scholarly journals The Effect of Montana's 24/7 Sobriety Program on DUI Re-arrest: Insights from a Natural Experiment with Limited Administrative Data

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greg Midgette ◽  
Beau Kilmer
Keyword(s):  
Administrative Data ◽  
Natural Experiment

scholarly journals The Effect of Changing Financial Incentives on Repartnering*

2019 ◽  
Vol 129 (623) ◽  
pp. 2833-2866 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hayley Fisher ◽  
Anna Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Administrative Data ◽  
Financial Incentives ◽  
Natural Experiment ◽  
Policy Reform ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Lone Parents ◽  
Lone Mothers ◽  
Data Capturing ◽  
Relationship Breakdown

AbstractThis article examines how a reduction in the financial resources available to lone parents affects repartnering. We exploit an Australian natural experiment that reduced the financial resources available to a subset of separating parents. Using biweekly administrative data capturing separations occurring among low- and middle- income couples, we show that the policy reform significantly increased the speed of repartnering for affected separating mothers. The results demonstrate that one way that lone mothers respond to a reduction in financial resources available at the time of relationship breakdown is by repartnering more quickly.

scholarly journals Familiarity Does Not Breed Contempt: Generosity, Discrimination, and Diversity in Delhi Schools

2019 ◽  
Vol 109 (3) ◽  
pp. 774-809 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gautam Rao
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Administrative Data ◽  
Academic Outcomes ◽  
Natural Experiment ◽  
Field Experiments ◽  
Social Behaviors ◽  
Poor Students ◽  
Indian Schools ◽  
The Social ◽  
Personal Interactions

I exploit a natural experiment in Indian schools to study how being integrated with poor students affects the social behaviors and academic outcomes of rich students. Using administrative data, lab and field experiments to measure outcomes, I find that having poor classmates makes rich students (i) more prosocial, generous, and egalitarian; and (ii) less likely to discriminate against poor students, and more willing to socialize with them. These effects are driven by personal interactions between rich and poor students. In contrast, I find mixed but overall modest impacts on rich students’ academic achievement. (JEL C90, D31, I21, I24, O15, Z13)

scholarly journals The Big Sort: College Reputation and Labor Market Outcomes

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 223-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Bentley MacLeod ◽  
Evan Riehl ◽  
Juan E. Saavedra ◽  
Miguel Urquiola
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Administrative Data ◽  
Natural Experiment ◽  
Labor Market Outcomes ◽  
Market Model ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Earnings Growth ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Competitive Labor Market ◽  
Simple Definition

We explore how college reputation affects the “big sort,” the process by which students choose colleges and find their first jobs. We incorporate a simple definition of college reputation—graduates' mean admission scores—into a competitive labor market model. This generates a clear prediction: if employers use reputation to set wages, then the introduction of a new measure of individual skill will decrease the return to reputation. Administrative data and a natural experiment from the country of Colombia confirm this. Finally, we show that college reputation is positively correlated with graduates' earnings growth, suggesting that reputation matters beyond signaling individual skill. (JEL I23, I26, J24, J31)

Getting the Measure of Twins

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Viney
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Effects ◽  
Natural Experiment ◽  
Human Genetics ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Identical Twin ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Modern Biology ◽  
Stephen Jay Gould

Stephen Jay Gould, the biologist and author, once joked that were he an identical twin raised separately from his brother they could ‘hire ourselves out to a host of social scientists and practically name our fee’. In order to monetise Gould’s fantasy, one would want a form of twinship that could operate according to evidential, experimental, somatic and circumstantial ideals. And Gould admits that he and his brother would need to be viewed as ‘the only really adequate natural experiment for separating genetic from environmental effects in humans’. This chapter seeks to interrogate the evidential and experimental circumstances that may underpin the comic quips that guide modern biology. In human genetics, twins are used as experimental bodies that are made to matter in particular ways and for particular people; they become newly ‘animate’ for being enrolled into scientific research. Raised in cultures assumed to be alike or dissimilar, isolated by researchers for being valuable in the measured disentanglement of assembled molecular agents (which are sometimes distinguished from an assemblage referred to as an ‘environment’), twins achieve a status of experimental significance not just for what they do but also for what they are taken to be.

Reconciling Trends in Volatility: Evidence from the SIPP Survey and Administrative Data

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Carr ◽  
Robert Moffitt ◽  
Emily Wiemers
Keyword(s):  
Administrative Data

Epidemiology of pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma: population-based cohort study

2021 ◽  
Vol 184 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-28
Author(s):  
Alexander A Leung ◽  
Janice L Pasieka ◽  
Martin D Hyrcza ◽  
Danièle Pacaud ◽  
Yuan Dong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cohort Study ◽  
Administrative Data ◽  
Laboratory Data ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Incidence Rates ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Administrative Databases ◽  
Secondary Objective ◽  
True Frequency ◽  
Clinical Records

Objective Despite the significant morbidity and mortality associated with pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma, little is known about their epidemiology. The primary objective was to determine the incidence of pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma in an ethnically diverse population. A secondary objective was to develop and validate algorithms for case detection using laboratory and administrative data. Design Population-based cohort study in Alberta, Canada from 2012 to 2019. Methods Patients with pheochromocytoma or paraganglioma were identified using linked administrative databases and clinical records. Annual incidence rates per 100 000 people were calculated and stratified according to age and sex. Algorithms to identify pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma, based on laboratory and administrative data, were evaluated. Results A total of 239 patients with pheochromocytoma or paraganglioma (collectively with 251 tumors) were identified from a population of 5 196 368 people over a period of 7 years. The overall incidence of pheochromocytoma or paraganglioma was 0.66 cases per 100 000 people per year. The frequency of pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma increased with age and was highest in individuals aged 60–79 years (8.85 and 14.68 cases per 100 000 people per year for males and females, respectively). An algorithm based on laboratory data (metanephrine >two-fold or normetanephrine >three-fold higher than the upper limit of normal) closely approximated the true frequency of pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma with an estimated incidence of 0.54 cases per 100 000 people per year. Conslusion The incidence of pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma in an unselected population of western Canada was unexpectedly higher than rates reported from other areas of the world.

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