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Treatment Effect Heterogeneity in Theory and Practice
Angrist, Joshua D. - 2004
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014075949
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Fertility effects of college education : evidence from the German educational expansion
Kamhöfer, Daniel A.; Westphal, Matthias - 2017
We estimate the effects of college education on female fertility - a so far understudied margin of education, which we instrument by arguably exogenous variation induced through college expansions. While college education reduces the probability of becoming a mother, college-educated mothers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011764444
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Testing the quantity-quality model of fertility : Estimation using unrestricted family size models
Mogstad, Magne; Wiswall, Matthew - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 7 (2016) 1, pp. 157-192
We examine the relationship between child quantity and quality. Motivated by the theoretical ambiguity regarding the sign of the marginal effects of additional siblings on children’s outcomes, our empirical model allows for an unrestricted relationship between family size and child outcomes....
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Treatment effect heterogeneity in theory and practice
Angrist, Joshua D. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Treatment effect heterogeneity in theory and practice
Angrist, Joshua D. - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 114 (2004) 494, pp. C52-83
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Treatment effect heterogeneity in theory and practice
Angrist, Joshua D. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001784276
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Treatment effect heterogeneity in theory and practice
Angrist, Joshua D. - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001759211
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The Twin Instrument : Fertility and Human Capital Investment
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2018
Twin births are often used to instrument fertility to address (negative) selection of women into fertility. However recent work shows positive selection of women into twin birth. Thus, while OLS estimates will tend to be downward biased, twin-IV estimates will tend to be upward biased. This is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908893
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The twin instrument : fertility and human capital investment
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian - 2018
Twin births are often used to instrument fertility to address (negative) selection of women into fertility. However recent work shows positive selection of women into twin birth. Thus, while OLS estimates will tend to be downward biased, twin-IV estimates will tend to be upward biased. This is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011925159
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Treatment Effect Heterogeneity in Theory and Practice
Angrist, Joshua D. - 2021
economic and marital outcomes for mothers with two or more children. The application is motivated by welfare reform, which … penalizes further childbearing by welfare mothers on the grounds that more children make continued poverty and welfare receipt … consequence of additional childbearing, but evidence on the impact of childbearing on marital stability and welfare use is more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013219964