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Econometric methods for causal evaluation of education policies and practices : a non-technical guide
Schlotter, Martin; Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009
Education policy-makers and practitioners want to know which policies and practices can best achieve their goals. But … ; education ; policy evaluation ; non-technical guide …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003922964
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Much ado about nothing? : school curriculum reforms and students' educational trajectories
Strazzeri, Maurizio; Oggenfuss, Chantal; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022
education. The effect of foreign language classes on the educational trajectory of low-track male students is particularly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013362380
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Priority to unemployed immigrants : a Causal machine learning evaluation of training in Belgium
Cockx, Bart; Lechner, Michael; Bollens, Joost - 2020
Based on administrative data of unemployed in Belgium, we estimate the labour market effects of three training programmes at various aggregation levels using Modified Causal Forests, a causal machine learning estimator. While all programmes have positive effects after the lock-in period, we find...
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The econometrics and economics of the employment effects of minimum wages : getting from known unknowns to known knowns
Neumark, David - 2018
I discuss the econometrics and the economics of past research on the effects of minimum wages on employment in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011939807
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Head start and the distribution of long term education and labor market outcomes
Haan, Monique de; Leuven, Edwin - 2016
In this paper we investigate the effect of Head Start on long term education and labor market outcomes using data from … dominance assumptions and (3) we consider education and labor market outcomes observed for individuals in their early 30s. The … results show that Head Start has a statistically significant positive effect on years of education, in particular for women …
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Are expectations alone enough? : estimating the effect of mandatory college-prep curriculum in Michigan
Jacob, Brian Aaron; Dynarski, Susan M.; Frank, Kenneth; … - 2016
This paper examines the impacts of the Michigan Merit Curriculum (MMC), a statewide college-preparatory curriculum that applies to the high school graduating class of 2008 and later. We use a student, longitudinal database for all public school students in Michigan for the main analyses, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451088
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Quantifying the macroeconomic impact of Covid-19-related school closures through the human capital channel
De la Maisonneuve, Christine; Égert, Balázs; Turner, David - 2023
education (not considered here) would inflate them. Policies aimed at improving the quality of education and adult training will …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014252528
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From late to MTE : alternative methods for the evaluation of policy interventions
Cornelißen, Thomas; Dustmann, Christian; Raute, Anna; … - 2016
This paper provides an introduction into the estimation of Marginal Treatment Effects (MTE). Compared to the existing surveys on the subject, our paper is less technical and speaks to the applied economist with a solid basic understanding of econometric techniques who would like to use MTE...
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Identifying the effects of place-based policies : causal evidence from German
Dettmann, Eva; Brachert, Matthias; Titze, Mirko - 2016
The German government provides discretionary investment grants to structurally weak regions to reduce regional disparities. We use a regression discontinuity design that exploits an exogenous discrete jump in the probability of receiving investment grants, to identify the causal effects of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011475960
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The global economic impact of politicians : evidence from an international survey RCT
Boumans, Dorine; Gründler, Klaus; Potrafke, Niklas; … - 2021
We use the US presidential election on 3 November 2020 to examine how the US president influences economic expectations of international experts. We design a large-scale RCT among 843 experts working in 107 countries, asking about their expectations regarding GDP growth, unemployment, inflation,...
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