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Unobservable, but unimportant? : the influence of personality traits (and other usually unobserved variables) for the estimation of treatment effects ; conference paper
Caliendo, Marco; Mahlstedt, Robert; Mitnik, Oscar A. - 2014 - Preliminary version, this draft: February 28, 2014
unemployment in Germany, as well as several usually not observed characteristics like personality traits, attitudes, expectations …, which appear as relevant for the participation probabilities, do not matter for the estimation of effects of the programs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010487253
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The evaluation of start-up subsidies for the unemployed and the role of unobserved characteristics for matching estimators : conference paper
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Weißenberger, Martin - 2013 - Preliminary draft
neglecting personality traits in the program evaluation leads to slight over-estimation of the average treatment effects on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010344639