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Estimating unbiased economies of scale of HIV prevention projects: A case study of Avahan

Lépine, Aurélia; Vassall, Anna; Chandrashekar, Sudha; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 131 (2015) C, pp. 164-172

causal inference and thus making the estimation of economies of scale complex. In order to estimate unbiased economies of …

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Is temporary employment damaging to health? A longitudinal study on Italian workers

Pirani, Elena; Salvini, Silvana - In: Social Science & Medicine 124 (2015) C, pp. 121-131

Working conditions have changed dramatically over recent decades in all the countries of European Union: permanent full-time employment characterized by job security and a stable salary is replaced more and more by temporary work, apprenticeship contracts, casual jobs and part-time work. The...

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Multiple comparisons for survival data with propensity score adjustment

Zhu, Hong; Lu, Bo - In: Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 86 (2015) C, pp. 42-51

adjusted in the comparisons. Propensity score based adjustment is popular in causal inference and can effectively reduce the … specifies the assumptions for causal inference on survival outcomes within a potential outcome framework, develops testing …

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Is temporary trading halt mechanism for new shares on the first day of trading conducive to curbing speculations?

Shi, Kai; Nie, Li - In: Inventi impact: international trade (2015) 1, pp. 1-11

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The 9/11 conservative shift

Schüller, Simone - In: Economics letters 135 (2015), pp. 80-84

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Consumer heterogeneity and paid search effectiveness : a large-scale field experiment

Blake, Thomas; Nosko, Chris; Tadelis, Steve - In: Econometrica : journal of the Econometric Society, an … 83 (2015) 1, pp. 155-174

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Difference-in-differences methods in public finance

St. Clair, Travis; Cook, Thomas D. - In: National tax journal 68 (2015) 2, pp. 319-338

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A graphical approximation to generalization : definitions and diagrams

Martel García, Fernando; Wantchekon, Leonard - In: Journal of globalization and development 6 (2015) 1, pp. 71-86

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Ancillary studies of experiments : opportunities and challenges

Baldwin, Kate; Bhavnani, Rikhil R. - In: Journal of globalization and development 6 (2015) 1, pp. 113-146

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The specification of the propensity score in multilevel observational studies

Arpino, Bruno; Mealli, Fabrizia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Propensity Score Matching (PSM) has become a popular approach to estimation of causal effects. It relies on the assumption that selection into a treatment can be explained purely in terms of observable characteristics (the “unconfoundedness assumption”) and on the property that balancing on...

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