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Some practical guidance for the implementation of propensity score matching
Caliendo, Marco; Kopeinig, Sabine - 2005
researcher has decided to use PSM, he is confronted with a lot of questions regarding its implementation. To begin with, a first …. Each implementation step involves a lot of decisions and different approaches can be thought of. The aim of this paper is … to discuss these implementation issues and give some guidance to researchers who want to use PSM for evaluation purposes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267553
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Hidden action, identification, and organization design
Schnedler, Wendelin - 2010
Incentives often fail in inducing economic agents to engage in a desirable activity; implementability is restricted. What restricts implementability? When does re-organization help to overcome this restriction? This paper shows that any restriction of implementability is caused by an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278365
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Education and optimal dynamic taxation
Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2011
optimum. In one implementation there is a common labor income tax schedule, and a repayment schedule for government loans …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282325
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Education and Optimal Dynamic Taxation
Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
optimum. In one implementation there is a common labor income tax schedule, and a repayment schedule for government loans …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009359855
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Hidden Action, Identification, and Organization Design
Schnedler, Wendelin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Incentives often fail in inducing economic agents to engage in a desirable activity; implementability is restricted. What restricts implementability? When does re-organization help to overcome this restriction? This paper shows that any restriction of implementability is caused by an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727777
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Some Practical Guidance for the Implementation of Propensity Score Matching
Caliendo, Marco; Kopeinig, Sabine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
researcher has decided to use PSM, he is confronted with a lot of questions regarding its implementation. To begin with, a first …. Each implementation step involves a lot of decisions and different approaches can be thought of. The aim of this paper is … to discuss these implementation issues and give some guidance to researchers who want to use PSM for evaluation purposes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703025
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The Short-Run Macro Implications of School and Child-Care Closures
Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola; Kuhn, Moritz; Tertilt, Michèle - 2020
German workforce have children aged 14 or younger and estimate that 11 percent of workers and 8 percent of all working hours …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270031
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Consumption and Savings with Unemployment Risk : Implications for Optimal Employment Contracts
Pissarides, Christopher A. - 2004
This paper derives optimal employment contracts when workers are risk averse and there are employment and unemployment risks. Without income insurance, consumption rises during employment and falls during unemployment. Optimal employment contracts offer severance compensation and sometimes give...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261928
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Exporting Firms Do Not Pay Higher Wages, Ceteris Paribus : First Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
Wagner, Joachim; Schnabel, Claus; Schank, Thorsten - 2004
18 studies using data from 20 highly developed, developing, and less developed countries document that average wages in exporting firms are higher than in non-exporting firms from the same industry and region. The existence of these so-called exporter wage premia is one of the stylized facts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261930
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Options to Quit
Pfann, Gerard A. - 2000
This paper develops a theoretical model of a worker?s decision problem under uncertainty about the optimal separation time, when holding a representative outside offer but facing fixed costs of quitting. Implications of the model?s closed form solution are consistent with the quit behavior of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262405