experimental variation in program design is unavailable, we exploit the 2011 reform of the current German SUS program for the … estimate the impact of the reform on the program’s effectiveness using samples of participants and non-participants from before … and after the reform. To control for time-constant unobserved heterogeneity as well as differential selection patterns …

been low investment, held back by lack of strong and independent institutions. This paper aims to assess the major areas of … economic institutions and market development. Our analysis identifies the legal system as the area where the institutional … a methodology that accounts for positive spillovers between the structural reform areas, we estimate that even under the …

experimental variation in program design is unavailable, we exploit the 2011 reform of the current German SUS program for the … estimate the impact of the reform on the program's effectiveness using samples of participants and non-participants from before … and after the reform. To control for time-constant unobserved heterogeneity as well as differential selection patterns …

In this paper we study how differences in the quality of countries' institutions affect the impact of natural hazards in … output distance frontier model to assess two important aspects of the relation-ship between institutions and hazard impacts … else equal, suffer relative to the best performing countries. We can refer to this as the countries' (in)efficiency at …