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Estimating Mis-reporting in Dyadic Data: Are Transfers Mutually Beneficial?

Comola, Margherita; Fafchamps, Marcel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Many studies have used self-reported dyadic data without exploiting the pattern of discordant answers. In this paper we propose a maximum likelihood estimator that deals with mis-reporting in a systematic way. We illustrate the methodology using dyadic data on inter-household transfers (gifts...

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Programme Evaluation with Multiple Treatments

Frölich, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

nonparametric matching and weighting estimators of the average treatment effects and their properties are examined. …

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Nonparametric IV Estimation of Local Average Treatment Effects with Covariates

Frölich, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

In this paper nonparametric instrumental variable estimation of local average treatment effects (LATE) is extended to incorporate confounding covariates. Estimation of local average treatment effects is appealing since their identification relies on much weaker assumptions than the...

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A Martingale Representation for Matching Estimators

Abadie, Alberto; Imbens, Guido W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Matching estimators are widely used in statistical data analysis. However, the distribution of matching estimators has … matching estimators. This representation allows the use of martingale limit theorems to derive the asymptotic distribution of … matching estimators. As an illustration of the applicability of the theory, we derive the asymptotic distribution of a matching …

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New Evidence on the Effects of Job Creation Schemes in Germany – A Matching Approach with Threefold Heterogeneity

Hujer, Reinhard; Caliendo, Marco; Thomsen, Stephan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

justifies the application of a matching estimator but also allows to take account of threefold heterogeneity. The recently …

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The Employment Effects of Job Creation Schemes in Germany: A Microeconometric Evaluation

Caliendo, Marco; Hujer, Reinhard; Thomsen, Stephan L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

justifies the application of a matching estimator and allows to account for individual (group-specific) and regional effect … decisions which have to be made during implementation of the matching estimator, e.g. choosing the matching algorithm or …

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Bandwidth Selection and the Estimation of Treatment Effects with Unbalanced Data

Galdo, Jose; Smith, Jeffrey Andrew; Black, Dan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

using matching methods. Because precise estimation of the expected counterfactual is particularly important in regions …

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What is the Value of Knowing the Propensity Score for Estimating Average Treatment Effects?

Frölich, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

Propensity score matching is widely used in treatment evaluation to estimate average treatment effects. Nevertheless …

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Canonical Correlation and Assortative Matching: A Remark

Dupuy, Arnaud; Galichon, Alfred - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

In the context of the Beckerian theory of marriage, when men and women match on a single-dimensional index that is the weighted sum of their respective multivariate attributes, many papers in the literature have used linear canonical correlation, and related techniques, in order to estimate...

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Social Interactions and Labor Market Outcomes in Cities

Zenou, Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We develop a model where information about jobs is essentially obtained through friends and relatives, i.e. strong and weak ties. Workers commute to a business center to work and to interact with other people. We find that housing prices increase with the level of social interactions in the city...

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