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On the rise of health spending and longevity

Fonseca, Raquel; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Galama, Titus; … - 2009

We use a calibrated stochastic life-cycle model of endogenous health spending, asset accumulation and retirement to investigate the causes behind the increase in health spending and life expectancy over the period 1965-2005. We estimate that technological change along with the increase in the...

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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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Causal effects of monetary shocks: semiparametric conditional independence tests with a multinomial propensity score

Angrist, Joshua D.; Kuersteiner, Guido M. - 2008

dependent data and allowing for first-step estimation of the propensity score. …

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How much can we trust causal interpretations of fixed-effects estimators in the context of criminality?

Bjerk, David - 2009

Researchers are often interested in estimating the causal effect of some treatment on individual criminality. For example, two recent relatively prominent papers have attempted to estimate the respective direct effects of marriage and gang participation on individual criminal activity. One...

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Do better schools lead to more growth? Cognitive skills, economic outcomes, and causation

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009

affect the earnings of immigrants on the U.S. labor market in a difference-in-differences model that compares home …

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Heterogeneous life-cycle profiles, income risk and consumption inequality

Primiceri, Giorgio E.; van Rens, Thijs - 2007

Was the increase in income inequality in the US due to permanent shocks or merely to an increase in the variance of …

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Trends in economic research: an international perspective

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Guimarães, Paulo; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010

standards in economics around the world been reflected in research performance? How have individual countries fared? Do research … quantity and quality indicators tell us the same story? We concentrate on trends taking place since the beginning of the 1990s … of research in economics. Our findings indicate that Europe is catching up with the US but, in terms of influential …

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