Search Results - subject:"Instrumental Variables."

Estimating the Persistence and the Autocorrelation Function of a Time Series that is Measured with Error

Hansen, Peter Reinhard; Lunde, Asger - 2010

An economic time series can often be viewed as a noisy proxy for an underlying economic variable. Measurement errors will influence the dynamic properties of the observed process and may conceal the persistence of the underlying time series. In this paper we develop instrumental variable (IV)...

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Quasi-experimental evidence on the effectiveness of heart attack treatment in Germany

Hentschker, Corinna; Wuebker, Ansgar - 2018

Objective. To examine the causal effect of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) in comparison to conservative treatment methods on mortality. Data Sources. We use a full sample of administrative hospital data from Germany for the years 2005 to 2007. Study Design. To account for...

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Incentives to labour migration and agricultural productivity: The Bayesian perspective

Djuikom, Marie Albertine - 2018

Understanding how internal labour migration affects the agricultural sector is important for all developing countries whose markets do not work well or are non-existent. In fact, even if the movement out of the agricultural sector can be viewed as a process to reach development for many African...

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Does education affect attitudes towards immigration? Evidence from Germany

Margaryan, Shushanik; Paul, Annemarie; Siedler, Thomas - 2018

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and exploiting the staggered implementation of a compulsory schooling reform in West Germany, this article finds that an additional year of schooling lowers the probability of being very concerned about immigration to Germany by around six...

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Child care, parental labor supply and tax revenue

Andresen, Martin Eckhoff; Havnes, Tarjei - 2018

We study the impact of child care for toddlers on the labor supply of mothers and fathers in Norway. For identification, we exploit the staggered expansion across municipalities following a large reform from 2002. Our IV-estimates indicate that child care use causes an increase in the labor...

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Does Education Affect Attitudes Towards Immigration? Evidence from Germany

Margaryan, Shushanik; Paul, Annemarie; Siedler, Thomas - 2018

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The Impact of Mass Migration of Syrians on the Turkish Labor Market

Aksu, Ege; Erzan, Refik; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2018

We estimate the effects of the arrival of 2.5 million Syrian migrants in Turkey by the end of 2015 on the labor market outcomes of natives, using a difference-in-differences IV methodology. We show that relaxing the common-trend assumption of this methodology - unlike recent papers in the same...

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Risk Aversion and Entrepreneurship: New Evidence Exploiting Exposure to Massive Earthquakes in Italy

De Blasio, Guido; De Paola, Maria; Poy, Samuele; … - 2018

research, we handle endogeneity issues relying on an instrumental variables strategy considering as a source of exogenous …

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A comparison of robust methods for Mendelian randomization using multiple genetic variants

Bao, Yanchun; Clarke, Paul; Smart, Melissa C; Kumari, Meena - 2018

using multiple genetic variants as instrumental variables. Our principal focus, however, is to assess the "some invalid some …We report the results of a Mendelian randomization study in which multiple genetic variants are used as instrumental … variables to estimate the causal effect of body mass index on personal income in the presence of unobserved confounding. The …

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Do remittance flows promote financial inclusion?

Machasio, Immaculate - 2018

In this paper, we evaluate whether remittances promote financial inclusion in developing countries. We construct an index of financial inclusion and present single equation estimates of the effects of remittances on financial inclusion. The paper uses data on remittance flows to 61 developing...

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