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Your Retirement and My Health Behavior : Evidence on Retirement Externalities from a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design
Müller, Tobias - 2017
This paper presents evidence on intra-household retirement externalities by assessing the causal effect of spousal … retirement on various health behaviors and health status across 19 European countries. We identify partner's and own retirement … effects by applying a fuzzy regression discontinuity design using retirement eligibility as exogenous instruments for spousal …
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Retirement effects of heavy job demands
Henseke, Golo - 2011 - First version: April 2011
This study focuses on the influence of heavy job demands on retirement, using the available SHARE waves. Heavy job … demands may have a direct and health mediated effect on individual retirement. An econometric challenge is the dynamic self … levels of socioeconomic status. Heavy job demands are associated with on average higher retirement probabilities, once …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008936968
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Elections and government efficiency
Dorn, Florian - 2021
Politicians are expected to influence policy outcomes in a way to gain electoral advantage. There is, however, a pending question whether efficiency in the provision of public goods and services is affected by strategic behavior. I examine how electoral cycles influence local government...
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Chapter 7. Endogeneity in Empirical Corporate Finance 1
Roberts, Michael R.; Whited, Toni M. - 2013
This chapter discusses how applied researchers in corporate finance can address endogeneity concerns. We begin by reviewing the sources of endogeneity—omitted variables, simultaneity, and measurement error—and their implications for inference. We then discuss in detail a number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025557
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The causal impact of mental health on tobacco and alcohol consumption : an instrumental variables approach
Mitrou, Francis; Ha Trong Nguyen; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2023
The reciprocal relationship between psychiatric and substance use disorders is well-known, yet it remains largely unknown whether mental health morbidity causally leads to addictive behaviours. This paper utilises a fixed effects instrumental variables model, which is identified by time-varying...
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Estimating causal effects with observational data guidelines for agricultural and applied economists
Henningsen, Arne; Low, Guy; Wuepper, David; Dalhaus, Tobias - 2024
Most research questions in agricultural and applied economics are of a causal nature, i.e., how one or more variables (e.g., policies, prices, the weather) affect one or more other variables (e.g., the welfare of individuals or the society, the demanded or produced quantity, pollution). Only a...
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Estimating endogenous effects on ordinal outcomes
Chesher, Andrew; Rosen, Adam M.; Siddique, Zahra - 2019
Recent research underscores the sensitivity of conclusions drawn from the application of econometric methods devised for quantitative outcome variables to data featuring ordinal outcomes. The issue is particularly acute in the analysis of happiness data, for which no natural cardinal scale...
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Testing the internal validity of compulsory school reforms as instrument for years of schooling
Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Weber, Guglielmo; … - 2013
In the large empirical literature that investigates the causal effects of education on outcomes such as health, wages and crime, it is customary to measure education with years of schooling, and to identify these effects using the exogenous variation provided by school reforms increasing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011730585
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Naturalization and labor market performance of immigrants in Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Saif, Salwan - 2018
Naturalization may be a relevant policy instrument affecting immigrant integration in host-country labor markets. We study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in Germany. We apply recent survey data and exploit a reform of naturalization rules in an instrumental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011897300
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Naturalization and labor market performance of immigrants in Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Saif, Salwan - 2018
Naturalization may be a relevant policy instrument affecting immigrant integration in host-country labor markets. We study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in Germany. We apply recent survey data and exploit a reform of naturalization rules in an instrumental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011898989