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The Effects of Welfare-to-Work Program Activities on Labor Market Outcomes
Dyke, Andrew; Heinrich, Carolyn J.; Mueser, Peter R.; … - 2005
Studies examining the effectiveness of welfare-to-work programs present findings that are mixed and sometimes at odds, in part due to research design, data, and methodological limitations of the studies. We aim to substantially improve on past approaches to estimate program effectiveness by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262632
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The Performance of Performance Standards
Heckman, James Joseph; Heinrich, Carolyn J.; Smith, … - 2002
This paper examines the performance of the JTPA performance system, a widely emulated model for inducing efficiency in … government organizations. We present a model of how performance incentives may distort bureaucratic decisions. We define cream … skimming within the model. Two major empirical findings are (a) that the short run measures used to monitor performance are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276751
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278481
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500313
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287616
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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
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216763
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The Effects of Welfare-to-Work Program Activities on Labor Market Outcomes
Dyke, Andrew; Heinrich, Carolyn J.; Mueser, Peter R.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Studies examining the effectiveness of welfare-to-work programs present findings that are mixed and sometimes at odds, in part due to research design, data, and methodological limitations of the studies. We aim to substantially improve on past approaches to estimate program effectiveness by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822848
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The Effects of Pharmacological Treatment of ADHD on Children's Health
Dalsgaard, Søren; Nielsen, Helena Skyt; Simonsen, Marianne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010775590
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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 - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011163468