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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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The Value of Statistical Life in Road Safety: A Meta-Analysis
de Blaeij, Arianne; Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; Rietveld, Piet - 2000
Accident costs are an important component of the external costs of traffic, a substantial part of whichis related to fatal accidents. The evaluation of fatal accident costs crucially depends on theavailability of an estimate for the economic value of a statistical life. The aim of the...
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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288388
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Who can predict their own Demise? Accuracy of Longevity Expectations by Education and Cognition
Bago d'Uva, Teresa; Erdogan Ciftci, Esen; O'Donnell, Owen; … - 2015
Biased longevity expectations will lead to suboptimal decisions regarding saving, retirement, annuitization and health … explain heterogeneity in economic behaviour by education and cognitive functioning. Analysis of eight waves of the US Health …
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