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Alternative Approaches to Evaluation in Empirical Microeconomics

Blundell, Richard; Dias, Mónica Costa - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2008

This paper reviews a range of the most popular policy evaluation methods in empirical microeconomics: social experiments, natural experiments, matching methods, instrumental variables, discontinuity design and control functions. It discusses the identification of both the traditionally used...

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The production of child health in Kenya: a structural model of birth weight

Mwabu, Germano - 2008

The paper investigates birth weight and its correlates in Kenya using nationally representative data collected by the government in the early 1990s. I find that immunization of the mother against tetanus during pregnancy is strongly associated with improvements in birth weight. Other factors...

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Does Doing an Apprenticeship Pay Off?Â Evidence from Ghana

Teal, Francis; Monk, Courtney; Sandefur, Justin - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008

than those who enter with more education. Keywords: Apprenticeship; Africa; Training; Treatment; Control function JEL … control function approach (in the first stage) in order to have a flexible functional form in the earnings equation. In … instrumenting strategy, using a treatment eﬀects (IV) approach as well as a control function in the first stage. The control …

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The Production of Child Health in Kenya: A Structural Model of Birth Weight

Mwabu, Germano - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2008

the control function approach, can be used to consistently estimate structural models of birth weight production when …-randomness of a selected sample, while the control function approach (Garen, 1984; Wooldridge, 1997; Card 2001) is used to deal … control function variables because they control for the effects of unobservable factors that would otherwise contaminate the …

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Does Doing an Apprenticeship Pay Off? Evidence from Ghana

Monk, Courtney; Sandefur, Justin; Teal, Francis - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2008

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Learning-by-Exporting? Firm-Level Evidence for UK Manufacturing and Services Sectors

Harris, Richard; Li, Qian Cher - Department of Economics, Adam Smith Business School - 2007

and sample selection, viz. instrumental variables, control function and matching, and find that this effect is present in … sample selection, viz. instrumental variables, control function and matching, and find that this effect is present in many …25; R38 Keywords: exports; control function; GMM; matching; TFP; sample selection 2 I. Introduction The micro …

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Long-run Negotiations withDynamic Accumulation

Flamini, Francesca - Department of Economics, Adam Smith Business School - 2007

TMany negotiations are characterised by dynamic accumulation: current agreements affect future bargaining possibilities. We study such situations by using repeated bargaining games in which two parties can decide how much to invest and how to share the residual surplus for their own consumption....

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Quasi-maximum likelihood estimation and testing for nonlinear models with endogenous explanatory variables

Wooldridge, Jeffrey M. - In: Journal of econometrics 182 (2014) 1, pp. 226-234

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On the endogeneity of retail markups in an equilibrium analysis : a control-function approach

Hovhannisyan, Vardges; Stiegert, Kyle W.; Bozic, Marin - In: Journal of agricultural and resource economics : JARE ; … 39 (2014) 2, pp. 188-200

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A global optimality result using nonself mappings

Choudhury, Binayak S.; Maity, Pranati; Konar, P. - In: Opsearch : journal of the Operational Research Society … 51 (2014) 2, pp. 312-320

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