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The context of community-based interventions presents formidable problems for any evaluation analysis. Group …-randomized studies do possess ideal properties in theory, but in practice, grouprandomization might not be a feasible alternative at all …
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This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different pay and relative performance information policies on employee effort. We explore three information policies: No feedback about relative performance, feedback given halfway through the production period, and continuously updated...
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Previous studies report a wide range of estimates for how female labor supply responds to childcare prices. We shed new light on this question using a reform that raised the prices of public daycare. Parents respond by reducing public daycare and increasing childcare at home. Parents also reduce...
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another and that the composition of income is irrelevant for consumption. We find in a field experiment that even in a simple … change consumption according to the suggestion of the label. A controlled laboratory experiment confirms this result and …
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recent studies analyze the impact of measures of employment promotion for the case of Germany, no comparable study exists on … for the first time in the history of German employment promotion that evaluation should be an integral part of the … – evaluation itself has mistakenly been understood by the legislator as a pure accounting exercise. We discuss this problem from …
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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 …
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Based on the ideas developed in the literature on the evaluation of active labor market policy, this paper provides a … framework for the evaluation of key elements of immigration policy. To this end, the fundamental ingredients of evaluating … evaluation of the effect of immigration policy is a particularly complex task since it requires unusually strong assumptions to …
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Dimensions of cognitive skills are potentially important but often neglected determinants of the central economic outcomes that shape overall well-being over the life course. There exists enormous variation among households in their rates of wealth accumulation, their holdings of financial...
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changes in the early life economic environment on late life cognition. In European countries, about three to four economic …
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This paper summarizes recent evidence on what achievement tests measure; how achievement tests relate to other measures of cognitive ability like IQ and grades; the important skills that achievement tests miss or mismeasure, and how much these skills matter in life. Achievement tests miss, or...
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