Search Results - subject:"Regression Discontinuity Design"

The retirement consumption puzzle: evidence from a regression discontinuity approach

Battistin, Erich; Brugiavini, Agar; Rettore, Enrico; … - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 2008

<p>In this paper we investigate the size of the consumption drop at retirement in Italy. We use micro data on food and total non-durable household spending covering the period 1993-2004, and evaluate the change in consumption that accompanies retirement by exploiting the exogenous variability in...</p>

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Going NUTS: The Effect of EU Structural Funds on Regional Performance

Becker, Sascha O.; Egger, Peter H; Fenge, Robert; von, … - Department of Economics, University of Stirling - 2008

structural funds transfers from the central EU budget. This rule gives rise to a regression-discontinuity design that exploits …

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Going NUTS: The Effect of EU Structural Funds on Regional Performance

Becker, Sascha O.; Egger, Peter; Ehrlich, Maximilian Von; … - CESifo - 2008

structural funds transfers from the central EU budget. This rule gives rise to a regression-discontinuity design that exploits …

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The Effect of Extending the Duration of Eligibility in an Italian Labour Market Programme for Dismissed Workers

Rettore, Enrico; Paggiaro, Adriano; Trivellato, Ugo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

months subsequent to enrolment in the programme. The average treatment effect is identified via a Regression Discontinuity … Design. We validate the design by a set of overidentification tests. For most of the sub-groups we analyse, we find that a … the programme. The average treatment effect is identified via a Regression Discontinuity Design. We validate the design …

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Electoral Rules and Politicians’ Behavior: A Micro Test

Gagliarducci, Stefano; Nannicini, Tommaso; Naticchioni, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

-seeking, regression discontinuity design, treatment effect Corresponding author: Tommaso Nannicini Department of Economics … Discontinuity Design (RDD). Specifically, it had two tiers: 75% of members were elected in single-member districts, and 25% were … 2006, however, had distinctive features that can be exploited to control for endogeneity by applying a Regression …

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Forced to be Rich? Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Britain

Hart, Robert A.; Devereux, Paul J - Department of Economics, University of Stirling - 2008

Researchers using changes in compulsory schooling laws as instruments have typically estimated very high returns to additional schooling that are greater than the corresponding OLS estimates. Given that the first order source of bias in OLS is likely to be upward as more able individuals tend to...

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The Effect of Extending the Duration of Eligibility in an Italian Labour Market Programme for Dismissed Workers

Paggiaro, Adriano; Rettore, Enrico; Trivellato, Ugo - CESifo - 2008

a Regression Discontinuity Design. A major negative impact emerges for workers aged 50 or more granted the monetary …

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Enforcement of Employment Protection and the hiring behaviour of firms. Evidence from a large Italian region.

Trevisan, Elisabetta - Dipartimento di Economia, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - 2008

This paper investigates the effect of the Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) on the hiring behaviour of the firms when the level of EPL is differentiated by firms size. In this respect, Italy represents an interesting case because workers hired by bigger firms enjoy a stronger protection...

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Inference on Causal Effects in a Generalized Regression Kink Design

Card, David; Pei, Zhuan; Lee, David S.; Weber, Andrea - Department of Economics, International Business School, … - 2014

restrictions delivered by Lee (2008) for the regression discontinuity design. We then use a fuzzy RKD approach to study the effect …

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The effects of a minimum wage on employment outcomes: an application of regression discontinuity design

Canales, Kristine Laura S. - In: Philippine Review of Economics 51 (2014) 2, pp. 97-120

the probability of gaining or retaining employment. Regression discontinuity design (rdd) is employed on a household …

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