The Optimal Timing of Unemployment Benefits
Kolsrud; Landais; Nilsson; Spinnewijn (2018). American Economic Review.
Under development — community extension. This is a provisional source-design assessment, not a new successful replication or a final eligibility ruling.
Extension index · Provisional eligibility log · Assessment JSON · QMD · Reproduction code
Source design and template applicability
The empirical target uses the unemployment-benefit schedule kink and DD-RKD; the public R target reproduces structural calibration artifacts. Neither is the template binary-adoption ATT, and confidential register microdata are absent.
No DiD estimates, uncertainty intervals or homogeneity-test decision were computed in this tranche. No point is added to the calibration plots. This is not a zero effect or a failed statistical test.
Recorded treatment-column measurement
Data unavailable.
Individual unemployment-claim data needed for benefit-schedule assignment are not deposited; supplied calibration targets are not treatment observations.
These are the existing data-measured counts, not counts inferred from design labels. A binary instrument, group indicator or interaction component need not be the treatment of interest; the source-design assessment above takes precedence for template applicability.
Replication status
This tranche: unsupported design; source code/documentation inspected, no estimator run.
Supplied library: no_did_analysis_data; verification: no scalar DiD target; preparation: runs_with_shim. These are the library’s labels, not new verification claims. Missing data and unsupported designs are separate issues.
Evidence and provenance
The following files in the supplied library were inspected. Their SHA-256 digests are recorded in the downloadable assessment JSON. Source archives and microdata are not redistributed.
AER/Kolsrud_Landais_Nilsson_Spinnewijn_AER_2018_113144/R/01_replicate_empirical_results.R(144 lines)AER/Kolsrud_Landais_Nilsson_Spinnewijn_AER_2018_113144/verdict.md(89 lines)AER/Kolsrud_Landais_Nilsson_Spinnewijn_AER_2018_113144/verdict_supplement.md(36 lines)AER/Kolsrud_Landais_Nilsson_Spinnewijn_AER_2018_113144/aeraej-547.md(75 lines)