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Dynamic Treatment Assignment : The Consequences for Evaluations Using Observational Data
Fredriksson, Peter; Johansson, Per - 2004
suggest easy-to-use nonparametric survival function matching estimators. These estimators can be used to estimate the time …
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Quantile treatment effects in the regression discontinuity design: Process results and gini coefficient
Frölich, Markus; Melly, Blaise - 2010
This paper shows nonparametric identification of quantile treatment effects (QTE) in the regression discontinuity design. The distributional impacts of social programs such as welfare, education, training programs and unemployment insurance are of large interest to economists. QTE are an...
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Causal effects of monetary shocks: semiparametric conditional independence tests with a multinomial propensity score
Angrist, Joshua D.; Kuersteiner, Guido M. - 2008
Macroeconomists have long been concerned with the causal effects of monetary policy. When the identification of causal effects is based on a selection-on-observables assumption, non-causality amounts to the conditional independence of outcomes and policy changes. This paper develops a...
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Bandwidth selection and the estimation of treatment effects with unbalanced data
Galdo, Jose; Smith, Jeffrey A.; Black, Dan - 2007
using matching methods. Because precise estimation of the expected counterfactual is particularly important in regions …
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What is the Value Added by Caseworkers?
Lechner, Michael; Smith, Jeffrey A. - 2003
policy by the caseworkers at local employment offices in Switzerland in 1998. We are particularly interested in whether the … security records. For the estimation we apply matching estimators adapted to the case of multiple programmes. The number of …
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Employment effects of the provision of specific professional skills and techniques in Germany
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Speckesser, Stefan - 2005
linear matching based on the estimated propensity score to estimate the average treatment effect on the treated of SPST …
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The relative effectiveness of selected active labour market programmes and the common support problem
Stephan, Gesine; Pahnke, André - 2008
employment prospects of participants. First, our results show that different matching algorithms result in different severe …
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Does Subsidised Temporary Employment Get the Unemployed Back to Work? An Econometric Analysis of Two Different Schemes
Gerfin, Michael; Lechner, Michael; Steiger, Heidi - 2002
schemes of subsidised temporary employment implemented in Switzerland. One scheme operates as a non-profit employment … econometric matching methods we find that TEMP is considerably more successful in getting the unemployed back into work than EP …
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Sensitivity of matching-based program evaluations to the availability of control variables
Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny - 2011
the question whether the omission of important control variables in matching estimation leads to biased impact estimates …
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How much can we trust causal interpretations of fixed-effects estimators in the context of criminality?
Bjerk, David - 2009
Researchers are often interested in estimating the causal effect of some treatment on individual criminality. For example, two recent relatively prominent papers have attempted to estimate the respective direct effects of marriage and gang participation on individual criminal activity. One...
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