Given the growing dissatisfaction with exclusion and long-run restrictions in structural vector autoregressive analysis, sign restrictions are becoming increasingly popular. So far there are no techniques for validating the shocks identified via such restrictions. Although in an ideal setting the sign restrictions specify shocks of interest, sign restrictions may be invalidated by measurement...
Helmut Lütkepohl, Aleksei Netsunajev
Hannover,
25.04.2012
| Seminar: Institut für Statistik, Leibniz-Universität Hannover
Erika Schulz
Brüssel, Belgien,
24.04.2012
| Policies and Practice: Demographic Changes - Health Care and Services for Childcare: Conference of the European Affairs Delegate at Edenred
Ghassan Baliki
Kampala, Uganda,
23.04.2012
- 24.04.2012| Post-Conflict Recovery and Development: The Case of Uganda: Workshop of the Training and Mobility Network for the Economic Analysis of Conflict (TAMNEAC)
Tilman Brück
Kampala, Uganda,
23.04.2012
- 24.04.2012| Post-Conflict Recovery and Development: The Case of Uganda: Workshop of the Training and Mobility Network for the Economic Analysis of Conflict (TAMNEAC)
Tilman Brück
Kampala, Uganda,
23.04.2012
- 24.04.2012| Post-Conflict Recovery and Development: The Case of Uganda: Workshop of the Training and Mobility Network for the Economic Analysis of Conflict (TAMNEAC)
Margerita Calderone
Kampala, Uganda,
23.04.2012
- 24.04.2012| Post-Conflict Recovery and Development: The Case of Uganda: Workshop of the Training and Mobility Network for the Economic Analysis of Conflict (TAMNEAC)
Nathan Fiala
Kampala, Uganda,
23.04.2012
- 24.04.2012| Post-Conflict Recovery and Development: The Case of Uganda: Workshop of the Training and Mobility Network for the Economic Analysis of Conflict (TAMNEAC)
This paper proposes a structural life-cycle model to analyze the relationship between health risks, early retirement and saving behavior for employees in Germany. I rely on the framework of a dynamic programming discrete choice model with a discretized saving decision. The model accounts for both forward looking behavior and unobserved heterogeneity which is specified seminonparametrically. Health...
Daniel Kemptner
Buch am Ammersee,
23.04.2012
- 29.04.2012| 15th IZA European Summer School in Labor Economics
This paper estimates the effect of involuntary job loss on smoking behavior and body weight using German Socio-Economic Panel Study data. Baseline nonsmokers are more likely to start smoking due to job loss, while smokers do not intensify their smoking. Job loss increases body weight slightly, but significantly. In particular, single individuals as well as those with lower health or socioeconomic...
Jan Marcus
Buch am Ammersee,
23.04.2012
- 29.04.2012| 15th IZA European Summer School in Labor Economics
The study analyses the relationship between access to rural product markets and the extent and nature of child labour. It is built on the view that if physical markets can shape rural development through, for instance, influencing prices, household production decisions and employment, the associated activity growth could increase child labour. Using household survey data from Uganda, I find that...
Tony Muhumuza
Buch am Ammersee,
23.04.2012
- 29.04.2012| 15th IZA European Summer School in Labor Economics
Negative effects of job loss on adults such as considerable fall in income have long been examined. If job loss has negative consequences for adults it may spread to their children. But potential effects on children's non-cognitive skills and the related mechanisms have been less examined. This paper uses propensity score matching to analyze maternal involuntary job loss and its potential causal...
Frauke H. Peter
Buch am Ammersee,
23.04.2012
- 29.04.2012| 15th IZA European Summer School in Labor Economics