@article{Bartolini:211200, recid = {211200}, author = {Bartolini, Fabio and Brunori, Gianluca and Coli, Alessandra and Landi, Chiara and Pacini, Barbara}, title = {Assessing the Causal Effect of Decoupled Payments on farm labour in Tuscany Using Propensity Score Methods}, address = {2015}, number = {1008-2016-80180}, pages = {24}, year = {2015}, abstract = {We analyze the impact on employment of the 2003/2005 CAP reform (decoupled payments) in Tuscany farms. We use data coming from census (2000 and 2010) and administrative archives, and apply propensity score-based methods to evaluate the average treatment effect of pay- ments on employment-related outcomes, taking into account that the assignment mechanism of payments was non-random. We further investigate impact heterogeneity using a generalized propensity-score matching methodology focussing on a subgroup of farms. Results show that there exists some effect of the payments on employment and that the impact is heterogeneous over the different amounts of payments.}, url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/211200}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.211200}, }