Search Results - subject:"regression discontinuity"

Baltrunaite, Audinga; Casarico, Alessandra; Profeta, Paola - 2016

prescribes both gender quotas on candidate lists and double preference voting conditioned on gender. Using a Regression … Discontinuity Design, we estimate that the law increases the share of elected female politicians by 22 percentage points. The result …

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Political Dynasties and the Incumbency Advantage in Party-Centered Environments

Fiva, Jon H.; Smith, Daniel M. - 2016

regression discontinuity design to evaluate both the incumbency advantage and the inherited incumbency advantage. We document …

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Power and rents - political influence on rent extraction: Quasi-experimental evidence for Bavaria

Schötz, Lukas - 2016

rent allocation in the political system. Results from this quasi-experimental regression discontinuity design (RDD …

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Nonparametric Instrumental Variable Methods for Dynamic Treatment Evaluation

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Bonev, Petyo; Mammen, Enno - 2016

We develop a nonparametric instrumental variable approach for the estimation of average treatment effects on hazard rates and conditional survival probabilities, without model structure.We derive constructive identification proofs for average treatment effects under noncompliance and dynamic...

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How does maternal pension wealth affect family old-age savings in Germany?

Thiemann, Andreas - 2016

wealth. The regression discontinuity approach exploits two expansions of the child care pension benefit, in 1992 and in 1999 …

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Mayor games in Bavaria: Self selection of local politicians is not influenced by constitutionally defined remuneration increases! Quasi-experimental evidence from Germany

Schötz, Lukas - 2016

regression discontinuity design to six different population thresholds. My analysis demonstrates that positive or negative … regression analysis is used. However, further analysis using regression discontinuity design shows that, in fact, no causal …

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Targeted Business Incentives and the Debt Behavior of Households

Di, Wenhua; Millimet, Daniel L. - 2016

achieved using a sharp regression discontinuity approach that exploits the known institutional rules of the program. …

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Rising to the occasion? Youth political knowledge and the voting age

Rosenqvist, Olof - 2016

Swedish laws. I employ a regression discontinuity strategy on Swedish register data to estimate the causal effect of early age …

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Is there a gender difference in the ability to deal with failures? Evidence from professional golf tournaments

Rosenqvist, Olof - 2016

Recent experimental evidence suggests that women in general are more discouraged than men by failures which potentially can explain why women, on average, are less likely than men to reach top positions in firms. This paper provides the first quasi-experimental evidence from the field on this...

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Modern family? Paternity leave and marital stability

Avdic, Daniel; Karimi, Arizo - 2016

exploiting two parental leave reforms in Sweden. Using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design, we find that a decrease in the …

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