caseworker and unemployed, does not lead to detectable effects on employment. These results, obtained by statistical matching …

and social security records. We apply a matching estimator adapted for the case of multiple programmes. We find …

Matching has become a popular approach to estimate average treatment effects. It is based on the conditional … matching estimators are not robust. We address this problem with the bounding approach proposed by Rosenbaum (2002), where … to undermine the implications of the matching analysis. …

of various causal effects. Therefore, a comparable reduction of the dimension of the estimation problem is achieved and … the approach retains its basic simplicity. The paper also outlines a matching estimator potentially suitable in that …

Matching estimators are widely used in statistical data analysis. However, the distribution of matching estimators has … matching estimators. This representation allows the use of martingale limit theorems to derive the asymptotic distribution of … matching estimators. As an illustration of the applicability of the theory, we derive the asymptotic distribution of a matching …

unchanged at 65. Using detailed matched employer-employee panel data and difference-in-differences matching methods, we analyse …

within the market, averaged over the full population, we develop an identification and estimation method in two steps. The …