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Kausale Evaluation von Pilotprojekten: Die Nutzung von Randomisierung in der Praxis
Arni, Patrick - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Wirkungsevaluationen stehen oft vor der Herausforderung, Kausalität zwischen der betrachteten neuen Politikmassnahme und den resultierenden Outcomes herzustellen. Mangelnde Vergleichbarkeit zwischen der Programmgruppe (neue Politik) und der Kontrollgruppe (Status Quo) macht oft eine kausale...
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Behind the GATE Experiment: Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training
Fairlie, Robert W.; Karlan, Dean; Zinman, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Various theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs throughout the world. Using data from the largest randomized control trial ever conducted on entrepreneurship training, we examine the validity of such motivations and find that...
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Building in an Evaluation Component for Active Labor Market Programs: A Practitioner's Guide
Card, David E.; Ibarraran, Pablo; Villa, Juan Miguel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
The guide outlines the main evaluation challenges associated with ALMP’s, and shows how to obtain rigorous impact estimates using two leading evaluation approaches. The most credible and straightforward evaluation method is a randomized design, in which a group of potential participants is...
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Does Technical Assistance Matter? An Impact Evaluation Approach to Estimate its Value Added
Marcano, Luis; Ruprah, Inder J. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009
Many public programs and operations by multilateral organisations include technical assistance to the direct beneficiaries of the program in addition to pure financing. However, there is no substantial body of studies that calculates the additional impact; in the sense of exclusively...
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An Impact Evaluation of Chile’s Progressive Housing Program
Marcano, Luis; Ruprah, Inder J. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2008
cautions against the mechanical use of cost benefit calculations for policy decisions: the program’s internal rate of return …
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Fear of Crime: Does Trust and Community Participation Matter?
Luengas, Pavel; Ruprah, Inder J. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2008
This paper examines the association between trust and community involvement with fear of crime. Fear of crime is … neighborhood crime prevention program does not affect the fear of crime. Thus the evidence challenges the general idea that … involvement in one’s community and the specific idea of community participation in neighborhood crime prevention programs reduce …
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A Meta-Impact Evaluation of Social Housing Programs: The Chilean Case
Ruprah, Inder J; Marcano, Luis T - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007
The Chilean's housing policy and programs are one of the most copied amongst the Chilean policies. The homegrown policy was and is considered a vanguard way of approaching housing problems. This paper presents the findings of a meta-evaluation of Chile's Social Housing Programs. We found that,...
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Experimental Analysis of Neighborhood Effects
Kling, Jeffrey Richard; Liebman, Jeffrey B.; Katz, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
Families, primarily female-headed minority households with children, living in high-poverty public housing projects in five U.S. cities were offered housing vouchers by lottery in the Moving to Opportunity program. Four to seven years after random assignment, families offered vouchers lived in...
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Does the Quality of Training Programs Matter? Evidence from Bidding Processes Data
Chong, Alberto; Galdo, Jose - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We estimate the effect of training quality on earnings using a Peruvian program, which targets disadvantaged youths. The identification of causal effects is possible because of two attractive features in the data. First, selection of training courses is based on public bidding processes that...
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Long-Term Neighborhood Effects on Low-Income Families: Evidence from Moving to Opportunity
Katz, Lawrence F.; Kling, Jeffrey Richard; Ludwig, Jens; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We examine long-term neighborhood effects on low-income families using data from the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) randomized housing-mobility experiment, which offered some public-housing families but not others the chance to move to less-disadvantaged neighborhoods. We show that 10-15 years...
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