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Does Federally-Funded Job Training Work? Nonexperimental Estimates of WIA Training Impacts Using Longitudinal Data on Workers and Firms

Andersson, Fredrik; Holzer, Harry J.; Lane, Julia; … - 2013

compare WIA participants who do and do not receive training. In addition to the usual impacts on earnings and employment, we … to estimate impacts on the characteristics of the firms at which participants find employment. We find moderate positive … impacts on employment, earnings and desirable firm characteristics for adults, but not for dislocated workers. Our primary …

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Empowerment zones, neighborhood change and owner occupied housing

Krupka, Douglas J.; Noonan, Douglas S. - 2008

This paper examines the effects of a generous, spatially-targeted economic development policy (the federal Empowerment Zone program) on local neighborhood characteristics and on the neighborhood quality of life, taking into account the interactions amongst the policy, changes in neighborhood...

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Parents' incomes and children's outcomes: a quasi-experiment

Akee, Randall K. Q.; Copeland, William; Keeler, Gordon; … - 2008

Identifying the effect of parental incomes on child outcomes is difficult due to the correlation of unobserved ability, education levels and income. Previous research has relied on the use of instrumental variables to identify the effect of a change in household income on the young adult...

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Neighborhood dynamics and the housing price effects of spatially targeted economic development policy

Krupka, Douglas J.; Noonan, Douglas S. - 2009

Neighborhoods are the result of a complicated interplay between residential choice, housing supply and the influences of the larger metropolitan system on its constituent parts. We model this interplay as a system of reduced-form equations in order to examine the effects of a generous spatially...

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Bandwidth selection and the estimation of treatment effects with unbalanced data

Galdo, Jose; Smith, Jeffrey A.; Black, Dan - 2007

This paper addresses the selection of smoothing parameters for estimating the average treatment effect on the treated using matching methods. Because precise estimation of the expected counterfactual is particularly important in regions containing the mass of the treated units, we define and...

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