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field experiment to measure the average effects of the treatment on eligible and ineligible subjects for the program in the …
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We estimate the direct and spillover effects of a large-scale early childhood intervention on the educational attainment of over 2,000 disadvantaged children in the United States. We show that failing to account for spillover effects results in a severe underestimation of the impact. The...
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experiment in India with a triple-differences estimation strategy, we show that a local development NGO’s prior engagement with … percent. This "NGO effect" has implications for the generalizability and scalability of evidence from experimental research …
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This paper uses the control function to develop a framework for testing for selection bias. The idea behind our … magnitude of potential selection bias. Averaging this correction term with respect to appropriate weights yields the degree of … selection bias for alternative treatment effects of interest. One advantage of our framework is that it motivates when is …
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Disability insurance (DI) beneficiaries lose part or all of their benefits if earnings exceed certain thresholds ("cash-cliffs"). This implicit taxation is considered the prime reason for the low number of beneficiaries who expand work and reduce benefit receipt. We analyse a conditional cash...
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Disability insurance (DI) beneficiaries lose part of their benefits if their earnings exceed certain thresholds ("cash-cliffs"). This implicit taxation is considered the prime reason for low DI outflow. We analyse a conditional cash program that incentivises work related reductions of disability...
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Disabled insurance (DI) beneficiaries lose benefits if labor incomes exceed certain thresholds (so called cash-cliffs ). The high implicit taxation of employment income is considered one of the prime reasons for the low outflow from the disability insurance. This paper presents the results of...
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experiment (the effect of boy-boy or girl-girl as the first two children on incremental fertility and mothers’ labor force … running a new experiment at a target site. …
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Disability insurance (DI) beneficiaries lose part of their benefits if their earnings exceed certain thresholds (“cash-cliffs”). This implicit taxation is considered the prime reason for low DI outflow. We analyse a conditional cash program that incentivises work related reductions of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039587
's outcomes. This improvement is observed in both the field experiment and the subsequent large-scale government adoption. We also …
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