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Working Time Reductions at the End of the Career: Do They Prolong the Time Spent in Employment?

Albanese, Andrea; Cockx, Bart; Thuy, Yannick - 2015

In this paper we study the effects on the survival rate in employment of a scheme that facilitates gradual retirement through working time reductions. We use information on the entire labour market career and other observables to control for selection and take dynamic treatment assignment into...

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The Finite Sample Performance of Inference Methods for Propensity Score Matching and Weighting Estimators

Bodory, Hugo; Camponovo, Lorenzo; Huber, Martin; … - 2016

This paper investigates the finite sample properties of a range of inference methods for propensity score-based matching and weighting estimators frequently applied to evaluate the average treatment effect on the treated. We analyse both asymptotic approximations and bootstrap methods for...

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Cognitive Ability and the Mortality Gradient by Education: Selection or Mediation?

Bijwaard, Govert; Jones, Andrew M. - 2016

Large differences in mortality rates across those with different levels of education are a well- established fact. This association between mortality and education may partly be explained by confounding factors, including cognitive ability. Cognitive ability may also be affected by education so...

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Buy Flexible, Pay More: The Role of Temporary Contracts on Wage Inequality

Albanese, Andrea; Gallo, Giovanni - 2020

We investigate the role of temporary contracts in shaping wage inequality in a dual labour market. Based on Italian individual-level administrative data, our analysis focuses on new hires in temporary and open-ended contracts for the period of 2005–2015. To estimate the presence of...

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Semi-parametric estimation of multi-valued treatment effects for the treated: Estimating equations and sandwich estimators

Zetterqvist, Johan; Waernbaum, Ingeborg - 2020

An estimand of interest in empirical studies with observational data is the average treatment effect of a multi-valued treatment in the treated subpopulation. We demonstrate three estimation approaches: outcome regression, inverse probability weighting and inverse probability weighted...

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The fade away effect of initial nonresponse bias in regression analysis

Alho, Juha M.; Rendtel, Ulrich; Khan, Mursala - 2023

to panel attrition, which are thought to worsen the bias resulting from initial nonresponse. However, under certain … derive the bias of cross-sectional OLS-estimates of the slope coefficient. In the case of no subsequent attrition and only … decrease to a limit which is determined by the size of the permanent components. Attrition is discussed here in a worst case …

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Assessing the impact of a minimum income scheme: The Basque Country case

de la Rica, Sara; Gorjón, Lucía - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 10 (2019) 3/4, pp. 251-280

In this paper, we evaluate the impact of a minimum income scheme (MIS) in the Basque Country, one of Spain's 17 autonomous regions. In particular, we assess whether the policy delays entry into employment for recipients, as well as the extent to which activating policies aimed at enabling...

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Impact of community-based health insurance on utilisation of preventive health services in rural Uganda: a propensity score matching approach

Nshakira-Rukundo, Emmanuel; Mussa, Essa Chanie; … - In: International Journal of Health Economics and Management 21 (2021) 2, pp. 203-227

The effect of voluntary health insurance on preventive health has received limited research attention in developing countries, even when they suffer immensely from easily preventable illnesses. This paper surveys households in rural south-western Uganda, which are geographically serviced by a...

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Decomposing differences in arithmetic means: A doubly-robust estimation approach

Kaiser, Boris - 2013

When decomposing differences in average economic outcome between two groups of individuals, it is common practice to base the analysis on logarithms if the dependent variable is nonnegative. This paper argues that this approach raises a number of undesired statistical and conceptual issues...

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The time for austerity: Estimating the average treatment effect of fiscal policy

Jordà, Òscar; Taylor, Alan M. - 2014

After the Global Financial Crisis a controversial rush to fiscal austerity followed in many countries. Yet research on the effects of austerity on macroeconomic aggregates was and still is unsettled, mired by the difficulty of identifying multipliers from observational data. This paper...

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