8 papers
The Gender Pay Gap Revisited with Big Data: Do Methodological Choices Matter?
Anthony Strittmatter, Conny Wunsch
The vast majority of existing studies that estimate the average unexplained gender pay gap use unnecessarily restrictive linear versions of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition. Using…
Identifying causal channels of policy reforms with multiple treatments and different types of selection
Annabelle Doerr, Anthony Strittmatter
We study the identification of channels of policy reforms with multiple treatments and different types of selection for each treatment. We disentangle reform effects into policy ef…
Decisions and Performance Under Bounded Rationality: A Computational Benchmarking Approach
Dainis Zegners, Uwe Sunde, Anthony Strittmatter
This paper presents a novel approach to analyze human decision-making that involves comparing the behavior of professional chess players relative to a computational benchmark of co…
Direct and Indirect Effects based on Changes-in-Changes
Martin Huber, Mark Schelker, Anthony Strittmatter
We propose a novel approach for causal mediation analysis based on changes-in-changes assumptions restricting unobserved heterogeneity over time. This allows disentangling the caus…
Sorting on the Used-Car Market After the Volkswagen Emission Scandal
Anthony Strittmatter, Michael Lechner
The disclosure of the VW emission manipulation scandal caused a quasi-experimental market shock to the observable environmental quality of VW diesel vehicles. To investigate the ma…
Heterogeneous Earnings Effects of the Job Corps by Gender Earnings: A Translated Quantile Approach
Anthony Strittmatter
Several studies of the Job Corps tend to nd more positive earnings effects for males than for females. This effect heterogeneity favouring males contrasts with the results of the m…