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Employment impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic across metropolitan status and size
Cho, Seung Jin; Lee, Jun Yeong; Winters, John V. - 2020
We examine effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on employment losses across metropolitan area status and population size. Non-metropolitan and metropolitan areas of all sizes experienced significant employment losses, but the impacts are much larger in large metropolitan areas. Employment losses...
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Matching in cities
Dauth, Wolfgang; Findeisen, Sebastian; Moretti, Enrico; … - 2019
In most countries, average wages tend to be higher in larger cities. In this paper, we focus on the role played by the matching of workers to firms in explaining geographical wage differences. Using rich administrative German data for 1985-2014, we show that wages in large cities are higher not...
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Welfare benefits of agglomeration and worker heterogeneity
Teulings, Coen N.; Ossokina, Ioulia V.; Groot, Henri L. … - 2014
effects on home and job location, on land use, and on agglomeration benefits are hard to pin down. We develop a spatial … general equilibrium model for the valuation of these effects. The model is estimated using data on transport infrastructure …
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Comparative advantage and agglomeration of economic activity
Pflüger, Michael; Tabuchi, Takatoshi - 2016
key insight that emerges is that the interaction between agglomeration economies and comparative advantage involves a … comparative advantage in sectors governed by this force whilst the impact of agglomeration economies is enhanced by trade cost … small economies is not only shaped by the primitives that determine agglomeration economies and comparative advantage but …
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Matching methods in practice : three examples
Imbens, Guido - 2014
There is a large theoretical literature on methods for estimating causal effects under unconfoundedness, exogeneity, or selection-on-observables type assumptions using matching or propensity score methods. Much of this literature is highly technical and has not made inroads into empirical...
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Causality and econometrics
Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo - 2022
This paper examines the econometric causal model for policy analysis developed by the seminal ideas of Ragnar Frisch and Trygve Haavelmo. We compare the econometric causal model with two popular causal frameworks: Neyman-Holland causal model and the do-calculus. The Neyman-Holland causal model...
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The intergenerational transmission of cognitive skills: an investigation of the causal impact of families on student outcomes
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Jacobs, Babs; Schwerdt, Guido; … - 2021
The extensive literature on intergenerational mobility highlights the importance of family linkages but fails to provide credible evidence about the underlying family factors that drive the pervasive correlations. We employ a unique combination of Dutch survey and registry data that links math...
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Bye, bye, hotel mama, bye, bye good grades? : living in a student room and exam results in tertiary education
Amez, Simon; Baert, Stijn - 2021
' residential status and exam scores to control for observed heterogeneity as well as for individual fixed (or random) effects. We … find that after correcting for unobserved heterogeneity, the association found in earlier contributions disappears. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012588756
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The causal effect of trust
Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Huffman, David; Netzer, Nick - 2018
Trust affects almost all human relationships - in families, organizations, markets and politics. However, identifying the conditions under which trust, defined as people's beliefs in the trustworthiness of others, has a causal effect on the efficiency of human interactions has proven to be...
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The causal effect of education on chronic health conditions
Janke, Katharina; Johnston, David; Propper, Carol; … - 2018
Studies using education policy reforms to isolate causal effects of education on health produce mixed evidence. We analyse an unusually large sample and study chronic health conditions. For identification, we use two major education reforms, one that raised the minimum school leaving age and one...
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