Browsing ECO Working Papers by Subject "Regression Discontinuity Design"

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Title: Cash-on-Hand and the Duration of Job Search. Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Norway Author(s): BASTEN, Christoph; FAGERENG, Andreas; TELLE, Kjetil Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: We identify the causal effect of lump-sum severance payments on non-employment duration in Norway by exploiting a discontinuity in eligibility at age 50. We find that a severance payment worth 1.2 months’ earnings at the ...
Title: Just A Matter of Time: Empirical Evidence of the Causal Effect of Education on Fertility in Italy Author(s): FORT, Margherita Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper assesses the causal effects of education on fertility, allowing for heterogeneity in the effects while controlling for the self-selection of women into education. Identification relies on exogenous variation ...

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