Essays about: "Difference-in-Difference approach"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 47 essays containing the words Difference-in-Difference approach.

1. 11. The terror attacks of 2015 in Paris and their effect on Perceived Discrimination : The Swedish experience

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi och statistik (NS)

   Author : Bardh Manxhuka; Max Hägglund; [2021]
   Keywords : Ethnic discrimination; Perceived discrimination; Exogenous shock; Probability; Ethnicity; Terrorism; Immigrants; Country of birth; Middle East; Sweden.;

   Abstract : Using a quasi-experimental approach, this study analyses the effects of a specific exogenous shock on ethnic discrimination in Sweden by treating the terror attacks of 2015 in Paris as a natural experiment. Our research is based on cross-sectional survey data published by the European Social Survey (ESS). READ MORE

3. 12. Does childcare availability influence the gender pay gap? A natural experiment using Swiss cantons

   University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

   Author : Nora Bearth; [2021]
   Keywords : Gender Pay Gap; Childcare; Family Policies; Difference-in-Difference; Switzerland;

   Abstract : Does an increase in childcare availability reduce the gender pay gap? I contribute to answering this question by investigating the effect of a childcare expansion in 2003 in Switzerland on the gender pay gap and hourly pay of men and women. For this purpose, I use administrative data from the Swiss Labour Force Survey (SAKE) on the employment of permanent residents of Switzerland and data on the number of childcare places in different cantons of Switzerland collected by Ravazzini, Delphine, and Suter (2016). READ MORE

4. 13. User Choice in Elderly Care in Sweden: Quality, Cost, and Covid-19

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Karolina Westin; [2021]
   Keywords : Quasi-market; user choice; elderly care; variation in treatment timing; treatment effect heterogeneity; staggered Difference-in-Difference;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates the impacts of user choice in Swedish elderly care on quality and cost as well as the impact of marketisation on the Covid-19 death toll. In the last three decades welfare service provision in Sweden has been increasingly marketised. READ MORE

5. 14. Assessing the effectiveness of the 2011 feed-in tariff policy for wind power in Finland

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Iisa Östring; [2020-07-10]
   Keywords : Wind power; Renewable energy; Feed-in tariff; Renewable energy policy; Panel data models; Difference-in-difference; Finland;

   Abstract : In 2011, Finland implemented a feed-in tariff in order to accelerate investments in wind power production throughout the country, since the wind power industry was not meeting the target production volume. The Finnish feed-in tariff stopped accepting new wind power projects into the scheme in 2017, and this study performed an analysis of the overall effectiveness of the feed-in tariff by aiming to answer the question: “Did the feed-in tariff implemented in 2011 enhance the deployment of wind power in Finland and to what extent?”. READ MORE

6. 15. The Effects of Non-Compete Agreements Enforceability on Entrepreneurship in the United States, 1995-2011

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Yotam Sofer; [2020]
   Keywords : Non-compete agreements; NCA; current population survey; CPS; business dynamics statistics; DBS; Firms starts; start-ups; Silicon-Valley; Route 128; knowledge spillovers; state-year variation; Difference-in-difference; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : Restrictions of future employment in the form of non-compete agreements (agreements that restrict an employee from joining, forming, associating, or starting a competing firm) are commonly used in the American labor market. Yet their effects on entrepreneurship is not fully understood. READ MORE