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Generalized propensity scores for multiple continuous treatment variables

Egger, Peter; Ehrlich, Maximilian von - 2013

This paper illustrates that the generalized propensity score method can easily be applied with multiple continuous endogenous treatment variables. Consistency proofs carry over straightforwardly to this general case, and the approach is shown to work well in finite samples with various...

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Income taxes, sorting, and the costs of housing : evidence from municipal boundaries in Switzerland

Basten, Christoph; Ehrlich, Maximilian von; Lassmann, Andrea - 2014

This paper provides novel evidence on the role of income taxes for residential rents and spatial sorting. Drawing on comprehensive apartment-level data, we identify the effects of tax differentials across municipal boundaries in Switzerland. The boundary discontinuity design (BDD) corrects for...

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Global evidence on misperceptions and preferences for redistribution

Feichtmayer, Jennifer; Gründler, Klaus - 2021

Individuals often hold erroneous beliefs about their socio-economic status relative to others. We develop a new machine learning technique to measure these misperceptions and use large-scale international survey data to compute status misperception for 241,757 households from 97 countries (24...

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Structural reforms and income inequality : who benefits from market-oriented reforms?

Gründler, Klaus; Potrafke, Niklas; Wochner, Timo - 2020

We examine how structural reforms relate to income inequality. We employ many indicators of structural reforms and use … data for market and net income inequality. The dataset includes up to 135 countries since 1960. The results do not suggest … that market-oriented structural reforms were associated with rising income inequality in the full sample. Trade and …

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Culture, diversity, and the welfare state

Gründler, Klaus; Köllner, Sebastian - 2018

. Apart from their direct effects, these traits also exert indirect impact by influencing the transmission of inequality to …

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Financial development and inequality in the global economy

Ehrlich, Maximilian von; Seidel, Tobias - 2016

development for inequality in the global economy. If there are many small firms, better access to external funds reduces wage … inequality and unemployment. In contrast, if there are many highproductive firms (those that export), financial development may … have opposite effects - especially if trade costs are low. In sum, the implications of financial development for inequality …

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