Showing 1 - 10 of 151
We are the first to investigate longer-term effects of pharmacological treatment of ADHD on children's health. We rely on a difference-in-differences strategy while exploiting Danish register-based panel data for children born in 1990-1999. We study effects of treatment initiated between ages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287616
The context of community-based interventions presents formidable problems for any evaluation analysis. Group …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262412
themselves. Based on publications in academic journals, the central criterion of research evaluation, research output has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268762
A Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) in the health-care sector is used to test the loss aversion theory that is derived from reference-dependent preferences: The absolute subjective value of a deviation from a reference point is generally greater when the deviation represents a loss than when the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268808
We explore how umpires' racial/ethnic preferences are expressed in their evaluation of Major League Baseball pitchers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269012
Much has been written identifying property price effects of historic preservation policies. Little attention has been paid to the possible policy endogeneity in hedonic price models. This paper outlines a general case of land use regulation in the presence of externalities and then demonstrates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269350
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/10010271321
This paper reviews some of the most popular policy evaluation methods in empirical microeconomics: social experiments … evaluation literature. A workhorse simulation model of education returns is used throughout the paper to discuss and illustrate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271892
This paper accounts for the value of children and future generations in the evaluation of health policies. This is … evaluation of current policies. Our model clarifies a series of puzzles from the literature on the value of life and on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276671
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/10010276704