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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. …
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Propensity score matching is widely used in treatment evaluation to estimate average treatment effects. Nevertheless …
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In this paper nonparametric instrumental variable estimation of local average treatment effects (LATE) is extended to incorporate confounding covariates. Estimation of local average treatment effects is appealing since their identification relies on much weaker assumptions than the...
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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 …
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-being during economic crises), documenting the matching process in various parts of individual life (e.g. jobs, partnership …
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. Using propensity score matching (PSM) as our main empirical approach, we provide estimates of long-term effects of the post …
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This paper builds on the Empirical Monte Carlo simulation approach developed by Huber et al. (2013) to study the estimation of Timing-of-Events (ToE) models. We exploit rich Swedish data of unemployed job-seekers with information on participation in a training program to simulate placebo...
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earnings in subsequent employment. Any evaluation needs to take into account that some of those who are not trained at a …
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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 …
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In this paper, we discuss the importance of sample size in the evaluation of minimum wage effects. We first show which …
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