Search Results - subject:"Regression Discontinuity design"

Is It Worth It? On the Returns to Holding Political Office

Berg, Heléne - 2018

This paper estimate causal effects of being elected in a local election on monetary returns. The claim for causality can be made thanks to a research design where the income of some candidate who just barely won a seat is compared to that of some other candidate who was close to winning a seat...

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Simultaneous selection of optimal bandwidths for the sharp regression discontinuity estimator

Arai, Yoichi; Ichimura, Hidehiko - In: Quantitative Economics 9 (2018) 1, pp. 441-482

and the right of the cut-off point is proposed for the sharp regression discontinuity design estimator of the average …

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Runoff vs. plurality: Does it matter for expenditures? : Evidence from Italy

Cipullo, Davide - 2018

discontinuity design. The results show that municipalities under the runoff system spend at least 20 percent more than those under … expenditures. I use the change in the voting rule in Italian municipalities at 15,000 residents to implement a regression …

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Increased compulsory school leaving age affects secondary school track choice and increases dropout rates in vocational training schools

Adamecz-Völgyi, Anna - 2018

regression discontinuity design (RDD) identification strategy. The new CSL age was introduced for those entering their first year …

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The effects of increased compulsory school leaving age on the teenage fertility of Roma women, a disadvantaged ethnic minority

Adamecz-Völgyi, Anna; Scharle, Ágota - 2018

(both motherhood and pregnancy) of Roma women, a disadvantaged ethnic minority in Hungary. We use a regression discontinuity … design identification strategy based on exact date of birth. Increasing the CSL age from age 16 to 18 decreased the …

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Financial incentives to work for disability insurance recipients: Sweden's special rules for continuous deduction

Andersson, Josefine - 2018

using a regression discontinuity design. However, a simultaneous regime change of disability insurance eligibility causes …

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Early counselling of displaced workers: Effects of collectively funded job search assistance

Andersson, Josefine - 2018

Employment Security Agreements, which are elements of Swedish collective agreements, offer a unique opportunity to study very early job search counselling of displaced workers. These agreements provide individual job search assistance to workers who are dismissed due to redundancy, often as...

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Lump-sum severance grants and the duration of unemployment

Andersson, Josefine - 2018

means of a Swedish collective agreement. I use a regression discontinuity design, based on the strict age requirement to be …

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UK national minimum wage and labor market outcomes of young workers

Fidrmuc, Jan; Tena, J. D. - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 12 (2018) 2018-5, pp. 1-28

The UK national minimum wage (NMW) is age-specific with the most important threshold at the age of 22 (lowered to 21 from 2010 onwards) when workers become eligible for the adult rate. The authors estimate the impact of this threshold on employment by means of a regression discontinuity...

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The Impact of Compulsory Education on Employment and Earnings in a Transition Economy

Liwiński, Jacek - 2018

. Using the regression discontinuity design and data from the Polish LFS (2001-2005), we find that the reform had no impact on …

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