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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861200
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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
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Regional Policy Evaluation : Interactive Fixed Effects and Synthetic Controls
Gobillon, Laurent - 2013
In this paper, we investigate the use of interactive effect or linear factor models in regional policy evaluation. We contrast treatment effect estimates obtained by Bai (2009)'s least squares method with the popular difference in difference estimates as well as with estimates obtained using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013078823
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The Legacy Lead Deposition in Soils and its Impact on Cognitive Function in Preschool-Aged Children in the United States
Clay, Karen - 2019
Surface soil contamination has been long recognized as an important pathway of human lead exposure, and is now a worldwide health concern. This study estimates the causal effects of exposure to lead in topsoil on cognitive ability among 5-year-old children. We draw on individual level data from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870301
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The Impact of Local Decentralization on Economic Growth : Evidence from U.S. Counties
Hammond, George W. - 2009
We analyze the impact of fiscal decentralization on U.S. county population, employment, and real income growth. Our … findings suggest that government organization matters for local economic growth, but that the impacts vary by government unit … population and employment growth, but no significant impact on nonmetropolitan counties. In contrast, the fragmentation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153508
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The Effect of Migration on Income Growth and Convergence : Meta-Analytic Evidence
Ozgen, Ceren - 2009
income growth rate in that region on average by about 0.1 percentage points, thus suggesting an impact of net migration that … migration variable in a growth regression increases the estimate of beta convergence slightly. Studies that use panel models or … IV estimation methods yield smaller coefficients of net migration in growth regressions, while the opposite holds for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154994
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A Distribution Dynamics Approach to Regional GDP Convergence in Unified Germany
Juessen, Falko - 2009
This paper uses nonparametric techniques to study GDP convergence across German labor market regions and counties during the period 1992-2004. The main result is that regional convergence in unified Germany has been substantial. In the first years after German unification the distribution of GDP...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159511
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Implications of the Polish 1999 Administrative Reform for Regional Socio-Economic Development
Myck, Michal - 2019
On 1 January 1999, four major reforms took effect in Poland in the areas of health, education, pensions and local administration. After 20 years, only in the last case does the original structural design remain essentially unchanged. We examine the implications of this reform from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870258
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Earnings Effects of Training Programs
Lechner, Michael; Melly, Blaise - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
In an evaluation of a job-training program, the influence of the program on the individualearnings capacity is important, because it reflects the program effect on human capital.Estimating these effects is complicated because earnings are observed for employedindividuals only, and employment is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862583
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Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Britain : Evidence from a Bayesian Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Analysis
Chib, Siddhartha - 2011
In this paper we reevaluate the returns to education based on the increase in the compulsory schooling age from 14 to 15 in the UK in 1947. We provide a Bayesian fuzzy regression discontinuity approach to infer the effect on earnings for a subset of subjects who turned 14 in a narrow window...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128224