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The effectiveness of safety education on workforce risks : evidence from South Korea

Lee, Sangwon; Lee, Sungwon - In: International journal of empirical economics 1 (2022) 3, pp. 1-29

This paper investigates how effective safety education reduces workforce risks by using an establishment-level dataset … in South Korea. We focus on identification and estimation of causal effects. Since provision of safety education depends … education may not be effective in most cases. We then discuss potential reasons that safety education would not help reduce …

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Frontiers: a simple forward difference-in-differences method

Li, Kathleen T. - In: Marketing science 43 (2024) 2, pp. 267-279

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On policy evaluation with aggregate time-series instruments

Arkhangelsky, Dmitry; Korovkin, Vasily - 2024

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Computing synthetic controls using bilevel optimization

Malo, Pekka; Eskelinen, Juha; Zhou, Xun; Kuosmanen, Timo - In: Computational economics 64 (2024) 2, pp. 1113-1136

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Distributional impact analysis : toolkit and illustrations of impacts beyond the average treatment effect

Bedoya, Guadalupe; Bittarello, Luca; Davis, Jonathan; … - 2018

Program evaluations often focus on average treatment effects. However, average treatment effects miss important aspects of policy evaluation, such as the impact on inequality and whether treatment harms some individuals. A growing literature develops methods to evaluate such issues by examining...

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The role of group-time treatment effect heterogeneity in long standing European agricultural policies : an application to the European geographical indication policy

Cei, Leonardo; Stefani, Gianluca; Defrancesco, Edi - In: Bio-based and applied economics 9 (2020) 1, pp. 85-107

In recent years, the European Union is stressing the importance of monitoring and evaluating its policies, among which the common agricultural policy plays an important role. Policy evaluation, in order to provide reliable results on which to take important legislative decisions, should rely on...

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A guide to using the synthetic control method to quantify the effects of shocks, policies, and shocking policies

Adhikari, Bibek - In: The American economist : journal of the International … 67 (2022) 1, pp. 46-63

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Impact of an educational demand-and-supply policy on girls’ education in West Africa : heterogeneity in income, school environment and ethnicity

Fatoke-Dato, Mafaïzath A. - 2015

The present paper measures the impact of an educational demand-and-supply side policy in a developing country, Benin. This West African country has introduced in 2006 a program to eliminate school fees, build schools and recruit teachers. The data used are the National Demographic and Health...

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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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Can financial incentives for regional education authorities reduce school dropout?

Elk, Roel van; Steeg, Marc van der; Webbink, Herman Dinand - In: De economist : Netherlands economic review ; quarterly … 161 (2013) 4, pp. 367-398

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