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What Methods May Be Used in Impact Evaluations of Humanitarian Assistance?
Puri, Jyotsna - 2015
the extent to which scientific impact evaluation methods can provide evidence to improve the effectiveness and efficiency … drawing on real-life examples from the small but growing academic literature, we demonstrate how impact evaluation methods can … limited resources is a key challenge for humanitarian assistance and impact evaluation is one way of achieving this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013029648
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Work Disability, Work, and Justification Bias in Europe and the U.S
Kapteyn, Arie - 2009
To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question such as do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do? A possible drawback of such a measure is the possibility that different groups...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155601
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Funding Self-Employment : The Role of Consumer Credit
Kneiding, Christoph - 2011
This paper investigates whether self-employed households use consumer loans – in particular instalment loans and overdrafts – to finance business activities. Controlling for financial and non-financial household variables we show that self-employed households particularly use personal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118523
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Policy Relevant Heterogeneity in the Value of Statistical Life : New Evidence from Panel Data Quantile Regressions
Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2012
We examine differences in the value of statistical life (VSL) across potential wage levels in panel data using quantile regressions with intercept heterogeneity. Latent heterogeneity is econometrically important and affects the estimated VSL. Our findings indicate that a reasonable average cost...
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Child Mental Health and Educational Attainment : Multiple Observers and the Measurement Error Problem
Johnston, David W. - 2011
We examine the effect of survey measurement error on the empirical relationship between child mental health and personal and family characteristics, and between child mental health and educational progress. Our contribution is to use unique UK survey data that contains (potentially biased)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121757
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How Should Peer-Review Panels Behave?
Sgroi, Daniel - 2012
Many governments wish to assess the quality of their universities. A prominent example is the UK's new Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014. In the REF, peer-review panels will be provided with information on publications and citations. This paper suggests a way in which panels could choose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096771
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Endogenous Indoctrination : Occupational Choice, the Evolution of Beliefs, and the Political Economy of Reform
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2009
Much of the political economy analysis of reform focuses on the conflict of interest between groups that stand to gain or lose from the competing policy proposals. In reality, there is also a lot of disagreement about the working of the policy: in addition to conflicting interests, conflicting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155704
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Evaluation of Language Training Programs in Luxembourg Using Principal Stratification
Bia, Michela - 2018
In a world increasingly globalized, multiple language skills can create more employment opportunities. Several countries include language training programs in active labor market programs for the unemployed. We analyze the effects of a language training program on the re-employment probability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906497
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School Performance, Score Inflation and Economic Geography
Battistin, Erich - 2017
We show that grading standards for primary school exams in England have triggered an inflation of quality indicators in the national performance tables for almost two decades. The cumulative effects have resulted in significant differences in the quality signaled to parents for otherwise...
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Biases in Student Evaluations of Teaching : An American Case Study
Radchenko, Natalia - 2020
This work contributes to the literature raising concerns with the use of SET (student teaching evaluation) scores to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012825011