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Peer Effects and Textbooks in Primary Education: Evidence from Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa

Frölich, Markus; Michaelowa, Katharina - 2005

estimation methods from the treatment evaluation literature we separate the direct effect of textbooks from their peer effect …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262631

Nonparametric IV Estimation of Local Average Treatment Effects with Covariates

Frölich, Markus - 2002

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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What is the Value of Knowing the Propensity Score for Estimating Average Treatment Effects?

Frölich, Markus - 2002

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

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262697

Programme Evaluation with Multiple Treatments

Frölich, Markus - 2002

This paper reviews the main identification and estimation strategies for microeconomic policy evaluation. Particular …, active labour market policies may consist of different training programmes, employment programmes and wage subsidies …

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Where to put the kids? Effects of type of non-parental child care on pre-teen skills and risky behavior

Datta Gupta, Nabanita; Simonsen, Marianne - 2011

This paper investigates pre-teenage effects of the choice of type of non-parental child care at age three (preschool relative to more informal family day care). We exploit a Danish panel data child survey merged with administrative records along with a pseudo-experiment that generates variation...

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Coaching, Counseling, Case-Working: Do They Help the Older Unemployed Out of Benefit Receipt and Back into the Labor Market?

Boockmann, Bernhard; Brändle, Tobias - 2015

this paper we present key results from the evaluation of "Perspektive 50plus", a large-scale active labor market program …Job search assistance and intensified counseling have been found to be effective for labor market integration by a … use a combination of different evaluation estimators to check the sensitivity of the results to selection, substitution …

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The effects of pharmacological treatment of ADHD on children's health

Dalsgaard, Søren; Skyt Nielsen, Helena; Simonsen, Marianne - 2012

We are the first to investigate longer-term effects of pharmacological treatment of ADHD on children's health. We rely on a difference-in-differences strategy while exploiting Danish register-based panel data for children born in 1990-1999. We study effects of treatment initiated between ages...

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Where to Put the Kids? Effects of Type of Non-parental Child Care on Pre-teen Skills and Risky Behavior

Datta Gupta, Nabanita; Simonsen, Marianne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216763

Peer Effects and Textbooks in Primary Education: Evidence from Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa

Frölich, Markus; Michaelowa, Katharina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

estimation methods from the treatment evaluation literature we separate the direct effect of textbooks from their peer effect …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822451

What is the Value of Knowing the Propensity Score for Estimating Average Treatment Effects?

Frölich, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

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

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822913