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Treatment Effect Heterogeneity in Theory and Practice
Angrist, Joshua D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
estimate the effect of child-bearing on economic and marital outcomes. The application is motivated by American welfare reform … childbearing, but evidence on the impact of childbearing on marital stability and welfare use is more tenuous. …
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Running hard and falling behind: A welfare analysis of two-earner families
Moore, Robert E.; Kassis, Mary Mathewes; Hotchkiss, Julie L. - In: Journal of Population Economics 10 (1997) 3, pp. 237-250
This paper investigates the commonly asserted proposition that long term economic changes have put the family in a financial bind. Structural parameters of a family utility model are obtained by estimating simultaneous labor supply functions for a two-earner household. We find evidence...
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SOCIAL INTERACTIONS AT THE WORKPLACE: EXPLORING SICKNESS ABSENCE BEHAVIOR.
Rieck, Karsten Marshall Elseth; Vaage, Kjell - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2012
We investigate whether a worker’s sickness absence is affected by her colleagues’ absences from the workplace. The analysis is based on unique matched employer-employee data for Norwegian schoolteachers for the period 2001 to 2006 with information on different types of absences and multiple...
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Did Vietnam Veterans Get Sicker in the 1990s? The Complicated Effects of Military Service on Self-Reported Health
Angrist, Joshua D.; Chen, Stacey H.; Frandsen, Brigham R. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010
The veterans disability compensation (VDC) program, which provides a monthly stipend to disabled veterans, is the third largest American disability insurance program. Since the late 1990s, VDC growth has been driven primarily by an increase in claims from Vietnam veterans, raising concerns about...
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Mixing Welfare and Work: Evidence from the PSID, 1980-87
Chapman, Richard; Duncan, Kevin; Gray, Jerry - In: Eastern Economic Journal 24 (1998) 1, pp. 51-62
Evidence from the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics (PSID) suggests that those with a history of mixing welfare and work … are more likely to continue mixing rather than be in another welfare or labor market state. This finding supports the view … that, without a welfare subsidy, jobs held by working welfare recipients will not provide for self sufficiency. We find no …
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Labour Market Matters - December 2013
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2013
The Universal Child Care Benefit (UCCB) represents one of the largest transfer programs administered by the Canadian government, representing 4.5 percent of federal transfers to individuals. The UCCB – which provides $100 monthly to parents for every child under six years of age –...
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Less Cash, Less Crime: Evidence from the Electronic Benefit Transfer Program
Wright, Richard; Tekin, Erdal; Topalli, Volkan; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
stems from public assistance or welfare payments. In the 1990s, the Federal government mandated individual states to convert … the delivery of their welfare program benefits from paper checks to an Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) system, whereby …
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Earnings Effects of Training Programs
Lechner, Michael; Melly, Blaise - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
In an evaluation of a job-training program, the influence of the program on the individual earnings capacity is important, because it reflects the program effect on human capital. Estimating these effects is complicated because earnings are observed for employed individuals only, and employment...
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Earnings Effects of Training Programs
Lechner, Michael; Melly, Blaise - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
In an evaluation of a job-training program, the influence of the program on the individual earnings capacity is important, because it reflects the program effect on human capital. Estimating these effects is complicated because earnings are observed for employed individuals only, and employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005114283
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Nonparametric analysis of treatment effects in ordered response models
Boes, Stefan - In: Empirical Economics 44 (2013) 1, pp. 81-109
Treatment analyses based on average outcomes do not immediately generalize to the case of ordered responses because the expectation of an ordinally measured variable does not exist. The proposed remedy in this paper is a shift in focus to distributional effects. Assuming a threshold crossing...
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