Search Results - subject:"Coarsened exact matching"

The effect of saving subsidies on household saving: Evidence from Germany

Corneo, Giacomo; Keese, Matthias; Schröder, Carsten - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Freie Universität … - 2010

Since 2002 the German government seeks to stimulate private retirement savings by means of special allowances and tax exemptions - the so-called Riester scheme. We apply matching and panel regression techniques to assess the impact of the Riester scheme on households' propensities to save in a...

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cem: Coarsened exact matching in Stata

Blackwell, Matthew; Iacus, Stefano; King, Gary; Porro, … - In: Stata Journal 9 (2009) 4, pp. 524-546

In this article, we introduce a Stata implementation of coarsened exact matching, a new method for improving the … estimation of causal effects by reducing imbalance in covariates between treated and control groups. Coarsened exact matching is … statistical properties for many applications than do existing matching methods. In coarsened exact matching, users temporarily …

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Evaluating Impacts of Watershed Development Program on Agricultural Productivity, Income, and Livelihood in Bhalki Watershed of Bardhaman District, West Bengal

Datta, Nirupam - In: World Development 66 (2015) C, pp. 443-456

Watershed development facilitates in reducing the vulnerability of farm income to weather-induced shocks in rain-fed lands in India. The present paper estimates homogeneous as well as non-homogeneous effects of watershed development on farmers demonstrating a huge discrepancy in estimated values...

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R&D status and the performance of domestic firms in China's coal mining industry

Sun, Sizhong; Anwar, Sajid - In: Energy Policy 79 (2015) C, pp. 99-103

exact matching (CEM) technique, this paper examines the impact of research and development (R&D) activities on the …Coal use accounts for a very large proportion of electricity production in China. Using a recently developed coarsened …

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Unionisation and Firm Performance in China’s Manufacturing Industries

Anwar, Sajid; Sun, Sizhong - In: Journal of Labor Research 36 (2015) 1, pp. 78-102

<Para ID="Par1">Using firm level data, this paper examines the link between unionisation and firm performance in China’s manufacturing industries. The empirical results suggest that unionisation has not greatly benefitted workers in China’s textile industry but it has contributed to much larger increase in...</para>

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The effect of electronic commerce on geographic purchasing patterns and price dispersion

Overby, Eric; Forman, Christopher - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 61 (2015) 2, pp. 431-453

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Evaluating impacts of watershed development program on agricultural productivity, income, and livelihood in Bhalki watershed of Bardhaman district, West Bengal

Datta, Nirupam - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 66 (2015), pp. 443-456

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The effect of patent grant on the geographic reach of patent trade

Drivas, Kyriakos; Fafaliou, Irene; Fampiou, Elpiniki; … - In: The journal of high technology management research 26 (2015) 1, pp. 58-65

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Unionisation and firm performance in China's manufacturing industries

Anwar, Sajid; Sun, Sizhong - In: Journal of labor research 36 (2015) 1, pp. 78-102

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The moderating role of firm age in the relationship between R&D expenditure and financial performance : evidence from Chinese and US mining firms

Rafiq, Shuddhasattwa; Salim, Ruhul A.; Smyth, Russell - 2015

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