Search Results - subject:"Difference in differences"

Parents' incomes and children's outcomes: a quasi-experiment

Akee, Randall K. Q.; Copeland, William; Keeler, Gordon; … - 2008

Identifying the effect of parental incomes on child outcomes is difficult due to the correlation of unobserved ability, education levels and income. Previous research has relied on the use of instrumental variables to identify the effect of a change in household income on the young adult...

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Job protection legislation and productivity growth in OECD countries

Bassanini, Andrea; Nunziata, Luca; Venn, Danielle - 2008

-country aggregate data on the degree of regulations and industry-level data on productivity from 1982 to 2003. We adopt a difference-in-differences …

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The treatment effect, the cross difference, and the interaction term in nonlinear difference-in-differences models

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2008

treatment effect in nonlinear difference-in-differences models such as probit, logit or tobit, because the cross difference is … not equal to the treatment effect, which is the parameter of interest. In a nonlinear difference-in-differences model, the … difference is not zero in the nonlinear model. It follows that the sign of the treatment effect in a nonlinear difference-in-differences …

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Effects of dismissal protection legislation on individual employment stability in Germany

Boockmann, Bernhard; Gutknecht, Daniel; Steffes, Susanne - 2008

Changes in Dismissal Protection Legislation in Germany have been a subject to ongoing research in the past decade. The majority of these studies, however, has not been able to determine significant effects on job and worker flows in firms affected by the reforms. We estimate the impact of...

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Cheaper children, more children

Mörk, Eva; Sjögren, Anna; Svaleryd, Helena - 2008

We study the effect of child care costs on the fertility behavior of Swedish women and find that reductions in child care charges influence fertility decisions, even when costs are initially highly subsidized. Exploiting the exogenous variation in child care costs caused by a Swedish child care...

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On mandatory activation of welfare receivers

Dahlberg, Matz; Johansson, Kajsa; Mörk, Eva - 2008

This paper investigates whether mandatory activation programs for welfare receivers have effects on welfare participation, employment and disposable income. In contrast to earlier studies we are able to capture both entry and exit effects. The empirical analysis makes use of a Swedish welfare...

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Do regional payroll tax reductions boost employment?

Bennmarker, Helge; Mellander, Erik; Öckert, Björn - 2008

Using a Difference-in-Differences approach we evaluate the effects of a 10 percentage points reduction in the payroll …

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From giving birth to paid labor: the effects of adult education for prime-aged mothers

Bergemann, Annette; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2008

conditional difference-in-differences approaches. We use Swedish matched longitudinal register data sets covering the full …

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The Extension of Clusters: Difference-in-Differences Evidence from the Bavarian State-Wide Cluster Policy

Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Kipar, Stefan - CESifo - 2008

-wide knowledge flows. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we find that introducing the Bavarian-wide cluster policy increased …

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Marginal effects in the probit model with a triple dummy variable interaction term

Cornelissen, Thomas; Sonderhof, Katja - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Leibniz … - 2008

model is the regression-based difference-in-difference-in-differences estimator with a binary outcome variable. The formulae …

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