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Beyond Cash : Assessing Externality and Behaviour Effects of Non-Experimental Cash Transfers
Ribas, Rafael P. - 2018
In this paper we propose a method to estimate externality effects in cash transfer programmes, even in cases when the benefit is not randomly assigned. Externality is assessed through the decomposition of the average treatment effect on the treated (ATT) into participation (direct) effect and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938155
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Beyond Cash : Assessing Externality and Behaviour Effects of Non-Experimental Cash Transfers
Ribas, Rafael P. - 2018
In this paper we propose a method to estimate externality effects in cash transfer programmes, even in cases when the benefit is not randomly assigned. Externality is assessed through the decomposition of the average treatment effect on the treated (ATT) into participation (direct) effect and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012940357
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What is the value added by using causal machine learning methods in a welfare experiment evaluation?
Strittmatter, Anthony - 2019 - First Draft: September 17, 2018
I investigate causal machine learning (CML) methods to estimate effect heterogeneity by means of conditional average treatment effects (CATEs). In particular, I study whether the estimated effect heterogeneity can provide evidence for the theoretical labour supply predictions of Connecticut's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012232107
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What is the value added by using causal machine learning methods in a welfare experiment evaluation?
Strittmatter, Anthony - 2019
Recent studies have proposed causal machine learning (CML) methods to estimate conditional average treatment effects (CATEs). In this study, I investigate whether CML methods add value compared to conventional CATE estimators by re-evaluating Connecticut's Jobs First welfare experiment. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161467
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Chapter 18 The economics of disability and disability policy
Haveman, Robert; Wolfe, Barbara - In: Handbook of health economics : volume 1, part B, (pp. 995-1051). 2000
comparing US disability policy with that in other Western industrialized countries and identifying research issues that are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014024187
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The Effects of Special Economic Zones on Employment and Investment : Spatial Panel Modelling Perspective
Cizkowicz, Piotr - 2016
We estimate the set of panel and spatial panel data models of employment and investments for 379 Polish counties over … includes about 30,000 observations. We find that SSEs have substantial positive effects on employment: jobs in a given SSE …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013003896
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Welfare benefit reforms and employment
Aloi, Marta; Lloyd-Braga, Teresa; Leite-Monteiro, Manuel - 2017
implications for employment and income of welfare schemes often advocated as less distortionary. We show that reducing unemployment … benefits in favour of income subsidies (social benefits) reduces employment in general equilibrium and also the income of low … deterioration. To support employment, we suggest that systems grounded in contribution-based unemployment insurance schemes are to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011624217
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Gravity for FDI
Kleinert, Jörn (contributor); Toubal, Farid (contributor) - 2007
Gravity equations explaining foreign affiliates' sales are ad hoc and hence, estimated coeffcients are hard to interpret. We therefore provide the theoretical underpinnings of the gravity equation applied to the analysis of sales of foreign affiliates of multinational firms. We argue that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003636457
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Are oligarchs productive? : Theory and evidence
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper develops a partial equilibrium model to account for stylized facts about the behavior of oligarchs, politically and economically strong conglomerates in transition and developing countries. The model predicts that oligarchs are more likely than other owners to invest in productivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003652684
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How important is selection? : Experimental vs. non-experimental measures of the income gains from migration
McKenzie, David J. (contributor);  … - 2006
Measuring the gain in income from migration is complicated by non-random selection of migrants from the general population, making it hard to obtain an appropriate comparison group of non-migrants. This paper uses a migrant lottery to overcome this problem, providing an experimental measure of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003310959