Showing 1 - 10 of 17
This paper empirically analyzes moral hazard in car insurance using a dynamic theory of an insuree's dynamic risk (ex …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325921
We study risk-based selection into a voluntary unemployment insurance (UI) scheme. To disentangle behavioral effects … from selection, we exploit variation in the sign-up induced by an early retirement scheme embedded into the UI system. We … combine an event study with a difference-in-difference approach applied to Danish register data to quantify the selection. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013356496
health-related selection of individuals into self-employment (barrier effect). Our main finding is that the selection of …The self-employed are often reported to be healthier than wage workers; however, the cause of this health difference is … largely unknown. The longitudinal nature of the US Health and Retirement Study allows us to gauge the plausibility of two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326168
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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325967
presence of selection effects and treatment heterogeneity. As an example we present an estimate of the TPE for a rural water …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326352
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011662528
This paper examines the empirical analysis of treatment effects on duration outcomes from data that contain instrumental variation. We focus on social experiments in which an intention to treat is randomized and compliance may be imperfect. We distinguish between cases where the treatment starts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325158
selection is a serious issue. In addition to shedding light onthe sources of the gender gap in the Netherlands, we make two … simulate. Second, we show how the technique can be extended toaccount for selection.We find that there is a positive selection … time. We find that about two-thirds of this selection isdue to observables such as education and experience with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325227
Boards of directors face the twin task of disciplining and screening executives. To perform these tasks directors do not have detailed information about executives' behaviour, and only infrequently have information about the success or failure of initiated strategies, reorganizations, mergers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325378
We study career choice when competition for promotion is a contest. A more meritocratic profession always succeeds in attracting the highest ability types, whereas a profession with superior promotion benefits attracts high types only if the hazard rate of the noise in performance evaluation is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326280