Search Results - subject:"Regression Discontinuity design"

Returns to higher education in China : evidence from the 1999 higher education expansion using fuzzy regression discontinuity

Dai, Fengyan; Cai, Fang; Zhu, Yu - 2018

China experienced a 47% expansion in higher education enrolment between 1998 and 1999, and a six-fold expansion in the decade to 2008. In this paper, we explore a fuzzy discontinuity in the months of births induced by the expansion to study the returns to higher education in China. We find that...

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The (short-term) individual welfare consequences of an alcohol ban

Petilliot, René - 2018

subjective well-being data to proxy individual welfare, I apply a regression discontinuity design where the date of the …

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The effects of being subject to the Colombian apprenticeship contract on manufacturing firm performance

Ospino, Carlos - 2018

regression discontinuity design which compares small firms subject to the regulation to those that are not, shows positive …

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Testing continuity of a density via g-order statistics in the regression discontinuity design

Bugni, Federico A.; Canay, Ivan A. - 2018

In the regression discontinuity design (RDD), it is common practice to assess the credibility of the design by testing …

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Do paid teacher trainee programs lead to additional teachers in secondary education? : a regression discontinuity analysis

Deelen, Anja; Kuijpers, Sonny - 2018

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The impact of progressive tuition fees on dropping out of higher education : a regression discontinuity design

García Montalvo, José - 2018

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The effect of language training on immigrants' economic integration : empirical evidence from France

Lochmann, Alexa; Rapoport, Hillel; Speciale, Biagio - 2018

training, through the method of Regression Discontinuity Design. We find that the number of assigned hours of training …

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The regional effects of professional sports franchises : causal evidence from four European football leagues

Brachert, Matthias - 2018

relegation mode of the classical round-robin tournament in the European model of sport to develop a regression-discontinuity … design. The results indicate small and significant negative short-term effects on regional employment and output in the …

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Effects of government spending on employment : evidence from winners and runners-up in procurement auctions

Gugler, Klaus; Weichselbaumer, Michael; Zulehner, Christine - 2018

To estimate demand for labor, we use a combination of detailed employment data and the outcomes of procurement auctions, and compare the employment of the winner of an auction with the employment of the second ranked firm (i.e. the runner-up firm). Assuming similar ex-ante winning probabilities...

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Who benefits from the corporate QE? : a regression discontinuity design approach

Abidi, Nordine; Miquel-Flores, Ixart - 2018

strengthen the pass-through of unconventional monetary interventions. Using a regression discontinuity design framework that …

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