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Child penalty estimation and mothers' age at first birth

Melentyeva, Valentina; Riedel, Lukas - 2023

Motherhood continues to pose significant challenges to women's careers, and a correct assessment of its effects is crucial for understanding the persistent gender inequality in the labor market. We show that the prevalent approach to estimate post-birth earnings losses - so called "child...

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Forecasted treatment effects

Botosaru, Irene; Giacomini, Raffaella; Weidner, Martin - 2023

We consider estimation and inference about the effects of a policy in the absence of a control group. We obtain unbiased estimators of individual (heterogeneous) treatment effects and a consistent and asymptotically normal estimator of the average treatment effects, based on forecasting...

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Powering up cleaner choices: A study on the heterogenous effects of social norm-based electricity pricing on dirty fuel purchases

Turdaliev, Salim - 2023

This paper examines the heterogeneous effects of the experimental introduction of increasing-block-tariffs (IBT) for residential electricity on the propensity to purchase dirty fuels using panel household data (RLMS-HSE) in a number of regions of Russia. The study demonstrates that despite the...

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The heterogeneous effects of social cues on day time and night time electricity usage, and appliance purchase: Evidence from a field experiment in Armenia

Sargsyan, Yermone; Turdaliev, Salim; Van Koten, Silvester - 2023

This study investigates the effectiveness of "nudges" through monthly peer comparison reports on household energy consumption in Yerevan, Armenia. We collected data from 300 households for a total of 8 months. While monthly peer comparison reports show no significant effect on energy...

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Social norms and individual climate protection activities: A framed field experiment for Germany

Engler, Daniel; Gutsche, Gunnar; Simixhiu, Amantia; … - 2022

the causal effect of related information interventions on revealed climate protection activities, measured through … information about individual climate protection activities in Germany, injunctive social norms by provid-ing information about …-dence that information about both descriptive and injunctive social norms increases donations for climate protection. The …

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A Complete Framework for Model-Free Difference-in-Differences Estimation

Henderson, Daniel J.; Sperlich, Stefan - 2022

We propose a complete framework for model-free difference-in-differences analysis with covariates, where model-free means data-driven, in particular nonparametric estimation and testing, variable and scale choice. We start with searching for the preferred data setup by simultaneously choosing...

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The cost of influence: How gifts to physicians shape prescriptions and drug costs

Newham, Melissa; Valente, Marica - 2023

This paper studies how gifts - monetary or in-kind payments - from drug firms to physicians in the US affect prescriptions and drug costs. We estimate heterogeneous treatment effects by combining physician-level data on antidiabetic prescriptions and payments with causal inference and machine...

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Modeling event studies with heterogeneous treatment effects

Argys, Laura M.; Mroz, Thomas A.; Pitts, M. Melinda - 2023

, without additional information, of limited use for assessing posttreatment variations in the treatment effects. The simple …

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How local are local governments? Heterogeneous effects of intergovernmental grants

Nilsson, Heléne L. - 2009

While the literature on how intergovernmental grants affect the budget of receiving jurisdictions is numerous, the very few studies that explicitly deal with likely endogeneity problems focus on grants targeted towards specific sectors or to specific type of recipients. The results from these...

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Pooling Multiple Case Studies Using Synthetic Controls: An Application to Minimum Wage Policies

Dube, Arindrajit; Zipperer, Ben - 2015

We propose a simple, distribution-free method for pooling synthetic control case studies using the mean percentile rank. We also test for heterogeneous treatment effects using the distribution of estimated ranks, which has a known form. We propose a cross-validation based procedure for model...

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