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From homemakers to breadwinners? How mandatory kindergarten affects maternal labour market outcomes
Selina Gangl, Martin Huber
The majority of Swiss children attend mandatory and cost-free kindergarten at four. We examine the effect of this policy on maternal labour market outcomes. Using administrative da…
Testing Monotonicity of Mean Potential Outcomes in a Continuous Treatment with High-Dimensional Data
Yu-Chin Hsu, Martin Huber, Ying-Ying Lee +1
While most treatment evaluations focus on binary interventions, a growing literature also considers continuously distributed treatments. We propose a Cramér-von Mises-type test for…
How residence permits affect the labor market attachment of foreign workers: Evidence from a migration lottery in Liechtenstein
Berno Buechel, Selina Gangl, Martin Huber
We analyze the impact of obtaining a residence permit on foreign workers' labor market and residential attachment. To overcome the usually severe selection issues, we exploit a uni…
Business analytics meets artificial intelligence: Assessing the demand effects of discounts on Swiss train tickets
Martin Huber, Jonas Meier, Hannes Wallimann
We assess the demand effects of discounts on train tickets issued by the Swiss Federal Railways, the so-called `supersaver tickets', based on machine learning, a subfield of artifi…
Deep learning for detecting bid rigging: Flagging cartel participants based on convolutional neural networks
Martin Huber, David Imhof
Adding to the literature on the data-driven detection of bid-rigging cartels, we propose a novel approach based on deep learning (a subfield of artificial intelligence) that flags…
The fiscal response to revenue shocks
Simon Berset, Martin Huber, Mark Schelker
We study the impact of fiscal revenue shocks on local fiscal policy. We focus on the very volatile revenues from the immovable property gains tax in the canton of Zurich, Switzerla…