Search Results - subject:"matching estimator"

The Effects of Product Dropping on Firm's Productivity and Employment Composition

Nardis, Sergio De; Ventura, Marco - Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (ISTAT) - 2010

Italian firms during a period (2000-05) of rising competitive pressures. Adopting a propensity score matching estimator, we …

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An impact evaluation of the Safe Motherhood Program in China

Feng, Xing Lin; Shi, Guang; Wang, Yan; Xu, Ling; Luo, Hao; … - In: Health Economics 19 (2010) S1, pp. 69-94

Using 11 years of county-level panel data, fixed effect models are estimated to evaluate the impact of the Safe Motherhood (SM) Program in China. Propensity score matching is used to select comparable factual and counterfactual counties. Out of 2013 counties in China, 283 are selected for the...

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The effects of knowledge management on innovative success: an empirical analysis of German firms

Cantner, Uwe; Joel, Kristin; Schmidt, Tobias - 2009

The aim of this paper is to analyse the effects of knowledge management on the innovation success of firms in Germany. Using a matching procedure on data from the German Innovation Survey of 2003 (“Mannheim Innovation Panel”), we pair firms applying knowledge management with twin firms with...

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Non-parametric inference for the effect of a treatment on survival times with application in the health and social sciences

Luna, Xavier de; Johansson, Per - 2009

In this paper we perform inference on the effect of a treatment on survival times in studies where the treatment assignment is not randomized and the assignment time is not known in advance. Two such studies are discussed: a heart transplant program and a study of Swedish unemployed eligible for...

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The effects of knowledge management on innovative success: an empirical analysis of German firms

Cantner, Uwe; Joel, Kristin; Schmidt, Tobias - 2009

The aim of this paper is to analyse the effects of knowledge management on the innovation success of firms in Germany. Using a matching procedure on data from the German Innovation Survey of 2003 (Mannheim Innovation Panel), we pair firms applying knowledge management with twin firms with...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298832

Essays on Firm Ownership, Performance and Value.

Petkova, Neviana I. - 2009

examining the implications of full versuspartial foreign ownership. Using a difference-in-differences matching estimator and …

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The effects of knowledge management on innovative success - an empirical analysis of German firms

Cantner, Uwe; Joel, Kristin; Schmidt, Tobias - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The aim of this paper is to analyse the effects of knowledge management on the innovation success of firms in Germany. Using a matching procedure on data from the German Innovation Survey of 2003 ("Mannheim Innovation Panel"), we pair firms applying knowledge management with twin firms with...

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A Methodology to Compute Regional Housing Index Price using Matching Estimator Methods

Paredes - Araya, Dusan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper proposes a methodology for a spatial cost index of housing that considers spatial heterogeneity in properties across regions. The index is built by combining three different techniques to reduce the spatial heterogeneity in housing: Quasi-experimental methods, hedonic prices and...

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The effects of knowledge management on innovative success: an empirical analysis of German firms

Cantner, Uwe; Joel, Kristin; Schmidt, Tobias - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2009

The aim of this paper is to analyse the effects of knowledge management on the innovation success of firms in Germany. Using a matching procedure on data from the German Innovation Survey of 2003 (Mannheim Innovation Panel), we pair firms applying knowledge management with twin firms with...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005059020

Non-Parametric Inference for the Effect of a Treatment on Survival Times with Application in the Health and Social Sciences

de Luna, Xavier; Johansson, Per - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Keywords: employment subsidy, heart transplant, matching estimator, observational study, potential outcome, survival function … contribute by developing a formal framework that allows us to show the unbiasedness of the matching estimator utilized. We also … subsidy 12 0 100 200 300 -0.05 0.00 0.05 0.10 Proportional hazard Matching estimator Survival(days) Figure 2: Estimated (by …

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