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death rate given disease contraction. The cost effectiveness of treatment relative to prevention, country specific …A four-period game is developed between a policy maker, the international community, and the population. This research … supplements, through implementing strategic interaction, earlier research analyzing "one player at a time". The first two players …
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under which youth are assigned to behavioral treatment programs. The administrative data allow for a rich set of controls … for observed family- and youth-specific heterogeneity. In addition, the treatment assignment rules create discontinuous … thresholds among youth who are deemed eligible or not eligible for treatment, rules which the study exploits empirically to …
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In the second part of the 1990?s Switzerland conducted an ambitious active labour market policy (ALMP) encompassing a wide variety of programmes. We evaluate the effects of these programmes on the individual employment probability of potential participants. Our econometric analysis uses...
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This paper measures the value of functional capacity improvement from electronic pain treatment among a sample of Dutch … compared with administrative data of healthy workers to calibrate the treatment?s net present value of capacity improvement … treatment. The value of advanced improvement, when on-the-job learning capacity is recovered, amounts to 150,000 Dutch guilders …
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We investigate the effect of counseling and monitoring on the individual transition rate to employment. We theoretically analyze these policies in a job search model with two search channels and endogenous search effort. In the empirical analysis we use unique administrative and survey data...
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This paper implements a method to identify and estimate treatment effects in a dynamic setting where treatments may … that effects of the treatment on the treated at a given date can be identified even though non-treated may be treated later … duration until treatment and the counterfactual durations until exit. To illustrate the approach, the paper studies the effect …
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This paper implements a method to identify and estimate treatment effects in a dynamic setting where treatments may … that effects of the treatment on the treated at a given date can be identified even though non-treated may be treated later … duration until treatment and the counterfactual durations until exit. To illustrate the approach, the paper studies the effect …
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We structurally estimate a novel job search model with endogenous job search effort, job quality dispersion, and effort monitoring, taking into account that monitoring effects may be mitigated by on-the-job search and search channel substitution. The data are from a randomized experiment...
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applied matching and treatment methodology, the significant Olympic export effect disappears. …
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-matching groups of countries might suffer from a selection bias. We demonstrate that with an appropriate matching and treatment …
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