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Estimating the Effects of Length of Exposure to a Training Program: The Case of Job Corps

Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso; Gonzalez, Arturo; Neumann, Todd C. - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 2007

Most of the literature on the evaluation of training programs focuses on the effect of participation on a particular outcome (e.g. earnings). The “treatment” is generally represented by a binary variable equal to one if participation in the program occurs, and equal to zero if no...

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Reducing Crop Nutrient Applications: The Yield Reserve Program

Metcalfe, Todd; Bosch, Darrell J.; Pease, James W. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2007

A proposed Yield Reserve Program designed to compensate farmers for any reduced yields resulting from reduced nitrogen (N) application rates below recommended rates is evaluated. Assuming that farmers currently follow extension recommendations for applying N, Yield Reserve Program participation...

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Yield Reserve Program Costs in the Virginia Coastal Plain

Metcalfe, Todd; Bosch, Darrell J.; Pease, James W.; … - In: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 36 (2007) 2

A proposed Yield Reserve Program designed to compensate farmers for any reduced yields resulting from nitrogen (N) application rates reduced to below recommended rates is evaluated. Assuming that farmers currently follow Extension recommendations for applying N, Yield Reserve Program...

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Exports and Productivity Growth - First Evidence from a Continuous Treatment Approach

Fryges, Helmut; Wagner, Joachim - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

productivity, continuous treatment, dose- response function Contact: LEUPHANA University of Lüneburg, Institute of Economics …-treated (non-exporting) firms. Based on the GPS, Hirano and Imbens (2004) further estimated a dose- response function that depicts … binary propensity score. Based on the GPS method, it is possible to estimated a dose-response function that depicts the …

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Exports and Productivity Growth: First Evidence from a Continuous Treatment Approach

Fryges, Helmut; Wagner, Joachim - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007

A recent survey of 54 micro-econometric studies reveals that exporting firms are more productive than non-exporters. On the other hand, previous empirical studies show that exporting does not necessarily improve productivity. One possible reason for this result is that most previous studies are...

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Evaluation on HYV of Pulse crops in Myanmar

Thaung, Nyein Nyein; Choi, Kyu Seob - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2007

decomposition model. The result of the area response function showed that the price of pulses was significant factor affecting …

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Comparison of Water Allocation Strategies for Wheat Production in the Texas Panhandle

Colette, W. Arden; Almas, Lal K. - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2007

The declining availability of irrigation water from the Ogallala aquifer combined with increasing energy costs make irrigation strategies much more critical. Irrigation strategies that maximize returns to irrigation require less water and achieve higher returns than strategies aimed at...

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Opium for the Masses: How Foreign Free Media Can Stabilize Authoritarian Regimes

Kern, Holger; Hainmueller, Jens - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

A common claim in the democratization literature is that foreign free media undermine authoritarian rule. No reliable micro-level evidence on this topic exists, however, since independent survey research is rarely possible in authoritarian regimes and self-selection into media consumption...

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An Empirical Study of the Fisher Effect and the Dynamic Relation Between Nominal Interest Rate and Inflation in Singapore

Lee, King Fuei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

The Fisher effect postulated that real interest rate is constant, and that nominal interest rate and expected inflation move one-for-one together. This paper employs Johansen’s method to investigate for the existence of a long-run Fisher effect in the Singapore economy over the period 1976 to...

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Empirische Befunde der experimentellen Preisforschung : Wirkung der Transaktionskonsequenz und materieller Anreize auf das Entscheidungsverhalten in Kaufsimulationen

Müller, Holger - 2007

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