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Replication in Labor Economics: Evidence from Data, and What It Suggests

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2016

Examining the most heavily-cited publications in labor economics from the early 1990s, I show that few of over 3000 articles citing them directly replicates them. They are replicated more frequently using data from other time periods and economies, so that the validity of their central ideas has...

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Discretionary Measures of Active Labor Market Policy: The German Employment Promotion Reform in Perspective

Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2000

This paper provides a preliminary assessment of recent reforms of German employment promotion policy. While several recent studies analyze the impact of measures of employment promotion for the case of Germany, no comparable study exists on the aggregate level, thus precluding any assessment of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262390

Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policy: Methodological Concepts and Empirical Estimates

Hujer, Reinhard; Caliendo, Marco - 2000

Persistently high unemployment, tight government budgets and the growing scepticism regarding the effects of active labour market policies (ALMP) are the basis for a growing interest in evaluating these measures. This paper intends to explain the need for evaluation on the micro- and...

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Theoretical unification in justice and beyond

Jasso, Guillermina - 2007

The goal of scientific work is to understand more and more by less and less. In this effort, theoretical unification plays a large part. There are two main types of theoretical unification - unification of different theories of the same field of phenomena and unification of theories of different...

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The causal effect of parent's schooling on children's schooling: a comparison of estimation methods

Holmlund, Helena; Lindahl, Mikael; Plug, Erik - 2008

Recent studies that aim to estimate the causal link between the education of parents and their children provide evidence that is far from conclusive. This paper explores why. There are a number of possible explanations. One is that these studies rely on different data sources, gathered in...

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Oswald, Andrew J. - 2009

Countries often spend billions on university research. There is growing interest in how to assess whether that money is well spent. Is there an objective way to assess the quality of a nation's world-leading science? I attempt to suggest a method, and illustrate it with modern data on economics....

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Did we overestimate the role of social preferences? The case of self-selected student samples

Falk, Armin; Meier, Stephan; Zehnder, Christian - 2011

general population in a trust experiment. We find very similar behavioral patterns for the two groups. If anything, the level …

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The feasibility and importance of adding measures of actual experience to cross-sectional data collection

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2011

We use Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics data and data from a 2008 telephone survey of adults conducted by Westat for the Princeton Data Improvement Initiative (PDII) to explore the importance and feasibility of adding retrospective questions about actual work experience to cross-sectional...

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Building in an evaluation component for active labor market programs: A practitioner's guide

Card, David; Ibarrarán, Pablo; Villa, Juan Miguel - 2011

The guide outlines the main evaluation challenges associated with ALMP s, and shows how to obtain rigorous impact estimates using two leading evaluation approaches. The most credible and straightforward evaluation method is a randomized design, in which a group of potential participants is...

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An Experimental Study of the POUM Hypothesis

Checchi, Daniele; Filippin, Antonio - 2003

period and individuals are not too risk averse. This paper tests the POUM hypothesis by means of a within subjects experiment … inequality aversion are (partially) controlled for via either the experiment design or the information collected during the … experiment. We find that the POUM hypothesis holds under alternative specifications, even when we control for individual fixed …

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