unemployment duration is positive and significant. Neglecting selectivity leads to an underestimation of the effects in absolute …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 …

unemployment duration is positive and significant. Neglecting selectivity leads to an underestimation of the effects in absolute …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 …

effects of the treatment at a certain elapsed duration compared to "no treatment at any subsequent duration". We prove … identification under unconfoundedness and propose inverse probability weighting estimators. A key feature is that weights given to …

We show that the main nonparametric identification finding of Abbring and Van den Berg (2003b, Econometrica) for the … effect of a timing-chosen treatment on an event duration of interest does not hold. The main problem is that the … identification is based on the competing-risks identification result of Abbring and Van den Berg (2003a, Journal of the Royal …

variable in a way that guarantees or avoids assignment to the treatment. Standard identification arguments break down if this … unemployment insurance on unemployment duration in Brazil, where we find strong evidence of manipulation at eligibility cutoffs. …

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

duration variable, may be right-censored. The proposed tests study whether a policy 1) has zero distributional (average) effect … study, and an application about the effect of labor market programs on unemployment duration. Open-source software is …

In this paper, I consider the identification of lagged durationdependence in multiple spells without using the … applied to the multiple non-employment spells of 2066 newentrants. The estimated lagged duration dependence function rises for …