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Real wages and the business cycles in Germany
Marczak, Martyna; Beissinger, Thomas - 2010
This paper establishes stylized facts about the cyclicality of real consumer wages and real producer wages in Germany. As detrending methods we apply the deterministic trend model, the Beveridge-Nelson decomposition, the Hodrick-Prescott filter, the Baxter-King filter and the structural time...
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Quantile treatment effects in the regression discontinuity design: Process results and gini coefficient
Frölich, Markus; Melly, Blaise - 2010
This paper shows nonparametric identification of quantile treatment effects (QTE) in the regression discontinuity design. The distributional impacts of social programs such as welfare, education, training programs and unemployment insurance are of large interest to economists. QTE are an...
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Non-parametric inference for the effect of a treatment on survival times with application in the health and social sciences
Luna, Xavier de; Johansson, Per - 2009
In this paper we perform inference on the effect of a treatment on survival times in studies where the treatment assignment is not randomized and the assignment time is not known in advance. Two such studies are discussed: a heart transplant program and a study of Swedish unemployed eligible for...
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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 … variable models. Including covariates in the estimation of LATE is necessary when the instrumental variable itself is …
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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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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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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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Treatment evaluation in the case of interactions within markets
Ferracci, Marc; Jolivet, Grégory; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2010
within the market, averaged over the full population, we develop an identification and estimation method in two steps. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277334
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The effect of disability on labour market outcomes in Germany : evidence from matching
Lechner, Michael; Vazquez-Alvarez, Rosalia - 2003
improving the identification and estimation strategy. Using the German Socio Economic Panel (1984-2001) we estimate the impact …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261660
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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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