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there is limited overlap in the covariate distributions between the treatment groups. But such limited overlap can also have … by the number of observations in the areas of limited overlap. At least some of these "local sample sizes" are often very …
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Binary treatments are often ex-post aggregates of multiple treatments or can be disaggregated into multiple treatment versions. Thus, effects can be heterogeneous due to either effect or treatment heterogeneity. We propose a decomposition method that uncovers masked heterogeneity, avoids...
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financial post-separation arrangements remained unapplied. This suggests that the main innovative aspect of the law - the … inefficiency. Moreover, the incentives for a female partner to apply for a separation raised. The paper discusses a possible …
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This paper analyses the hiring and separation rates in Tunisia before and after the Arab Spring of 2011. Several models … separation, total employment effects and composition of labour force by gender, managerial level and age cohorts. Six models are … estimated to investigate hiring, separation, hiring rate, separation rate, mobility, and net-employment. The results indicate …
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Immigrants do not fare as well as natives in economic terms; even after including many controls, an unexplained part remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic outcomes of immigrants, their behavior and their often...
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, separation or marginalization. A large body of literature has emerged examining the effects of immigrants' characteristics (age …
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-sex marriage legalization had two different effects. First, it increased the separation rate of existing same-sex registered … partnerships. Second, partnerships that were transformed into marriage had a substantially lower separation rate. We take the …
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well-being and separation. We first estimate the marital surplus using a simple matching model of the marriage market with … estimates of the marital surplus are negatively correlated with separation and the difference in spouses' subjective …
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We analyze four methods to measure unexplained gaps in mean outcomes: three decompositions based on the seminal work of Oaxaca (1973) and Blinder (1973) and an approach involving a seemingly naive regression that includes a group indicator variable. Our analysis yields two principal findings. We...
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outliers and influential observations. A variety of diagnostic methods are employed to identify these influential observations … methods utilised proved incapable of identifying or accommodating the gross outlier(s) in the data, the more successful …
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