A Life-cycle model of human capital formation and educational choices in developing economies (2008)
In impoverished societies a shock to the households resources often results in a decision to reduce the contemporaneous investment on childrens education. Although such shocks may be transitory...
This paper estimates the effect of experiencing the onset of an adverse health condition on the retirement decision of European workers. Conditional on institutional characteristics (country and...
AIDS continues to have a devastating effect on developing countries, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. The lack of a proven effective vaccine to stop HIV transmission has lead to much of public...
Michael Lechner, Rosalia Vazquez-alvarez
This paper develops a life-cycle model of labour supply that captures endogenous human capital formation allowing for individuals heterogeneous responses to stochastic labour market shocks. The...
Bounds, health habits and anchoring income effects (2007)
Surveys are often design so that initial non-respondents to some continuous amount can disclose partial information with follow-up questions. These questions are often based on prompting responses...
Identification and Estimation with Partial Respondents and Anchoring Effects (2007)
Household surveys often suffer from nonresponse on variable such as income, savings or wealth. The work by Charles F. Manski in the 1990s shows how bounds on conditional quantiles on the variable of...
Diskussionspapier, Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen#### The HIV/AIDS epidemic is a major public health threat, with evidence showing that information campaigns are effective...
The Effect of Disability on Labour Market Outcomes in Germany: Evidence from Matching (2003)
Michael Lechner, Rosalia Vazquez-alvarez
If labour market policies aimed at people with disabilities are effective, we should observe no significant difference in labour market outcomes between disabled and non-disabled individuals. This...
Anchoring Bias and Covariate Nonresponse (2003)
Non-random item nonresponse makes identification of parameters problematic. Such nonresponse can occur with respect to both dependent and conditioning variables. A method often used to reduce...
Health Indicators, Health Systems and the Annual Report of the World Health Organization (2000)
Every year the World Health Organization (WHO) publishes an annual report that summarizes the status of public health for all UN member countries. Such report analysis aspects such as...
Michael Lechner, Rosalia Vazquez-Alvarez
This paper develops a life-cycle model of labour supply that captures endogenous human capital formation allowing for individual’s heterogeneous responses to stochastic labour market shocks. The...
The Effect of Disability on Labour Market Outcomes in Germany: Evidence from Matching
Lechner, Michael, Vazquez-Alvarez, Rosalia
If labour market policies aimed at people with disabilities are effective, we should observe no significant difference in labour market outcomes between disable and non-disable individuals. This...
Michael Lechner, Rosalia Vazquez-Alvarez
This paper develops a life-cycle model of labour supply that captures endogenous human capital formation allowing for individual’s heterogeneous responses to stochastic labour market shocks. The...
The Effect of Disability on Labour Market Outcomes in Germany: Evidence from Matching
Lechner, Michael, Vazquez-Alvarez, Rosalia
If labour market policies aimed at people with disabilities are effective, we should observe no significant difference in labour market outcomes between disabled and non-disabled individuals. This...
Anchoring Bias and Covariate Nonresponse
Non-random item nonreponse makes identification if parameters problematic. Such nonresponse can occur with respect to both dependent and conditioning variables. A method often used to reduce...
The Effect of Disability on Labour Market Outcomes in Germany: Evidence from Matching
Michael Lechner, Rosalia Vazquez-Alvarez
If labour market policies aimed at people with disabilities are effective, we should observe no significant difference in labour market outcomes between disable and non-disable individuals. This...