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Interlinked Transactions in Cash Cropping Economies: The Determinants of Farmer Participation and Performance in the Zambezi River Valley of Mozambique
Benfica, Rui M.S.; Tschirley, David L.; Boughton, Duncan - 2006
This paper investigates the determinants of participation and performance of tobacco contract farmers, and the effects of participation on overall crop and household incomes in the Zambezi Valley of Mozambique. We test the existence of threshold effects in land holdings and educational...
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Three Essays on Semiparametric Econometric Evaluation Methods
Maier, Michael - 2008
This dissertation introduces three novel approaches for the econometric evaluation of heterogeneous treatment effects. The proposed methods consider the effects of a binary treatment on different characteristics of the outcome distribution.Section 1 proposes an estimation method for various...
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The impact of the euro on euro area GDP per capita
Fernández Vidaurreta, Cristina; García Perea, Pilar - 2015
Este artículo aborda la siguiente pregunta: ¿cuál habría sido el PIB per cápita del área del euro si no se hubiese creado la unión monetaria? Para intentar contestarla, utilizamos la metodología de control sintético [Abadie y Gardeázabal (2003) y Abadie et al. (2010)]. Nuestros...
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ESSAYS IN DEMOGRAPHIC ECONOMICS
Reinhold, Steffen - 2008
led to greater cohabitation and hence less self-selection within this group. Causalmodeling using matching and panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429603
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Long-Term Unemployment and Subsidizing Vacancies in a Growth-Matching Model
Birk, Angela - 2001
How can long-term unemployment be reduced by policy measures of the government? In this paper a growth-matching … geeignete Politikmaßnahmen des Staates reduziert werden? In diesem Artikel wird ein Wachstums-Matching-Modell entwickelt, das …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442378
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Qualification-Mismatch and Long-Term Unemployment in a Growth-Matching Model
Birk, Angela - 2001
of growth attributable to technical progress is evaluated in a growth-matching-model with heterogeneous jobless workers … Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit und der Wachstumsrate des technischen Fortschritts wird in einem Wachstums-Matching-Modell mit heterogenen …
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L’IMPACT DU CAPITAL HUMAIN SUR LA PRODUCTIVITE AGRICOLE AU BURKINA FASO
Theophile, Kabore - 2010
matching utilisé habituellement pour évaluer l’impact de politique sur une population donnée a été utilisée comme méthode d … Score Matching usually used to estimate the impact of social or economic policies on target groups. By the matching method …
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Essays on crime and search frictions
Engelhardt, Bryan - 2008
search and matching model of the labor market. All workers, irrespective of their labor force status can commit crimes and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009466027
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Three Essays on Matching Estimators
Flossmann, Anton - 2008
This dissertation is a collection of three stand-alone research papers. Thereby, the class of local polynomial matching … estimators is the central object of investigation. The first essay concentrates on applying local polynomial matching methods in … algorithms for the matching estimator. …
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Zur Wirksamkeit der "Förderung beruflicher Weiterbildung" (FbW)
Jansen, Marcus - 2005
Evaluationsansätze auf Basis von Matchingverfahren werden heute weitgehend als superiores Instrument zur Bewertung der Wirksamkeit der Förderung beruflicher Weiterbildung angesehen. Die vorliegende Arbeit gibt zu bedenken, dass solche Verfahren ungenaue Schätzergebnissen generieren, wenn eine...
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