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Inequality and crime: Separating the effects of permanent and transitory income

Dahlberg, Matz; Gustavsson, Magnus - 2005

Earlier studies on income inequality and crime have typically used total income or total earnings. However, it is quite likely that it is changes in permanent rather than in transitory income that affects crime rates. The purpose of this paper is therefore to disentangle the two effects by,...

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Measuring conditional segregation: Methods and empirical examples

Åslund, Olof; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2005

In empirical studies of segregation it is often desirable to quantify segregation that cannot be explained by underlying characteristics. To this end, we propose a fully non-parametric method for accounting for covariates in any measure of segregation. The basic idea is that given a set of...

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Causal effects of subsidized career breaks

Nordström Skans, Oskar; Lindqvist, Linus - 2005

The paper uses a quasi-experimental situation to analyze the effects of career interruptions on future labor market outcomes. Data are generated by a Swedish program that granted career breaks to applicants until funds where exhausted. Comparing approved and declined (due to lack of funds)...

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Random and stock-flow models of labour market matching: Swedish evidence

Forslund, Anders; Johansson, Kerstin - 2007

In this paper we estimate aggregate matching functions taking advantage of a rich data base that enables us to compute observations on the variables in the matching function at (virtually) any frequency to assess the importance of the time aggregation problem. We also generate stocks, outflows...

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Competing risks models

van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2005

A competing risks model is a model for multiple durations that start at the same point of time for a given subject, where the subject is observed until the first duration is completed and one also observes which of the durations is completed first. This article gives an overview of the main...

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The relation between fluid intelligence and the general factor as a function of cultural background: A test of Cattell's investment theory

Kvist, Ann Valentin; Gustafsson, Jan-Eric - 2007

According to Cattell’s (1987) Investment theory individual differences in acquisition of knowledge and skills are … this theory holds true Gf will be a factor of General Intelligence (g) because it is involved in all domains of learning …. The purpose of the current study was to test the Investment theory, through investigating effects on the relation between …

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Matching estimators for the effect of a treatment on survival times

DeLuna, Xavier; Johansson, Per - 2007

We perform inference on the effect of a treatment on survival times in studies where the treatment assignment is not randomized and the assignment time is not known in advance. We estimate survival functions on a treated and a control group which are made comparable through matching on observed...

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Social experiments and instrumental variables with duration outcomes

Abbring, Jaap H.; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2005

This paper examines the empirical analysis of treatment effects on duration outcomes from data that contain instrumental variation. We focus on social experiments in which an intention to treat is randomized and compliance may be imperfect. We distinguish between cases where the treatment starts...

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A DSGE model for a SOE with systematic interest and foreign exchange policies in which policymakers exploit the risk premium for stabilization purposes

Escudé, Guillermo J. - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 7 (2013) 2013-30, pp. 1-110

This paper builds a DSGE model for a small open economy (SOE) in which the central bank intervenes the domestic currency bond and FX markets using two policy rules: a Taylor-type rule and a rule that determines the rate of nominal depreciation. The 2 'corner' regimes, in which only one policy...

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Money creation and financial instability: An agent-based credit network approach

Lengnick, Matthias; Krug, Sebastian; Wohltmann, Hans-Werner - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 7 (2013) 2013-32, pp. 1-44

suited to explain money creation along the lines of mainstream theory. Additionally it uncovers a potential instability that …

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