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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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Risk Aversion and the Subjective Time Discount Rate: A Joint Approach

van Praag, Bernard M.S.; Booij, Adam S. - 2003

In this paper we analyze a large sample of individual responses to six lottery questions. Wederive a simultaneous estimate of risk aversion ? and the time preference discount rate ? perindividual. This can be done because the consumption of a large prize is smoothed over a largertime period. It...

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The Information Content of a Stated Choice Experiment

Rouwendal, Jan; de Blaeij, Arianne; Rietveld, Piet; … - 2008

This paper presents a method to assess the distribution of values of time, and values of statistical life, over participants to a stated choice experiment, that does not require the researcher to make an a priori assumption on the type of distribution, as is required for example for mixed logit...

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Can we measure Individual Risk Attitudes in a Survey?

Ding, Xiaohao; Hartog, Joop; Sun, Yuze - 2010

We combine a survey and an experiment with real pay-out among Peking University students to measure and validate individual risk attitudes. The experiment involves choosing between a cash payment and playing a lottery. The survey questions ask for the reservation price of a hypothetical lottery...

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Composite Valuation of Immaterial Damage in Flooding: Value of Statistical Life, Value of Statistical Evacuation and Value of Statistical Injury

Bockarjova, Marija; Rietveld, Piet; Verhoef, Erik T. - 2012

This paper enriches existing valuation literature in a number of ways by presenting context-specific estimates of immaterial damage. First, it offers an estimation of value of statistical life (VOSL) in the context of a natural hazard (flooding). Next, as one of the contributions, alongside with...

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Scale, Scope and Cognition: Context Analysis of Multiple Stated Choice Experiments on the Values of Life and Limb

Bockarjova, Marija; Rietveld, Piet; Verhoef, Erik T. - 2012

In this paper we use data from an SP study on flood safety in the Netherlands, and elicit individual preferences for reduction of risk to life and limb. We perform context analysis to test the robustness of fatality risk valuation throughout choice experiments. The main interest of this paper is...

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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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Thought for Food: Understanding Educational Disparities in Food Consumption

Koç, Hale; van Kippersluis, Hans - 2015

discriminate between the theoretical parameters. Differences in health knowledge appear to be responsible for the greatest part of … the education disparity in diet. However, when faced with the most explicit health information regarding diet, lower … educated individuals still state choices that imply a lower concern for negative health consequences. This is consistent with a …

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