This paper investigates neighborhood peer eff ects on individual welfare using a combined IV and control function approach. The empirical analysis is based on panel data for the years 2007-2010 constructed by enriching the geo-referenced version of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) with aggregated zip code level-information. The results suggest that individual welfare use is positively co...

Difference-in-differences with matching is a popular method to measure the impact of an intervention in health as well as social sciences. This method requires baseline data, i.e., data before interventions, which are not always available in reality. Instead, panel data with two time periods are often collected after interventions begin. In this paper, a simple matching method is proposed to me...

Exploiting a rich panel data set on anti-ulcer drug prescriptions, we measure the effects of uncertainty and learning in the demand for pharmaceutical drugs. We estimate a dynamic matching model of demand under uncertainty in which patients learn from prescription experience about the effectiveness of alternative drugs. Unlike previous models, we allow drugs to have distinct symptomatic and cur...

We evaluate the short-term impact of financial support to smallholder farmers and training program to married women in two regions of Ethiopia. Using household-level panel data from the World Bank collected in 2010-2012, the combined Difference-In-Difference (DID) and matching methods are applied. The three main findings emerge from the analysis shows that first; the program seems to improve ru...

This study examined the relationship between dividend policy and share price movements with evidence from firms listed on Nigerian Stock Exchange. A systemization literary approach for data analysis was panel regression Generalized Methods of Moments (GMM). Panel covering year 2011-2020 were obtained financial statements twenty stock exchange. It discovered that yield has negative movement. Div...

This paper exploits the differential timing of the introduction of a labor market program across areas as well as agerelated eligibility rules to identify the treatment effect of a targeted active labor market program. We are especially concerned about substitution and equilibrium wage effects. The program studied is the “New Deal for the Young Unemployed” in the UK and uses an administrative p...

Difference-in differences strategies are simple panel data methods applied to sets of group means in cases when certain groups are exposed to the causing variable of interest and others are not. The approach is well suited to estimating the effect of sharp changes in the economic environment or changes in government policy when a suitable control group can be found. We’ll consider the Diff-indi...