den Berg, Gerard J. van; Bozio, Antoine; Costa Dias, Monica - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Causal effects of a policy change on hazard rates of a duration outcome variable are not identified from a comparison … identification of average treatment effects on hazard rates without model structure. We estimate these effects by kernel hazard … regression. In effect, we merge duration analysis and discontinuity analysis. We use the introduction of the NDYP program for …