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 …

Most evaluation studies of active labour market policies (ALMP) focus on the microeconometric evaluation approach using … a first step to a complete evaluation which has to be followed by an analysis on the macroeconomic level. As a starting …

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

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

This paper reviews the main identification and estimation strategies for microeconomic policy evaluation. Particular …

focus on microeconometric evaluation which has to solve the fundamental evaluation problem and overcome the possible … occurrence of selection bias. When using non-experimental data, different evaluation approaches can be thought of. The aim of … major topic in evaluation research in recent years, we will also assess the ability of each estimator to deal with it …

This paper contributes to the literature on macroeconometric evaluation of active labour market policies (ALMP) by …