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An Economic Analysis of Exclusion Restrictions for Instrumental Variable Estimation
van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2007
Instrumental variable estimation requires untestable exclusion restrictions. With policy effects on individual outcomes, there is typically a time interval between the moment the agent realizes that he may be exposed to the policy and the actual exposure or the announcement of the actual...
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Structural Empirical Evaluation of Job Search Monitoring
van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2014
We structurally estimate a novel job search model with endogenous job search effort, job quality dispersion, and effort monitoring, taking into account that monitoring effects may be mitigated by on-the-job search and search channel substitution. The data are from a randomized experiment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061931
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Is Transparency an Anti-Corruption Myth?
Murray, Cameron - 2017
We look at the effect of transparency on the incidence of costly back-scratching in a laboratory setting by … transparency. A plausible story that fits our results is that there may be two countervailing forces at play. First, more rapid … policy makers about the limits of transparency in curtailing "grey" types of corruption …
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Labor Market Transparency
Wadensjo, Eskil - 2013
labor market information. The subsequent sections discuss complications regarding labor market transparency in the context … of international migration and public policy and policy implications regarding labor market transparency. A final section …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074198
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Unemployed and Their Caseworkers:Should They Be Friends or Foes?
Behncke, Stefanie; Frölich, Markus; Lechner, Michael - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
In many countries, caseworkers in a public employment office have the dual roles ofcounselling and monitoring unemployed persons. These roles often conflict with each otherleading to important caseworker heterogeneity: Some consider providing services to theirclients and satisfying their demands...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861427
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The Identification and Economic Content ofOrdered Choice Models with Stochastic Thresholds
Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James J.; Navarro, Salvador - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper extends the widely used ordered choice model by introducing stochasticthresholds and interval-specific outcomes...
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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...
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Towards a General Theory of Peer Effects
Boucher, Vincent; Rendall, Michelle; Ushchev, Philip; … - 2023
There is substantial empirical evidence showing that peer effects matter in many activities. The workhorse model in empirical work on peer effects is the linear-in-means (LIM) model, whereby it is assumed that agents are linearly affected by the mean action of their peers. We develop a new...
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Comparing IV with Structural Models : What Simple IV Can and Cannot Identify
Heckman, James J. - 2009
This paper compares the economic questions addressed by instrumental variables estimators with those addressed by structural approaches. We discuss Marschak's Maxim: estimators should be selected on the basis of their ability to answer well-posed economic problems with minimal assumptions. A key...
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Does Increasing Parents' Schooling Raise the Schooling of the Next Generation? Evidence Based on Conditional Second Moments
Farré, Lidia - 2009
This paper investigates the degree of intergenerational transmission of education for individuals from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. Rather than identifying the causal effect of parental education via instrumental variables we exploit the feature of the transmission mechanism...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012765091