Using Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Networks for the Design of Monte Carlo Simulations
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In: NBER Working Paper No. w15760
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In: NBER Working Paper No. w11939
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In: American economic review, Band 91, Heft 4, S. 778-794
ISSN: 1944-7981
This paper provides empirical evidence about the effect of unearned income on earnings, consumption, and savings. Using an original survey of people playing the lottery in Massachusetts in the mid-1980's, we analyze the effects of the magnitude of lottery prizes on economic behavior. The critical assumption is that among lottery winners the magnitude of the prize is randomly assigned. We find that unearned income reduces labor earnings, with a marginal propensity to consume leisure of approximately 11 percent, with larger effects for individuals between 55 and 65 years old. After receiving about half their prize, individuals saved about 16 percent. (JEL C81, D12, E21, J22, J26)
In: IZA Discussion Paper No. 15907
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In: NBER Working Paper No. w24003
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In: NBER Working Paper No. w20325
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In: NBER Working Paper No. w16039
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In: American economic review, Band 111, Heft 12, S. 4088-4118
ISSN: 1944-7981
We present a new estimator for causal effects with panel data that builds on insights behind the widely used difference-in-differences and synthetic control methods. Relative to these methods we find, both theoretically and empirically, that this "synthetic difference-in-differences" estimator has desirable robustness properties, and that it performs well in settings where the conventional estimators are commonly used in practice. We study the asymptotic behavior of the estimator when the systematic part of the outcome model includes latent unit factors interacted with latent time factors, and we present conditions for consistency and asymptotic normality. (JEL C23, H25, H71, I18, L66)
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In: NBER Working Paper No. w25132
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In: NBER Working Paper No. t0324
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In: NBER Working Paper No. t0330
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In: IZA Discussion Paper No. 2091
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