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Nonparametric Kernel Estimation of the Impact of Tax Policy on the Demand for Private Health Insurance in Australia

Gong, Xiaodong; Gao, Jiti - 2015

This paper is motivated by our attempt to answer an empirical question: how is private health insurance take-up in Australia affected by the income threshold at which the Medicare Levy Surcharge (MLS) kicks in? We propose a new difference de-convolution kernel estimator for the location and size...

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The effect of disability on labour market outcomes in Germany : evidence from matching

Lechner, Michael; Vazquez-Alvarez, Rosalia - 2003

If labour market policies aimed at people with disabilities are effective, we should observe no significant difference in labour market outcomes between disable and non-disable individuals. This paper examines the impact of disability status on labour market outcomes using matching methods...

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Nonparametric IV Estimation of Local Average Treatment Effects with Covariates

Frölich, Markus - 2002

In this paper nonparametric instrumental variable estimation of local average treatment effects (LATE) is extended to incorporate confounding covariates. Estimation of local average treatment effects is appealing since their identification relies on much weaker assumptions than the...

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What is the Value of Knowing the Propensity Score for Estimating Average Treatment Effects?

Frölich, Markus - 2002

score does not lead to a ?dimension reduction?. Instead it enables a more efficient estimation of the distribution of the …

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Programme Evaluation with Multiple Treatments

Frölich, Markus - 2002

This paper reviews the main identification and estimation strategies for microeconomic policy evaluation. Particular emphasis is laid on evaluating policies consisting of multiple programmes, which is of high relevance in practice. For example, active labour market policies may consist of...

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Statistical treatment choice: an application to active labour market programmes

Frölich, Markus - 2006

Choosing among a number of available treatments the most suitable for a given subject is an issue of everyday concern. A physician has to choose an appropriate drug treatment or medical treatment for a given patient, based on a number of observed covariates X and prior experience. A case worker...

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Does the quality of training programs matter? Evidence from bidding processes data

Chong, Alberto; Galdo, Jose - 2006

We estimate the effect of training quality on earnings using a Peruvian program, which targets disadvantaged youths. The identification of causal effects is possible because of two attractive features in the data. First, selection of training courses is based on public bidding processes that...

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A note on parametric and nonparametric regression in the presence of endogenous control variables

Frölich, Markus - 2006

This note argues that nonparametric regression not only relaxes functional form assumptions vis-a-vis parametric regression, but that it also permits endogenous control variables. To control for selection bias or to make an exclusion restriction in instrumental variables regression valid,...

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A martingale representation for matching estimators

Abadie, Alberto; Imbens, Guido W. - 2009

Matching estimators are widely used in statistical data analysis. However, the distribution of matching estimators has … matching estimators. This representation allows the use of martingale limit theorems to derive the asymptotic distribution of … matching estimators. As an illustration of the applicability of the theory, we derive the asymptotic distribution of a matching …

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Identification and estimation of causal mechanisms and net effects of a treatment under unconfoundedness

Flores, Carlos A.; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso - 2009

An important goal when analyzing the causal effect of a treatment on an outcome is to understand the mechanisms through which the treatment causally works. We define a causal mechanism effect of a treatment and the causal effect net of that mechanism using the potential outcomes framework. These...

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