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Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 123 avhandlingar innehållade ordet quasi-experimental.
16. Partial and General Equilibrium Effects of Unemployment Insurance : Identification, Estimation and Inference
Sammanfattning : Essay I: Wage setting models typically posit a tight relationship between the generosity of unemployment insurance (UI) and equilibrium wages. This paper estimates the effect of UI on workers’ wages. LÄS MER
17. Assessing the effects of societal injury control interventions
Sammanfattning : Injuries have emerged as one of the biggest public health issues of the 21th century. Yet, the causal effects of injury control strategies are often questioned due to a lack of randomized experiments. LÄS MER
18. Essays on Conflict, Gender and Household-Decision Making
Sammanfattning : This Ph.D. thesis in Economics consists of five self-contained chapters on various topics in Development and Behavioral Economics.Preparing for genocide: Quasi-experimental evidence from Rwanda examines if a mandatory community program contributed to fostering acceptance and participation in the ethnic violence during the Rwandan genocide in 1994. LÄS MER
19. Legal coercion of substance abusers; investigation, treatment and outcome
Sammanfattning : Commitment to involuntary care is a multistage process comprising many different aspects; legal, psychological, medical, social and ethical among others (Schottenfeld,1989; Klag, O’Callaghan & Creed, 2005; Kleinig, 2004). It can also be analyzed from the perspective of a continuum starting from the report to the legal and social authorities, the investigations on whether to commit or not, the actual commitment and aftercare following involuntary treatment. LÄS MER
20. Measuring Professional Judgements : An Application of the Factorial Survey Approach to the Field of Social Work
Sammanfattning : The focus of this thesis is the factorial survey approach as a method for studying professional judgements in social work. The factorial survey approach, which was first introduced in the social sciences around the beginning of the 1980s, constitutes an advanced method for measuring human judgements of social objects. LÄS MER