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The Causal Impact of Migration on US Trade : Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Steingress, Walter - 2015
Immigrants can increase international trade by shifting preferences towards the goods of their country of origin and by reducing bilateral transaction costs. Using geographical variations across US states for the period 1970 to 2005, we quantify the impact of immigrants on intermediate goods...
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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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Early Child Care and Labor Supply of Lower-Ses Mothers : A Randomized Controlled Trial
Hermes, Henning; Krauß, Marina; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2022
We present experimental evidence that enabling access to universal early child care for families with lower socioeconomic status (SES) increases maternal labor supply. Our intervention provides families with customized help for child care applications, resulting in a large increase in enrollment...
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Inference on Causal Effects in a Generalized Regression Kink Design
Card, David - 2015
We consider nonparametric identification and estimation in a nonseparable model where a continuous regressor of … endogenous assignment variable (like previous earnings). We provide new results on identification and estimation for these …
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Fiscal Effects of Minimum Wages : An Analysis for Germany
Bauer, Thomas K.; Kluve, Jochen; Schaffner, Sandra; … - 2021
Against the background of the current discussion on the introduction of statutory minimum wages in Germany, this paper analyzes the potential employment and fiscal effects of such a policy. Based on estimated labor demand elasticities obtained from a structural labor demand model, the empirical...
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Child Care, Parental Labor Supply and Tax Revenue
Eckhoff Andresen, Martin - 2018
We study the impact of child care for toddlers on the labor supply of mothers and fathers in Norway. For identification, we exploit the staggered expansion across municipalities following a large reform from 2002. Our IV-estimates indicate that child care use causes an increase in the labor...
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The Impact of Inflation Targeting on Inflation and Growth : How Robust is the Evidence?
Junankar, P. N. Raja - 2020
authors have used different estimation methods on different samples of data. Some of the differences in results may also be … due to the different time periods (or different frequencies of data) used in the estimation. In this paper, we provide … estimation methods on panel data on a large sample of countries. We note that the results depend critically on the sample …
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How Successful are Banking Sector Reforms in Emerging Market Economies? Evidence from Impact of Monetary Policy on Levels and Structures of Firm Debt in India
Bhaumik, Sumon K. - 2016
Many emerging markets have undertaken significant financial sector reforms especially in their banking sectors that have been quite critical for both financial development and real economic activity. In this paper, we investigate the success of banking reforms in India where significant banking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012988130
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Decomposition of Differences in PISA Results in Middle Income Countries
Nieto, Sandra - 2014
Our objective is to analyse the role of teacher and school quality to explain differences in students' educational outcomes. With this aim, we use PISA microdata for 10 middle income and 2 high income countries and we apply decomposition methods in order to identify the role of these factors for...
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Sensitivity of Matching-Based Program Evaluations to the Availability of Control Variables
Lechner, Michael - 2011
the question whether the omission of important control variables in matching estimation leads to biased impact estimates …
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