bean, Frank D. - 2001
lowered immigrant participation, and others have argued that this is true only in California. This paper analyzes the role of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403338
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Air pollution and infant health : what can we learn from California's recent experience?
Currie, Janet M. (contributor); Neidell, Matthew (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001948548
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How do training programs assign participants to training? : characterizing the assignment rules of government agencies for Welfare-to-Work programs in California
Mitnik, Oscar A. - 2009
training policies and testing these implications using data from Welfare-to-Work training programs run by California counties …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003814243
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Affirmative action and university fit : evidence from proposition 209
Arcidiacono, Peter; Aucejo, Esteban; Coate, Patrick; … - 2012
Proposition 209 banned using racial preferences in admissions at California's public colleges. We analyze unique data … for all applicants and enrollees within the University of California (UC) system before and after Prop 209. After Prop 209 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009665527
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Searching for rehabilitation in nonparametric regression models with exogenous treatment assignment
Henderson, Daniel J.; Maasoumi, Esfandiar - 2012
This paper offers some new directions in the analysis of nonparamertric models with exogenous treatment assignment. The nonparametric approach opens the door to the examination of potentially different distributed outcomes. When combined with cross-validation, it also identifies potentially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009629111
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The effects of California's paid family leave program on mothers' leave-taking and subsequent labor market outcomes
Rossin-Slater, Maya; Ruhm, Christopher J.; Waldfogel, Jane - 2011
examine how California's first in the nation paid family leave (PFL) program affected leave-taking by mothers following … childbirth, as well as subsequent labor market outcomes. We obtain robust evidence that the California program more than doubled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009524387
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Lost in translation? : teacher training and outcomes in high school economics classes
Valletta, Robert G.; Hoff, K. Jody; Lopus, Jane S. - 2012
Using data on 24 teachers and 982 students from a 2006 survey of California high school economics classes, we assess …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009533309