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RD Examples: Lalive (2007, J of Econometrics) Examines whether extended benefits affect unemployment duration • Analyzes effect of a targeted program that extends the max duration of unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to 209 weeks in Austria for individuals 50 and older living in certain geographic regions. • There are sharp discontinuities in treatment assignment at age 50 and at the geographical border between eligible and ineligible regions. • Uses social security data and data on unemployed. • Two identification strategies: (i) compare individuals around the age cut-off, (ii) compare individuals across geographic borders • Finds that job search is prolonged by 0.09 weeks per additional week of benefits for women and unemployment duration increase by 0.32 weeks per additional week of benefits for women.
RD Examples: Lalive (2007, J of Econometrics)
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Page 5 and 6: Assignment to Treatment • Let (Xi
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Page 13 and 14: Define compliance status • Compli
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Page 21 and 22: Boundary bias plimˆµr (c)= c+h c
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Page 25 and 26: Smoothing parameter selection • F
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