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Estimation of joint income-wealth poverty : a sensitivity analysis
Kuypers, Sarah; Marx, Ive - 2016
Most poverty studies build on measures that take account of recurring incomes from sources such as labour or social transfers. However, other financial resources such as savings and assets also affect living standards, often in very significant ways. Previous studies that have sought to...
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Mhbounds - sensitivity analysis for average treatment effects
Becker, Sascha O. (contributor); Caliendo, Marco (contributor) - 2007
Matching has become a popular approach to estimate average treatment effects. It is based on the conditional independence or unconfoundedness assumption. Checking the sensitivity of the estimated results with respect to deviations from this identifying assumption has become an increasingly...
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The economic costs of child maltreatment in UK
Conti, Gabriella; Pizzo, Elena; Morris, Stephen; … - 2021
-fatal child maltreatment by a primary caregiver is estimated at £89,390 (95% uncertainty interval £44,896 to £145,508); the …
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Evaluation of language training programs in Luxembourg using principal stratification
Bia, Michela; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso; Mercatanti, Andrea - 2018
In a world increasingly globalized, multiple language skills can create more employment opportunities. Several countries include language training programs in active labor market programs for the unemployed. We analyze the effects of a language training program on the re-employment probability...
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Rationalizing rational expectations? : tests and deviations
D'Haultfœuille, Xavier; Gaillac, Christophe; Maurel, Arnaud - 2018
In this paper, we build a new test of rational expectations based on the marginal distributions of realizations and subjective beliefs. This test is widely applicable, including in the common situation where realizations and beliefs are observed in two different datasets that cannot be matched....
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Energy boom and gloom? : local effects of oil and natural gas drilling on subjective well-being
Maguire, Karen; Winters, John V. - 2016
technological advancements including horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. Increased energy development likely creates both …
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Who benefits from local oil and gas employment? : labor market composition in the oil and gas industry in Texas
Cai, Zhengyu; Maguire, Karen; Winters, John V. - 2019
This paper examines local labor market outcomes from an oil and gas boom in Texas. We examine two main outcomes across gender, race, and ethnicity: the probability of employment in the oil and gas industry and the log wages of workers employed outside the oil and gas industry. We find that men...
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Melancholy hues : the futility of green growth and degrowth, and the inevitability of societal collapse
Naudé, Wim - 2023
The economic expansion witnessed in the last 0,08% of modern human history is an anomalous event. It has been compared to a "rocket ship that took off five seconds ago, and nobody knows where it's going." This paper explores the destiny of this rocket ship. It shows that economic growth cannot...
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When do remittances facilitate asset accumulation? : the importance of remittance income uncertainty
Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Pozo, Susan - 2014
uncertainty of remittance income inflows affects the accumulation of human, physical and financial assets of Mexican households …, while accounting for the level of transfers from family abroad. We find that both the level and the uncertainty of … income hypothesis and theories of precautionary saving, a one standard deviation increase in the uncertainty of remittance …
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On measuring uncertainty : snakes and ladders
Junankar, Pramod N. - 2016
surge in the stock market would be self-correcting. Recent papers have discussed the role of "uncertainty" and its … measurement in influencing economic decisions. They attempt to measure uncertainty by indexes of volatility of the stock market …, GDP, forecaster disagreement, mentions of uncertainty in news media, and the dispersion of productivity shocks to firms …
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