Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 117
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371174
Cover Image
Spillovers from Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: Bolsa Família and Crime in Urban Brazil
Chioda, Laura; Mello, João M. P. de; Soares, Rodrigo R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper investigates the impact of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs on crime. Making use of a unique dataset … combining detailed school characteristics with time and geo-referenced crime information from the city of São Paulo, Brazil, we … estimate the contemporaneous effect of the Bolsa Família program on crime. We address the endogeneity of CCT coverage by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652098
Cover Image
Thieves, Thugs, and Neighborhood Poverty
Bjerk, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper develops a model of crime analyzing how such behavior is associated with individual and neighborhood poverty … across crime types. A key implication is that greater economic segregation in a city should have no effect or a negative … effect on property crime, but a positive effect on violent crime. Using IV methods, I show this implication to be consistent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008517971
Cover Image
Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed: Long-Term Evidence and Effect Heterogeneity
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Turning unemployment into self-employment has become an increasingly important part of active labor market policies (ALMP) in many OECD countries. Germany is a good example where the spending on start-up subsidies for the unemployed accounted for nearly 17% of the total spending on ALMP in 2004....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008592864
Cover Image
The Threat of Monitoring Job Search: A Discontinuity Design
Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Since July 2004 the job search effort of long-term unemployed benefit claimants is monitored in Belgium. We exploit the discontinuity in the treatment assignment at the age of 30 to evaluate the effect of a notification sent at least 8 months before job search is verified. The threat of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008742953
Cover Image
A New Cost-Benefit and Rate of Return Analysis for the Perry Preschool Program: A Summary
Heckman, James J.; Moon, Seong Hyeok; Pinto, Rodrigo; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper summarizes our recent work on the rate of return and cost-benefit ratio of an influential early childhood …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466009
Cover Image
From Giving Birth to Paid Labor: The Effects of Adult Education for Prime-Aged Mothers
Bergemann, Annette; den Berg, Gerard J. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
virtually no cost. We focus on low-skilled women who have recently given birth. We take account of program accessibility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762130
Cover Image
Déjà Vu? Short-Term Training in Germany 1980–1992 and 2000–2003
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Orlyanskaya, Olga; Osikominu, Aderonke - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Short-term training has recently become the largest active labor market program in Germany regarding the number of participants. Little is known on the effectiveness of different types of short-term training and on their long-run effects. This paper estimates the effects of short-term training...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703704
Cover Image
Start-Up Subsidies in East Germany: Finally, a Policy that Works?
Caliendo, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
The German government has spent between 7bn and 11bn Euro per year on active labor market policies (ALMP) in East Germany in the last decade. The effectiveness of the most important programs (in terms of participants and spending) such as job-creation schemes and vocational training has been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822210
Cover Image
The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurship Competencies and Intentions: An Evaluation of the Junior Achievement Student Mini-Company Program
Oosterbeek, Hessel; van Praag, Mirjam; IJsselstein, Auke - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper analyzes the impact of a leading entrepreneurship education program on college students’ entrepreneurship competencies and intentions using an instrumental variables approach in a difference-in-differences framework. We exploit that the program was offered to students at one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822502