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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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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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Sind ARGEn wirklich besser? Anmerkungen zur Evaluation der Betreuungsorganisation im Bereich der Grundsicherung
Schneider, Hilmar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Mit der Einführung von Arbeitslosengeld II wurde auch die behördliche Zuständigkeit für die Grundsicherung einer grundlegenden Reorganisation unterzogen. Während in der überwiegenden Mehrheit der Kommunen in Form der sogenannten Arbeitsgemeinschaften eine Mischverwaltung aus Bundesagentur...
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Indirect Effects of an Aid Program: The Case of Progresa and Consumption
Angelucci, Manuela; Giorgi, Giacomo De - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Aid programs in developing countries are likely to affect all households living in the treated areas, both eligible and non-eligible ones. Studies that focus on the treatment effect on the treated may fail to capture important spillover effects. We exploit the unique design of an aid program's...
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Building in an Evaluation Component for Active Labor Market Programs: A Practitioner's Guide
Card, David; Ibarrarán, Pablo; Villa, Juan Miguel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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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Institutional Requirements for Effective Imposition of Fines
Piehl, Anne Morrison - 2010
A long theoretical literature in economics addresses the heavy reliance of the U.S. criminal justice system on very expensive forms of punishment - prison - when cheaper alternatives - such as fines and other sanctions - are available. This paper analyzes the role of fines as a criminal sanction...
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Public Safety through Private Action : An economic assessment of BIDs, locks, and citizen cooperation
Cook, Philip J. - 2010
One creative method to harness private action to cost-effective crime control is the creation of business improvement … analysis of crime and crime prevention policy. But the leading scholarly commentaries on the crime drop during the 1990s have … sort have the potential to both reduce crime rates and reduce arrests and imprisonment. Well-designed regulations and …
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