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Analysis of the Determinants of Income and Income Gap between Urban and Rural China

Su, Biwei - 2014

This paper studies on the determinants of income and urban-rural income gap to shed light on the problem of urban …-rural income inequality in China. OLS, conditional quantile regression and Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition methods are used to analyze … essential determinants of households' income level. These two factors exert heterogeneous effects at different percentiles of …

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What If You Had Been Less Fortunate : The Effects of Poor Family Background on Current Labor Market Outcomes

Cho, Sungwook - 2013

Labor Income Panel Study, KLIPS, quantile regression technique and decomposition method are conducted to identify and … decompose the wage gap between low (poor) and middle class income group along the whole current wage distribution, based on a …

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On the Multivariate Analysis of the "Lisbon Process"

Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas; Bajalan, Chemen S.J. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Starting from Professor Kornai´s assertion about the necessity to focus on the long-termperspectives of the transformation process, we analyze in this paper the Lisbon performanceof the countries of the European Union from such a long-term, structural perspective. Wepresent in a simple form the...

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Quantile Treatment Effects in the Regression Discontinuity Design : Process Results and Gini Coefficient

Frölich, Markus - 2014

This paper shows nonparametric identification of quantile treatment effects (QTE) in the regression discontinuity design. The distributional impacts of social programs such as welfare, education, training programs and unemployment insurance are of large interest to economists. QTE are an...

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On the Multivariate Analysis of the Lisbon Process

Tausch, Arno - 2007

Starting from Professor Kornai's assertion about the necessity to focus on the long-term perspectives of the transformation process, we analyze in this paper the Lisbon performance of the countries of the European Union from such a long-term, structural perspective. We present in a simple form...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012775462

Endogeneity and Non-Response Bias in Treatment Evaluation : Nonparametric Identification of Causal Effects by Instruments

Fricke, Hans - 2015

This paper proposes a nonparametric method for evaluating treatment effects in the presence of both treatment endogeneity and attrition/non-response bias, using two instrumental variables. Making use of a discrete instrument for the treatment and a continuous instrument for...

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Direct and Indirect Treatment Effects : Causal Chains and Mediation Analysis with Instrumental Variables

Frölich, Markus - 2014

effects (i) of education on health, which may be mediated by income, and (ii) of the Job Corps training program, which may …

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Treatment Evaluation with Multiple Outcome Periods Under Endogeneity and Attrition

Frölich, Markus - 2014

This paper develops a nonparametric methodology for treatment evaluation with multiple outcome periods under treatment endogeneity and missing outcomes. We use instrumental variables, pre-treatment characteristics, and short-term (or intermediate) outcomes to identify the average treatment...

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The Short- and Long-Term Effects of School Choice on Student Outcomes : Evidence from a School Choice Reform in Sweden

Wondratschek, Verena - 2014

This paper evaluates the effects of a major Swedish school choice reform. The reform in 1992 increased school choice and competition among public schools as well as through a large-scale introduction of private schools. We estimate the effects of school choice and competition, using precise...

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Exploiting Regional Treatment Intensity for the Evaluation of Labour Market Policies

Frölich, Markus; Lechner, Michael - 2021

We estimate the effects of active labour market policies (ALMP) on subsequent employment by nonparametric instrumental variables and matching estimators. Very informative administrative Swiss data with detailed regional information are combined with exogenous regional variation in programme...

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