This paper reviews the main identification and estimation strategies for microeconomic policy evaluation. Particular … nonparametric matching and weighting estimators of the average treatment effects and their properties are examined. …

status on labour market outcomes using matching methods associated with treatment effect techniques for program evaluation …

explain the need for evaluation on the micro- and macroeconomic level, introduce the fundamental evaluation problem and … solutions to it, give an overview of the newer developments in evaluation literature and finally take a look on empirical …

linear matching based on the estimated propensity score to estimate the average treatment effect on the treated of SPST … effects tend to persist almost completely until the end of our evaluation period. The positive effects are stronger in West …

previous jobs. Based on conditional propensity score matching methods we estimate the long-term effects of the programs against …

This paper proposes sequential matching and inverse selection probability weighting to estimate dynamic causal effects …. The sequential matching estimators extend simple, matching estimators based on propensity scores for static causal … analysis that have been frequently applied in the evaluation literature. A Monte Carlo study shows that the suggested …