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Estimating distributions of treatment effects with an application to the returns to schooling and measurement of the effects of uncertainty on college choice

Carneiro, Pedro; Hansen, Karsten T.; Heckman, James J. - 2003 - This draft, January 22, 2003

This paper uses factor models to identify and estimate distributions of counterfactuals. We extend LISREL frameworks to a dynamic treatment effect setting, extending matching to account for unobserved conditioning variables. Using these models, we can identify all pairwise and joint treatment...

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Continuing Vocational Training in Germany - a Comparative Study Using Three German Data Sets

Kuckulenz, Anja - 2008

Empirical work on continuing training in Germany provides surprisingly divergent evidence on the incidence of training. This makes comparison of econometric analyses of the impact of training on labour market outcomes difficult. Three large German data sets are used here to bring to light the...

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Should we increase instruction time in low achieving schools? : evidence from Southern Italy

Battistin, Erich; Meroni, Elena Claudia - 2013

This paper investigates the short term effects of a large scale intervention, funded by the European Social Fund, that provides additional instruction time to students in low achieving lower secondary schools of Southern Italy. We control for sorting across classes using the fact that freshman...

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The returns to the federal tax credits for higher education

Bulman, George B.; Hoxby, Caroline M. - 2015

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The returns to the federal tax credits for higher education

Bulman, George B.; Hoxby, Caroline M. - In: Tax policy and the economy 29 (2015), pp. 13-88

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The long-run effects of recessions on education and income

Stuart, Bryan A. - 2017

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Parental responses to public investments in children : evidence from a maximum class size rule

Fredriksson, Peter; Öckert, Björn; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2015

schools. In response to an increase in class size: (i) only high-income parents help their children more with homework; (ii …) all parents are more likely to move their child to another school; and (iii) only low-income children find their teachers … substitutes, and help explain why the negative effect of class size on achievement in our data is concentrated among low-income …

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Partial Identification of Wage Effects of Training Programs

Lechner, Michael - 2010

In an evaluation of a job-training program, the influence of the program on the individual wages is important, because it reflects the program effect on human capital. Estimating these effects is complicated because we observe wages only for employed individuals, and employment is itself an...

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When the Early Bird Catches the Worm : The Impact of Training in Retail

Hinerasky, Christiane - 2011

We econometrically evaluate the performance effects of a six month e-learning programme in a large retail chain with monthly data on sales revenue, for four years using panel regressions. Participants in early cohorts show positive performance effects during training periods that depreciate...

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Causal Effects of Monetary Shocks : Semiparametric Conditional Independence Tests with a Multinomial Propensity Score

Angrist, Joshua D.; Kuersteiner, Guido M. - 2021

dependent data and allowing for first-step estimation of the propensity score …

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