privatization in postcommunist Russia. Taking advantage of large regional variation in the size of public administrations, and …

companies in Russia and using the difference-in-difference estimator, the study finds a statistically and economically …

likely to cause variation in performance. This paper looks at Russia in particular. The main idea of this paper is to analize …

This paper reviews some of the most popular policy evaluation methods in empirical microeconomics: social experiments … evaluation literature. A workhorse simulation model of education returns is used throughout the paper to discuss and illustrate …

to discuss these implementation issues and give some guidance to researchers who want to use PSM for evaluation purposes. …

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 …