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Elected or Appointed? How the Nomination Scheme of the City Manager Influences the Effects of Government Fragmentation

Garmann, Sebastian - 2013

Empirical work on the causal effect of government fragmentation finds diversified results. This might be explained by the fact that studies typically are settled in different institutional environments. To assess in how far the political system might shape the effects of fragmentation, this...

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The Award of a Training Voucher and Labor Market Outcomes

Paul, Marie; Dörr, Annabelle; Fitzenberger, Bernd; … - 2013

This paper estimates the labor market effects of being awarded with a training voucher using an instrumental variable approach. In Germany all public sponsored further training programs are allocated through vouchers and the system, we study here, thus represents a major case of the use of...

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Job Losses and Criminal Gains: Analyzing the Effect of Unemployment on Criminal Activity

Sieger, Philip - 2013

effects. To circumvent the endogeneity of the unemployment rate in the structural equation of interest I interact two sources …

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Youth Employment Instability, True State Dependence and Adult Wage Inequality

Umkehrer, Matthias - 2013

This paper examines recent trends in employment patterns on the labor market for youth and changing returns to early employment stability over the past four decades. True state dependence is identified by exploiting exogenous variation in aggregate labor market conditions induced by differences...

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Child Costs and the Causal Effect of Fertility on Female Labor Supply: An investigation for Indonesia 1993-2008

Priebe, Jan - 2011

Over the last two decades Indonesia has experienced a significant decline in fertility rates and substantial increases in the level of education of women. Despite this development female labor force participation rates have remained roughly constant throughout this period. This paper explores...

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What is the Value Added by using Causal Machine Learning Methods in a Welfare Experiment Evaluation?

Strittmatter, Anthony - 2019

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 … methods that prevent them from identifying all the effect heterogeneity of Jobs First. …

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Overconfidence and Gender Differences in Wage Expectations

Satlukal, Sascha; Briel, Stephanie; Reutter, Mirjam; … - 2019

We analyze the impact of overconfidence on gender differences in wage expectations using elicited beliefs of German university applicants. Interestingly, female students have lower wage expectations and are less overconfident than their male counterparts. Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions show that...

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Satisfaction and protection of individual mobile telecommunications consumers: Need for regulation?

Gijón Tascón, Covadonga; Garín Muñoz, Teresa; … - 2012

Mobile telecommunications markets have been studied primarily from the perspectives of mobile telecom operators, market organization and regulators. However, there have been few studies from the perspective of the private consumer, which is the object of this research. This paper is part of an...

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Child Quality and Child Quantity: Evidence from Bolivian Household Surveys

Bredl, Sebastian - 2012

Models built on the classical quality-quantity trade-off predict an increase in child quality and a decrease in child quantity in poor developing countries when parental wealth and educational levels increase. This paper tests this prediction empirically in a cross-sectional framework with data...

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The effect of involuntary unemployment on the mental health of spouses

Marcus, Jan - 2012

This paper is the first to estimate the effect of one partner's entry into unemployment on the mental health of both spouses in Germany. In order to give the estimates a causal interpretation, this study focuses on an exogenous entry into unemployment (plant closure) and applies a...

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