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New Insights on Unemployment Duration andPost Unemployment Earnings in Germany:Censored Box-Cox Quantile Regression at Work
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Wilke, Ralf A. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
In light of nonstationary search theory (van den Berg, 1990), this paper estimates the effectsof benefit entitlement periods and the size of unemployment benefits on unemploymentdurations and post-unemployment earnings in West Germany...
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A Simple Method to Visualize Results in Nonlinear Regression Models
Henderson, Daniel J. - 2012
A simple graphical approach to presenting results from nonlinear regression models is described. In the face of multiple covariates, 'partial mean' plots may be unattractive. The approach here is portable to a variety of settings and can be tailored to the specific application at hand. A simple...
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Quantile Treatment Effects in the Regression Discontinuity Design : Process Results and Gini Coefficient
Frölich, Markus - 2014
the outcome distribution. We propose uniformly consistent estimators for both potential outcome distributions (treated and …-dimensional nonparametric regression. We apply the proposed estimators to estimate the effects of summer school on the distribution of school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069679
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Evaluating Nonexperimental Estimators for Multiple Treatments : Evidence from Experimental Data
Flores, Carlos A. - 2009
This paper assesses the effectiveness of unconfoundedness-based estimators of mean effects for multiple or multivalued treatments in eliminating biases arising from nonrandom treatment assignment. We evaluate these multiple treatment estimators by simultaneously equalizing average outcomes among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155543
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Identification and Estimation of Causal Mechanisms and Net Effects of a Treatment Under Unconfoundedness
Flores, Carlos A. - 2009
An important goal when analyzing the causal effect of a treatment on an outcome is to understand the mechanisms through which the treatment causally works. We define a causal mechanism effect of a treatment and the causal effect net of that mechanism using the potential outcomes framework. These...
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Statistical Treatment Choice : An Application to Active Labour Market Programmes
Frölich, Markus - 2006
Choosing among a number of available treatments the most suitable for a given subject is an issue of everyday concern. A physician has to choose an appropriate drug treatment or medical treatment for a given patient, based on a number of observed covariates X and prior experience. A case worker...
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A Martingale Representation for Matching Estimators
Abadie, Alberto - 2009
Matching estimators are widely used in statistical data analysis. However, the distribution of matching estimators has … matching estimators. This representation allows the use of martingale limit theorems to derive the asymptotic distribution of … matching estimators. As an illustration of the applicability of the theory, we derive the asymptotic distribution of a matching …
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Non-Parametric Inference for the Effect of a Treatment on Survival Times with Application in the Health and Social Sciences
de Luna, Xavier - 2009
In this paper we perform inference on the effect of a treatment on survival times in studies where the treatment assignment is not randomized and the assignment time is not known in advance. Two such studies are discussed: a heart transplant program and a study of Swedish unemployed eligible for...
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A Permutation Test and Estimation Alternatives for the Regression Kink Design
Ganong, Peter - 2014
inference, we propose that researchers construct a distribution of placebo estimates in regions without a policy kink. We apply …
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Nonparametric Kernel Estimation of the Impact of Tax Policy on the Demand for Private Health Insurance in Australia
Gong, Xiaodong - 2015
This paper is motivated by our attempt to answer an empirical question: how is private health insurance take-up in Australia affected by the income threshold at which the Medicare Levy Surcharge (MLS) kicks in? We propose a new difference de-convolution kernel estimator for the location and size...
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