Essays about: "regression kink design"

Found 2 essays containing the words regression kink design.

1. 1. Unconditional cash transfers to single mothers effective for child education? – Using a historical policy experiment

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Linnea Karlsson; [2023]
   Keywords : Unconditional cash transfers; needs-based cash grants; welfare targeting; human capital development accumulation; skill formation technology; regression kink design;

   Abstract : In this thesis, I examine whether unconditional cash transfers to poor femaleheaded households have an effect on children’s educational attainment. Using a historical Swedish child allowance policy that targeted unconditional cash transfers to widow mothers with an income below a poverty threshold, I lay out a credible identification strategy, to test the hypothesis with a regression kink design. READ MORE

3. 2. Reference Dependent Preference towards Risk : Evidence from the U.S. Professional Golf Tour

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Ström Isak; [2019]
   Keywords : Behavioral Economics; Prospect Theory; Risk Preferences; Beteendeekonomi; Prospect Theory; Riskpreferenser;

   Abstract : The standing debate regarding how preferences should be defined is still evident in research today. Are they invariant to current endowment as a neoclassical practitioner would proclaim, or reference dependent as a behavioural economist would state? This theoretical discrepancy, regarding how preferences should be defined, when agents are experienced at what they do is found by List (2003) to be non-existing. READ MORE