This paper investigates the household consumption behavior in Russia. The model assumes that household consumption can be described by both the Euler equation and the rule-of-thumb. Using panel data on households (Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey – Higher School of Economics [RLMS-HSE])...

Ziel dieser Dissertation ist es, die Ursachen und Konsequenzen von menschlichem Verhalten mittels empirischer Forschungsmethoden zu untersuchen. Obwohl die einzelnen Kapitel sehr unterschiedliche Themen behandeln, verbindet sie das Ziel, einen kausalen Mechanismus zu identifizieren oder...

Many conventional economic analyses assume that risk preference is taken as given and do not give much scrutiny on it. However, empirical studies show that risk preference is not random: shocks and predetermined characteristics can determine risk preference. This study tried to see if these...

In this paper we evaluate the premise from the recent literature on Monte Carlo studies that an empirically motivated simulation exercise is informative about the actual ranking of various estimators when applied to a particular problem. We consider two alternative designs and provide an...

This paper develops a specification test for the instrument validity conditions in the heterogeneous treatment effect model with a binary treatment and a discrete instrument. A necessary testable implication for the joint restriction of instrument exogeneity and instrument monotonicity is given...

In this paper some labour market consequences of transitions in the agriculture sector are examined by combining a 20-year unbalanced panel data set from Norwegian farm couples (households) and logit modeling of one-period transition probabilities. The multi-dimensionality of the problem follows...

Die vorliegende Dissertation besteht aus drei Studien, welche die Wirksamkeit verschiedener Arbeitsmarktprogramme untersuchen. Diese werden im Rahmen aktiver Arbeitsmarktpolitik mit dem Ziel eingesetzt, Arbeitslosigkeit bestimmter Zielgruppen zu verringern sowie deren Beschäftigungschancen zu...