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Matching estimators of average treatment effects: a review applied to the evaluation of health care programmes

Moreno-Serra, Rodrigo - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2007

The general aim of this paper is to review how matching methods try to solve the evaluation problem – with a particular … focus on propensity score matching – and their usefulness for the particular case of health programme evaluation. The … “classical” case of matching estimation with a single discrete treatment is presented as a basis for discussing recent …

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Structural Estimation and Policy Evaluation in Developing Countries

Todd, Petra E.; Wolpin, Kenneth I. - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2009

This paper discusses the use of discrete choice dynamic programming (DCDP) methods for evaluating policies of particular relevance to developing countries, such as policies to reduce child labor and increase school attendance, to improve school quality, to affect immigration flows, to expand old...

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Labor supply consequences of family taxation: Evidence from the Czech Republic

Kalíšková, Klára - In: Labour Economics 30 (2014) C, pp. 234-244

While joint taxation is fairly widespread across European countries, the evidence of its labor supply effects is scarce due to a lack of recent policy changes. This study makes use of the introduction of joint taxation in the Czech Republic in 2005 to estimate its effect on married couples'...

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Benefit-Entitlement Effects and the Duration of Unemployment: An Ex-Ante Evaluation of Recent Labour Market Reforms in Germany

Schmitz, Hendrik; Steiner, Viktor - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We analyse benefit-entitlement effects and the likely impact of the recent reform of the unemployment compensation system on the duration of unemployment in Germany on the basis of a flexible discrete-time hazard rate model estimated on pre-reform data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP)....

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Does 401(K) Eligibility Increase Saving? Evidence from Propensity Score Subclassification

Benjamin, Daniel J. - 2005

By comparing 401(k) eligible and ineligible households' wealth, this paper estimates that, on average, about one half of 401(k) balances represent new private savings, and about one quarter of 401(k) balances represent new national savings. Responses to eligibility vary considerably, however,...

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The Disincentive Effect of Social Assistance on French Young Workers

BARGAIN, O.; VICARD, A. - Département des Études Économiques d'Ensemble (D3E), … - 2012

In metropolitan France, in the absence of a child, only those aged 25 and older are eligible to the minimum income (called RSA since June 2009, or RMI before that date). This article assesses whether the RMI or the RSA discourages young people to work. If this was indeed the case, we should...

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Private monetary transfers and altruism: an empirical investigation on Italian families

Aldieri, Luigi; Fiorillo, Damiano - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The aim of this paper is to explore the motivation of monetary transfers received by household heads. Indeed, the financial transfers may be motivated by altruism or by the expectation of future services. For this reason, we select a sample of Italian families from the 2006 European Union...

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Intergenerational Social Mobility in European OECD Countries

Causa, Orsetta; Dantan, Sophie; Johansson, Åsa - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2009

This paper breaks new ground by providing comparable estimates of intergenerational wage and education persistence across 14 European OECD countries based on a new micro data from Eurostat. A further novelty is that it examines the potential role of public policies and labour and product market...

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How Successful is the Dual Income Tax? Evidence from the Finnish Tax Reform of 1993

Pirttilä, Jukka; Selin, Håkan - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2006

Dual income tax systems have become increasingly popular; yet, relatively little is <p> known about the consequences of implementing such tax systems. This paper uses a representative panel of taxpayers from the 1993 Finnish tax reform to measure how overall taxable income and the relative shares...</p>

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Pensions and Fertility: Back to the Roots - The Introduction of Bismarck's Pension Scheme and the European Fertility Decline

Fenge, Robert; Scheubel, Beatrice - CESifo - 2013

Fertility has long been declining in industrialised countries and the existence of public pension systems is considered as one of the causes. This paper is the first to provide detailed evidence based on historical data on the mechanism by which a public pension system depresses fertility. Our...

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