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and trip expenditure decisions together. We control for a large set of explanatory variables broadly classified as … important determinants of trip expenditure in addition to economic and socio-demographic characteristics. The unconditional … quantile regression results show the heterogeneity in the impact of many variables across the trip expenditure distribution …
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, we show that the gender of the recipient has an effect on the structure of expenditure shares. Targeting transfers to … women increases the expenditure share on food by about 4 to 5%. To study the allocation of expenditures within the food …
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much less consensus as to whether this correlation reflects causality from more schooling to better health. The … relationship may be traced in part to reverse causality and may also reflect "omitted third variables" that cause health and …
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Haavelmo's seminal 1943 paper is the first rigorous treatment of causality. In it, he distinguished the definition of … Acyclic Graphs (DAG) used in one influential recent approach to causality (Pearl, 2000) and in the related literature on … Pearl in securing identification of economic models. We extend our framework to consider models for simultaneous causality …
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There exists a strong educational gradient in cancer risk, which has been documented in a wide range of populations. Yet relatively little is known about the extent to which education is causally linked to cancer incidence and mortality. This paper exploits a large social experiment where an...
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There is a large theoretical literature on methods for estimating causal effects under unconfoundedness, exogeneity, or selection-on-observables type assumptions using matching or propensity score methods. Much of this literature is highly technical and has not made inroads into empirical...
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personality traits, challenges regarding the stability of preferences and traits, and challenges when inferring causality …
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Trust affects almost all human relationships – in families, organizations, markets and politics. However, identifying the conditions under which trust, defined as people's beliefs in the trustworthiness of others, has a causal effect on the efficiency of human interactions has proven to be...
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We investigate two-way causality between health and the hourly wage by employing insights from the human capital and …
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After a decade of correlational research, this study is the first to measure the causal impact of (general) smartphone use on educational performance. To this end, we merge survey data on general smartphone use, exogenous predictors of this use, and other drivers of academic success with the...
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