Search Results - subject:"statistical treatment rules"

Who should be Treated? Empirical Welfare Maximization Methods for Treatment Choice

Kitagawa, Toru; Tetenov, Aleksey - Collegio Carlo Alberto, Università degli Studi di Torino - 2015

One of the main objectives of empirical analysis of experiments and quasi-experiments is to inform policy decisions that determine the allocation of treatments to individuals with different observable covariates. We propose the Empirical Welfare Maximization (EWM) method, which estimates a...

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Targeting Labour Market Programmes - Results from a Randomized Experiment

Behncke, Stefanie; Frölich, Markus; Lechner, Michael - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 145 (2009) 3, pp. 221-268

We evaluate a randomized experiment of a statistical support system developed to assist caseworkers in Swiss employment offices in choosing appropriate active labour market programmes for their unemployed clients. The support system was piloted in several employment offices in which, randomly,...

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Targeting Labour Market Programmes - Results from a Randomized Experiment

Behncke, Stefanie; Frölich, Markus; Lechner, Michael - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (SJES) 145 (2009) III, pp. 221-268

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Targeting labour market programmes: results from a randomized experiment

Behnke, Stefanie; Frölich, Markus; Lechner, Michael - 2007

We evaluate a randomized experiment of a statistical support system developed to assist caseworkers in Swiss employment offices in choosing appropriate active labour market programmes for their unemployed clients. This statistical support system predicted the labour market outcome for each...

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A statistical programme assignment model

Staghøi, Jonas; Svarer, Michael; Rosholm, Michael - 2007

When treatment effects of active labour market programmes are heterogeneous in an observable way across the population, the allocation of the unemployed into different programmes becomes a particularly important issue. In this paper, we present a statistical model designed to improve the present...

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A Statistical Programme Assignment Model

Rosholm, Michael; Staghøj, Jonas; Svarer, Michael - School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus - 2007

Prediction). For more general description on statistical treatment rules see e.g. Dehejia (2005) and Eberts et al (2002). 3 case …, especially the interplay between the statistical model and case workers. Keywords: Pro�ling, Targeting, Statistical Treatment … Rules, Heterogeneous E�ects JEL Codes: J64, J68 Acknowledgement: We thank seminar participants at University of Michigan …

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Statistical treatment choice: an application to active labour market programmes

Frölich, Markus - 2006

Choosing among a number of available treatments the most suitable for a given subject is an issue of everyday concern. A physician has to choose an appropriate drug treatment or medical treatment for a given patient, based on a number of observed covariates X and prior experience. A case worker...

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Statistical treatment choice: An application to active labour market programmes

Frölich, Markus - 2006

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Statistical treatment choice: an application to active labour market programmes

Frölich, Markus - Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (CEMMAP) - 2006

is described. Keywords: Statistical treatment rules, active labour market policies JEL classi�cation: C13, C14 The author …

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Statistically assisted programme selection : international experiences and potential benefits for Switzerland

Frölich, Markus; Lechner, Michael; Steiger, Heidi - 2004

The need for better targeting of active labour market programmes is evident from the many evaluation studies that find insignificant or even negative effects. A statistical system could contribute to a more precise targeting of labour market programmes to those individuals who are likely to...

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