Search Results - subject:"Regression Discontinuity design"

Class size, teacher hours and educational attainment

Browning, Martin; Heinesen, Eskil - Centre for Applied Microeconometrics (CAM), Økonomisk … - 2003

We employ a regression-discontinuity design to identify effects on educational attainment (years of education) of class …

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Can Social Programs be Reliably Evaluated with NonExperimental Methods? Evidence on the Performance of Regression Discontinuity Design using PROGRESA data

Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Skoufias, Emmanuel - Royal Economic Society - RES - 2003

exploit a build in, but neglected, discontinuity in the eligibility rule and use the quasi-experimental Regression-Discontinuity … design in order to estimate marginal average treatment effects. Our findings show substantial regional variation. Moreover …

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Do Parties Matter for Fiscal Policy Choices? A Regression-Discontinuity Approach

Pettersson-Lidbom, Per - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2003

This paper presents a method for measuring the causal effect of party control on fiscal policy outcomes. The source of identifying information comes from an institutional feature of the election system, namely that party control changes discontinuously at 50 percent of the vote share, i.e., a...

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Does the Size of the Legislature Affect the Size of Government? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Pettersson Lidbom, Per - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2003

Previous empirical studies have found a positive relationship between the size of the legislature and the size of government. Those studies, however, do not adequately address the concerns of endogeneity. In contrast, this paper exploits an exogenous variation in the size of the legislature...

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Regolazione del mercato del lavoro e crescita dimensionale delle imprese: Una verifica sull'effetto soglia dei 15 dipendenti.

Nardis, Sergio de; Mancini, Massimo; Pappalardo, Carmine - Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (ISTAT) - 2003

deterministic selection process (sharp Regression Discontinuity Design). In both empirical exercises we found significant but …

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Absorptive Capacity and the Growth Effects of Regional Transfers: A Regression Discontinuity Design with Heterogeneous Treatment Effects

Becker, Sascha O.; Egger, Peter; von Ehrlich, Maximilian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

not vary in a systematic way across units. We suggest a regression discontinuity design which allows for parametric or … discontinuity design. An example are transfers provided by the European Commission to regions of EU member states below a certain …Transfers to individuals, firms, and regions are often regulated by threshold rules, giving rise to a regression …

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Are the subsidies to private capital useful? A Multiple Regression Discontinuity Design Approach

Cerqua, Augusto; Pellegrini, Guido - Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma … - 2011

policy. We propose a new approach, named multiple regression discontinuity design that exploits the sharp discontinuities in …

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The Impact of Controlled Foreign Company Legislation on Real Investments Abroad: A Two-dimensional Regression Discontinuity Design

Egger, Peter; Wamser, Georg - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

-tax-avoidance legislation. This paper aims at quantifying their impact on foreign investments by utilizing a regression discontinuity design and …

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Does early intervention help the unemployed youth?

Carling, Kenneth; Larsson, Laura - 2002

This paper evaluates a measure targeted at unemployed individuals aged 20-24. The main purpose of the measure is to prevent long-term unemployment by guaranteeing an assignment to some labor market program within 100 days of unemployment. Municipalities voluntarily agree to offer the guarantee....

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Do university enrollment constraints affect education and earnings?

Öckert, Björn - 2002

In most countries the number of places at the universities is restricted. This paper estimates the effect of university enrollment constraints in 1982 on years of education and earnings in Sweden 1981-96. The effect on educational attainment is related to labor market performance, to estimate...

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