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. …

Propensity score matching is widely used in treatment evaluation to estimate average treatment effects. Nevertheless …

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 …

-being during economic crises), documenting the matching process in various parts of individual life (e.g. jobs, partnership …

. Using propensity score matching (PSM) as our main empirical approach, we provide estimates of long-term effects of the post …

earnings in subsequent employment. Any evaluation needs to take into account that some of those who are not trained at a …

A relevant question for the organization of large scale research assessments is whether bibliometric evaluation and …, that less costly bibliometric evaluation might - at least partly - replace informed peer review, or that bibliometric … evaluation could reliably monitor research in between assessment exercises. We draw on our experience of evaluating Italian …

In this paper, we discuss the importance of sample size in the evaluation of minimum wage effects. We first show which …