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Coerced Labor in the Cotton Sector : How Global Commodity Prices (Don't) Transmit to the Poor

Danzer, Alexander M. - 2016

's geographic variation in the suitability for cotton production combined with a surge in the world market price of cotton in 2010 … command political capital to coerce workers.The expansion in land attributed to cotton production led to increases in labor … demand and wages for cotton pickers; however, the price hike benefits only workers on entrepreneurial private farms, whereas …

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Health and Labour Income of Wage Earners and Self-Employed Workers in Cameroon

Fomba Kamga, Benjamin - 2013

and self-employed workers in Cameroon. Health status is measured by a self-assessment of an individual's health; and … health, income, and selection into each employment status. The data used in this study is obtained from the 2007 Cameroon …

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Labour Contracts and Performance of Cameroonian Firms

Fomba Kamga, Benjamin - 2012

) survey data collected among manufacturing sector firms, having more than 15 employees, in Cameroon between April and May 2006 …

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Does Schooling Improve Cognitive Abilities at Older Ages : Causal Evidence from Nonparametric Bounds

Amin, Vikesh; Behrman, Jere R.; Fletcher, Jason; … - 2022

We revisit the much-investigated relationship between schooling and health, focusing on cognitive abilities at older ages using the Harmonized Cognition Assessment Protocol in the Health & Retirement Study. To address endogeneity concerns, we employ a nonparametric partial identification...

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Regime and Treatment Effects in Duration Models : Decomposing Expectation and Transplant Effects on the Kidney Waitlist

Kastoryano, Stephen - 2022

This paper proposes a causal decomposition framework for settings in which an initial regime randomization influences the timing of a treatment duration. The initial randomization and treatment affect in turn a duration outcome of interest. Our empirical application considers the survival of...

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Who Wins and Who Loses from State Subsidies?

Du, Jun; Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Stepanok, Ignat - 2022

China is perceived to rely on subsidizing firms in targeted industries to improve their performance and stay competitive. We implement an approach that allows for the joint estimation of direct and indirect effects of subsidies on subsidized and non-subsidized firms. We find that firms that...

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Abadie's Kappa and Weighting Estimators of the Local Average Treatment Effect

Słoczyński, Tymon; Uysal, Selver Derya; Wooldridge, … - 2022

In this paper we study the finite sample and asymptotic properties of various weighting estimators of the local average treatment effect (LATE), several of which are based on Abadie (2003)'s kappa theorem. Our framework presumes a binary endogenous explanatory variable ("treatment") and a binary...

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Clustered Local Average Treatment Effects : Fields of Study and Academic Student Progress

Nibbering, Didier; Oosterveen, Matthijs; Silva, Pedro Luis - 2022

Multiple unordered treatments with a binary instrument for each treatment are common in policy evaluation. This multiple treatment setting allows for different types of changes in treatment status that are non-compliant with the activated instrument. Therefore, instrumental variable (IV) methods...

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Treatment Effect Heterogeneity

Smith, Jeffrey A. - 2022

Knowledge of treatment effect heterogeneity or "essential heterogeneity" plays an important role in our understanding of how programs work and in the design of systems to allocate them among the eligible. This paper provides a relatively non-technical survey of the current state of the treatment...

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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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