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Evaluation of Development Policy: Treatment versus Program Effects

Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem - 2009

There is a growing interest, notably in development economics, in extending project evaluation methods to the evaluation of multiple interventions (“programs”). In program evaluations one is interested in the aggregate impact of a program rather than the effect on individual beneficiaries....

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Evaluation of Development Programs: Using Regressions to assess the Impact of Complex Interventions

Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem - 2012

presence of selection effects and treatment heterogeneity. As an example we present an estimate of the TPE for a rural water …

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The Impact of Later Tracking on Mortality by Parental Income in Finland

Ravesteijn, Bastian; van Kippersluis, Hans; Avendano, … - 2017

We investigate whether later educational tracking reduced the intergenerational persistence of socioeconomic disparities in mortality in Finland,where the tracking age was raised from 11 to 16 in the 1970s. We use a difference-in-differences approach that exploits the gradual rollout of the...

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eHealth : Wie Smartphones, Apps und Wearables die Gesundheitsversorgung verändern werden

Andelfinger, Volker P. (ed.); Hänisch Till (ed.) - 2016 - 1. Aufl. 2016

eHealth – eine Begriffsbestimmung -- Consumerization des Gesundheitswesens -- Exkurs: Telemedizin – Chance für eine bessere Behandlung? -- Sind die Daten sicher? - Privacy gestern, heute, morgen -- eHealth: Grundlagen und Bedeutung für die Gesundheitssysteme heute und morgen -- Was wissen...

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Quantifying Productivity Gains from Foreign Investment

Fons-Rosen, Christian; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; Sorensen, … - 2013

We quantify the causal effect of foreign investment on total factor productivity (TFP) using a new global firm-level database. Our identification strategy relies on exploiting the difference in the amount of foreign investment by financial and industrial investors and simultaneously controlling...

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Contemporary Trends and Challenges in Finance : Proceedings from the 3rd Wroclaw International Conference in Finance

Jajuga, Krzysztof (ed.); Locarek-Junge, Hermann (ed.); … - Wrocław International Conference in Finance <3., 2017, … - 2018

This volume includes a selection of the contributions presented at the Wroclaw conference in Finance, covering a wide …

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Digital Insurance : Business Innovation in the Post-Crisis Era

Nicoletti, Bernardo - 2016

revenue, cost efficiency and control, as well as improved business agility in the insurance industry …

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Competitive Dynamics in the Global Insurance Industry : Strategic Groups, Competitive Moves, and Firm Performance

Schimmer, Markus - 2012

This book explores causes and consequences of interfirm rivalry within the global insurance industry. Based on three …

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Insurance Transformed : Technological Disruption

Naylor, Michael - 2017

This book explores how a range of innovative disruptive technologies is about to combine to transform the insurance … industry, the products it produces, and the way the industry is managed. It argues that unless current insurance providers … insurance industry participants as well as to academics interested in insurance and understanding the key issues the industry …

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Handbook of International Insurance : Between Global Dynamics and Local Contingencies

Cummins, J. David (ed.); Venard, Bertrand (ed.) - 2007

International Insurance Markets: Between Global Dynamics and Local Contingencies—An Introduction -- The United States … Insurance Market: Characteristics and Trends -- The Japanese Insurance Market and Companies: Recent Trends -- The UK Insurance … Industry—Structure and Performance -- The French Insurance Market: Background and Trends -- The German Insurance Industry …

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