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Impact of broadband speed on household income : comparing OECD and BIC ; Presented at 24th European Regional Conference of the International Telecommunications Society, Florence

Rohman, Ibrahim Kholilul; Bohlin, Erik - 2013 - Preliminary draft

This paper aims to measure the impact of broadband speed access and upgrades on the household income based on a survey … most previous studies on broadband emphasize the penetration rate as the variable of interest. Moreover, by digging deeper … on broadband speed (rather than broadband penetration rate), the problem concerning "broadband definition" that varies …

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Behavioral responses and welfare reform : evidence from a randomized experiment

Hartley, Robert Paul; Lamarche, Carlos - 2017

Recent studies have used a distributional analysis of welfare reform experiments suggesting that some individuals reduce hours in order to opt into welfare, an example of behavioral-induced participation. Using data on Connecticut's Jobs First experiment, we find no evidence of...

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Urban resilience and social security uptake : New Zealand evidence from the global financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic

Cochrane, William; Poot, Jacques; Roskruge, Matthew - 2022

This paper focuses on the spatial variation in the uptake of social security benefits following a large and detrimental exogenous shock. Specifically, we focus on the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We construct a two-period panel of 66 Territorial...

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Using multiple outcomes to improve synthetic control method

Sun, Liyang; Ben-Michael, Eli; Feller, Avi - 2023

When there are multiple outcome series of interest, Synthetic Control analyses typically proceed by estimating separate weights for each outcome. In this paper, we instead propose estimating a common set of weights across outcomes, by balancing either a vector of all outcomes or an index or...

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Econometric evaluation of EU Cohesion Policy : a survey

Hagen, Tobias; Mohl, Philipp - 2009

More than one third of the European Union's total budget is spent on socalled Cohesion Policy via the structural funds. Its main purpose is to promote the development of the EU and to support convergence between the levels of development of the various European regions. Investigating the impact...

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EU structural funds and regional income convergence : a sobering experience

Breidenbach, Philipp; Mitze, Timo; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2016

The European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) are the prime instrument of EU regional policy. European policy makers place considerable hope into their growth stimulating funding measures to overcome current economic stagnation. Consequently, there is a strong need for credible evidence...

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