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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...
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This paper investigates patterns and determinants of temporary labour migration in Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova …
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The context of community-based interventions presents formidable problems for any evaluation analysis. Group …
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themselves. Based on publications in academic journals, the central criterion of research evaluation, research output has …
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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...
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We explore how umpires' racial/ethnic preferences are expressed in their evaluation of Major League Baseball pitchers …
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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...
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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...
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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 …
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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 …
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