Sökning: "regression kink design"

Hittade 2 uppsatser innehållade orden regression kink design.

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

   Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

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

   Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER

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

   Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Författare :Ström Isak; [2019]
   Nyckelord :Behavioral Economics; Prospect Theory; Risk Preferences; Beteendeekonomi; Prospect Theory; Riskpreferenser;

   Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER