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Always Be Prepared: Lessons Learned From Risk‐Coping Strategies of Thai Households in the Wake of Two Major Economic Crises

open access: yesInternational Studies of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper aimed to comparatively examine the function of three risk‐coping strategies, namely savings, borrowings, and work‐hour adjustments, during two major economic crises in Thailand. Using the Socioeconomic Survey (SES) collected by the National Statistical Office (NSO) in Thailand, we examined data from the 1998 financial crisis and the
Aeggarchat Sirisankanan, Papar Kananurak
wiley   +1 more source

Association between the unemployment rate and inpatient cost per discharge by payer in the United States, 2005-2010. [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Health Serv Res, 2014
Maeda JL   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Temporary VAT Reduction in Vietnam: Consumer Behavior Analysis

open access: yesInternational Studies of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the impact of temporary VAT rate changes on consumer behavior in Vietnam, particularly concerning the VAT reduction implemented during 2023–2024. The research analyzes annual survey data and household expenditure reports to assess changes in consumer spending on durable goods during the first half of 2024 (2024 H1 ...
Hang Thi Thu Trinh
wiley   +1 more source

Estimating Treatment Effects With Limited Exogeneity: A Machine Learning Approach to Selection Bias

open access: yesInternational Studies of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents a novel method for estimating treatment effects in cases where prior knowledge of the exogeneity of the treatment variable is limited. We employ a machine learning technique, double selection via Lasso, to identify a robust set of control variables without requiring prior assumptions about their specific identities or ...
Rui Sun, Shiyi Chen
wiley   +1 more source

Earnings Expectations and Educational Sorting: An Ex‐Ante Perspective on Returns to University Education

open access: yesJournal of Applied Econometrics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We estimate ex‐ante treatment effects in earnings for attending university using survey data of the expectations of Stockholm high school students under different educational counterfactuals. Although the levels of earnings expectations are reasonable, they differ between stated and revealed educational preferences.
Nikolay Angelov   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Forecasting Natural Gas Prices in Real Time

open access: yesJournal of Applied Econometrics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the forecastability of the real price of natural gas in the United States at the monthly frequency considering a universe of models that differ in complexity and economic content. We find that considerable reductions in mean‐squared prediction error relative to a no‐change benchmark can be ...
Christiane Baumeister   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The PCDID Approach to Treatment Effects Estimation: A Further Investigation

open access: yesJournal of Applied Econometrics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the present paper, we study the so‐called “PCDID” approach to treatment effects estimation in panels with interactive effects where the factors represent trends whose effect need not be parallel across the cross‐sectional units. Our interest in this step‐wise approach originates with the observation that the interactive effects are ignored ...
Tilman Bretschneider, Joakim Westerlund
wiley   +1 more source

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