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Assessing bias in the estimation of causal effects: Rosenbaum bounds on matching estimators and instrumental variables estimation with imperfect instruments

DiPrete, Thomas A.; Gangl, Markus - 2004

Propensity score matching provides an estimate of the effect of a 'treatment' variable on an outcome variable that is … largely free of bias arising from an association between treatment status and observable variables. However, matching methods … undermine the conclusions about causal effects from a matching analysis. Instrumental variables (IV) estimation provides an …

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Causal effects of monetary shocks: semiparametric conditional independence tests with a multinomial propensity score

Angrist, Joshua D.; Kuersteiner, Guido M. - 2008

Macroeconomists have long been concerned with the causal effects of monetary policy. When the identification of causal effects is based on a selection-on-observables assumption, non-causality amounts to the conditional independence of outcomes and policy changes. This paper develops a...

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Programme Evaluation with Multiple Treatments

Frölich, Markus - 2002

nonparametric matching and weighting estimators of the average treatment effects and their properties are examined. …

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The microeconometric estimation of treatment effects: an overview

Caliendo, Marco; Hujer, Reinhard - 2005

The need to evaluate the performance of active labour market policies is not questioned any longer. Even though OECD countries spend significant shares of national resources on these measures, unemployment rates remain high or even increase. We focus on microeconometric evaluation which has to...

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Bandwidth selection and the estimation of treatment effects with unbalanced data

Galdo, Jose; Smith, Jeffrey A.; Black, Dan - 2007

using matching methods. Because precise estimation of the expected counterfactual is particularly important in regions …

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Decomposition of the gender wage gap using matching: an application for Switzerland

Djurdjevic, Dragana; Radyakin, Sergiy - 2005

Force Survey, we apply a matching method to decompose the wage gap in Switzerland. Compared to the traditional Oaxaca …In this paper, we investigate the gender wage differentials for Switzerland. Using micro data from the Swiss Labour …

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Life-cycle equilibrium unemployment

Chéron, Arnaud; Hairault, Jean-Olivier; Langot, François - 2008

This paper develops a life-cycle approach to equilibrium unemployment. Workers only differ respectively to their distance from deterministic retirement. A non age-directed search equilibrium is then typically featured by increasing (decreasing) firing (hiring) rates with age and a hump-shaped...

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