Similar Search Results

Commuting time and labour supply: A causal effect?

Giménez, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto - 2011

We analyze the causal effect of the length of the worker's commute on worker's productivity, by examining whether commuting time has any effect on worker's labour market supply. Using the Spanish Time Use Survey 2002-03, our GMM/IV estimation yields a positive causal impact of commuting time on...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278752

Integrating personality psychology into economics

Heckman, James J. - 2011

This paper reviews the problems and potential benefits of integrating personality psychology into economics. Economists have much to learn from and contribute to personality psychology.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280682

Parental education and offspring outcomes: Evidence from the Swedish compulsory schooling reform

Lundborg, Petter; Nilsson, Anton; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2012

In this paper, we exploit the Swedish compulsory schooling reform in order to estimate the causal effect of parental education on son's outcomes. We use data from the Swedish enlistment register on the entire population of males and focus on outcomes such as cognitive skills, non-cognitive...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282195

Neighbourhood effects research at a crossroads: Ten challenges for future research

van Ham, Maarten; Manley, David - 2012

Neighbourhood effects research is at a crossroads since current theoretical and empirical approaches do not seem to be moving the debate forward. In this paper, we present a set of ten challenges as a basis for a new research agenda which will give new direction to the neighbourhood effects...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287697

Matching Methods in Practice: Three Examples

Imbens, Guido W. - 2014

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352224

Policy Discontinuity and Duration Outcomes

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Bozio, Antoine; Costa Dias, Monica - 2014

Causal effects of a policy change on hazard rates of a duration outcome variable are not identified from a comparison of spells before and after the policy change, if there is unobserved heterogeneity in the effects and no model structure is imposed. We develop a discontinuity approach that...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010409417

Robust Confidence Intervals for Average Treatment Effects under Limited Overlap

Rothe, Christoph - 2015

Estimators of average treatment effects under unconfounded treatment assignment are known to become rather imprecise if there is limited overlap in the covariate distributions between the treatment groups. But such limited overlap can also have a detrimental effect on inference, and lead for...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010481652

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261660

Health and Wealth of Elderly Couples : Causality Tests Using Dynamic Panel Data Models

Michaud, Pierre-Carl; van Soest, Arthur - 2004

analyzes causality from health to wealth (health causation) and from wealth to health (wealth or social causation) for elderly … recently developed strategy using Granger causality tests of Adams et al. (2003, Journal of Econometrics) with tests for … causality in dynamic panel data models incorporating unobserved heterogeneity. While Adams et al. tests reject the hypothesis of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262057

Causal Analysis after Haavelmo

Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo - 2013

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329149