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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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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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Arsenic contamination of drinking water and mental health

Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Krause-Pilatus, Annabelle; … - 2015

arsenic contamination of groundwater to construct several measures for arsenic contamination that include the actual arsenic …

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Still waters run deep : groundwater contamination and education outcomes in India

Aggarwal, Khushboo; Barua, Rashmi; Vidal-Fernandez, Marian - 2024

We investigate the impact of groundwater contamination on educational outcomes in India. Our study leverages variations … exposure to contaminants. Using self-collected survey data from public schools in Assam, one of the most groundwater …-contaminated regions in India, we find that prolonged exposure to unsafe groundwater is associated with increased school absenteeism, grade …

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Duration models and point processes

Florens, Jean-Pierre (contributor); … - 2007

This survey is devoted to the statistical analysis of duration models and point processes. The first section introduces specific concepts and definitions for single-spell duration models. Section two is devoted to the presentation of conditional duration models which incorporate the effects of...

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Instrumental variables in models with multiple outcomes : the general unordered case

Heckman, James J. (contributor); Urzua, Sergio (contributor) - 2008

This paper develops the method of local instrumental variables for models with multiple, unordered treatments when treatment choice is determined by a nonparametric version of the multinomial choice model. Responses to interventions are permitted to be heterogeneous in a general way and agents...

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Identification of treatment effects on the treated with one-sided non-compliance

Frölich, Markus (contributor); Melly, Blaise (contributor) - 2008

Traditional instrumental variable estimators do not generally estimate effects for the treated population but for the unobserved population of compliers. They do identify effects for the treated when there is one-sided perfect non-compliance. However, this property is lost when covariates are...

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The relative effectiveness of selected active labour market programmes and the common support problem

Stephan, Gesine (contributor); Pahnke, André (contributor) - 2008

For Germany, we analyse the (relative) effects of participation in several active labour market programmes on the employment prospects of participants. First, our results show that different matching algorithms result in different severe problems of common support. Second, we obtain favourable...

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Alternative approaches to evaluation in empirical microeconomics

Blundell, Richard W. (contributor); … - 2008

This paper reviews some of the most popular policy evaluation methods in empirical microeconomics: social experiments, natural experiments, matching, instrumental variables, discontinuity design, and control functions. It discusses identification of traditionally used average parameters and more...

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Evaluating the dynamic employment effects of training programs in East Germany using conditional difference-in-differences

Bergemann, Annette (contributor); … - 2005

This study analyzes the employment effects of training in East Germany. We propose and apply an extension of the widely used conditional difference-in-differences evaluation method. Focusing on transition rates between nonemployment and employment we take into account that employment is a state...

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