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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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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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For Better and for Worse - How Unpaid Bride Wealth provides Security

Hoogeveen, Hans - 2000

insurance mechanisms, bride wealth qualifies as an importantsecurity enhancing institution: the arrangement covers nearly the …

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Dynamic Insurance and Adverse Selection

Janssen, Maarten C.W.; Karamychev, Vladimir A. - 2001

We take a dynamic perspective on insurance markets under adverseselection and study a generalized Rothschildand … dynamic contracts. An unconditional dynamiccontract has insurance companies offeringcontracts where the terms of the contract … on individualpast performance (like in car insurances). Weinvestigate whether allowing insurance companies to offer …

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Insurance and Information: Firms as a Commitment Device

Bovenberg, A.L.; Teulings, Coen N. - 2001

contracts to crowd out implicit insurance, even though the latter yields higher welfare.Integrating the principal-agent and …

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Risk Diversification by European Financial Conglomerates

Slijkerman, Jan Frederik; Schoenmaker, Dirk; de Vries, … - 2005

We study the dependence between the downside risk of European banks and insurers. Since the downside risk of banks and insurers differs, an interesting question from a supervisory point of view is the risk reduction that derives from diversification within large banks and financial...

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Risk Pooling through Transfers in Rural Ethiopia

Pan, Lei - 2007

It is often assumed that transfers received from governments, nongovernment organizations (NGOs), friends and relatives help rural households to pool risk. In this paper I investigate two functions of transfers in Ethiopia: risk pooling and income redistribution. Unlike most of the literature...

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Going Through The Roof: On Prices for Drugs Sold Through Insurance

Kamphorst, Jurjen; Karamychev, Vladimir - 2021

We offer a theory of how the combination of budget constraints and insurance drives up prices. A natural context for … our theory is the health care market, where drug prices can be very high. Our model predicts that monopoly prices for …

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