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Determination of the optimal number of strata for bias reduction in propensity score matching.

Akers, Allen - 2010

Previous research implementing stratification on the propensity score has generally relied on using five strata, based on prior theoretical groundwork and minimal empirical evidence as to the suitability of quintiles to adequately reduce bias in all cases and across all sample sizes. This study...

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Causal Effects of European Active Labor Market Policy : Foundations and Empirics

Kluve, Jochen - 2001

the statistical method of matching, a specific nonexperimental variant of the causal model laid out in the first part. …

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Evaluation Strategies in Labor Economics -- An Application to Post-Secondary Education

Augurzky, Boris - 2000

sogenannten 'matching' auf Ausbildungsfragen und schätzt den Effekt einer College Ausbildung auf Stundenlöhne. Sie stützt sich …The evaluation of social and individual investment into education and of its effects onlabor market results is of … central interest in any modern society. Usually, opinionsabout the economic and social return to education favor an optimistic …

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Three Essays on Semiparametric Methods for the Evaluation of Social Programs.

Busso, Matias - 2008

properties of several semiparametric estimators of average treatment effects, including IPW, matching and double robust …

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Matching Issues: An auction with externalities and unraveling matching markets

Ranger, Martin - 2005

This dissertation examines two problems that may arise in matching problems.The first two chapters deal with auctions …

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Two-sided matchings and cliques

Haake, Ulrike - 2005

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When do Systematic Gains Uniquely Determine the Number of Marriages between Different Types in the Choo-Siow matching model? Sufficient Conditions for a Unique Equilibrium

Decker, Colin - 2010

gumbel distributed stochastic part, and derived its equilibrium output, a marriage match- ing function. The marriage matching …

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Using Peer Firms to Examine whether Auditor Industry Specialization Improves Audit Quality and to Enhance Expectation Models for Analytical Audit Procedures

Minutti Meza, Miguel - 2011

, measured using auditor market share by industry, improves audit quality. After matching clients of specialist and non …

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Dual employment protection legislation : a framework for analysis

Dolado Lobregad, Juan José; Jansen, Marcel; Jimeno … - 2005

In many countries, Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) establishes different regulations for certain groups of workers who face more disadvantages in the labor market (young workers, women, unskilled workers, etc.) with the aim of improving their employability. Well-known examples are the...

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Sequential Pre-Marital Investment Games: Implications for Unemployment

Boudreau, James W. - 2008

Agents on the same side of a two-sided matching market (such as the marriage or labor market) compete with each other … generally occur prior to matching, this activity has come to be known in recent literature (Peters, 2007) as pre … matching game in which one side of the market invests first, followed by the other. Interpreting the first group of agents as …

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