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Modeling event studies with heterogeneous treatment effects

Argys, Laura M.; Mroz, Thomas A.; Pitts, M. Melinda - 2023

, without additional information, of limited use for assessing posttreatment variations in the treatment effects. The simple …

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Forecasted treatment effects

Botosaru, Irene; Giacomini, Raffaella; Weidner, Martin - 2023

We consider estimation and inference about the effects of a policy in the absence of a control group. We obtain unbiased estimators of individual (heterogeneous) treatment effects and a consistent and asymptotically normal estimator of the average treatment effects, based on forecasting...

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How local are local governments? Heterogeneous effects of intergovernmental grants

Nilsson, Heléne L. - 2009

While the literature on how intergovernmental grants affect the budget of receiving jurisdictions is numerous, the very few studies that explicitly deal with likely endogeneity problems focus on grants targeted towards specific sectors or to specific type of recipients. The results from these...

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Same-sex teacher effects

de Gendre, Alexandra; Feld, Jan; Salamanca, Nicolás; … - 2024

The idea that students benefit from same-sex teachers has motivated policies around the world aimed at reducing gender inequalities. However, we do not know the size or generalizability of such same-sex teacher effects. We fill this gap by conducting a meta-analysis and our own study using data...

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Same-sex role model effects in education

de Gendre, Alexandra; Feld, Jan; Salamanca, Nicolás; … - 2023

We study same-sex role model effects of teachers with a meta-analysis and our own study of three million students in 90 countries. Both approaches show that role model effects on performance are, on average, small: 0.030 SD in the meta-analysis and 0.015 SD in our multi-country study. Going...

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Laboratory measure of cheating predicts misbehavior at school

Cohn, Alain; Maréchal, Michel André - 2015

We study the external validity of a standard laboratory measure of cheating. The results show that cheating in the lab significantly predicts classroom misbehavior in middle and high school students.

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Laboratory measure of cheating predicts school misconduct

Cohn, Alain; Maréchal, Michel André - 2016

We conducted an experiment with middle and high school students to test the external validity of a common laboratory measure of cheating. Subjects performed several coin tosses and earned money depending on the outcomes they reported. Because the coin tosses were not monitored, subjects faced a...

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Access of the poor to water supply and sanitation in India: Salient concepts, issues and cases

Jha, Nitish - 2010

parallel subsector of sanitation progress is falling far short of the mark. In reality, most basic observations indicate that … water supply coverage is not as good as the figures show while national sanitation continues to be poor even after almost … factors constrain access to safe drinking water and proper sanitation in India for both the urban and rural poor, and that …

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Detecting Informed Trading Activities in the OptionsMarkets

Chesney, Marc; Crameri, Remo; Mancini, Loriano - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich> - 2009

This paper presents a new method to detect informed trading activities in the options markets.An option trade is identified as informed when it is characterized by an unusual largeincrement in open interest and volume, induces large gains, and is not hedged in the stock market.For the period...

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International Capital Flows under DispersedInformation: Theory and Evidence

Tille, Cédric; Van Wincoop, Eric - Finrisk - 2008

We develop a new theory of international capital flows based on dispersed in-formation across individual investors …-standing asset price behavior. We introduce information dispersion into an openeconomy dynamic general equilibrium portfolio choice … model, and emphasize twoimplications for capital flows that are specic to the presence of dispersed infor-mation. First …

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