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Building Bridges between Structural and Program Evaluation Approaches to Evaluating Policy

Heckman, James J. - 2010

This paper compares the structural approach to economic policy analysis with the program evaluation approach. It offers …

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Accounting for Dropouts in Evaluations of Social Experiments

Heckman, James J.; Smith, Jeffrey A.; Taber, Christopher - 2021

This paper considers the statistical and economic justification for one widely-used method of adjusting data from social experiments to account for dropping-out behavior due to Bloom (1984). We generalize the method to apply to distributions not just means, and present tests of the key...

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Evaluating the Welfare State

Heckman, James J.; Smith, Jeffrey A. - 2021

-used econometric evaluation estimators and relate them to the requirements of a comprehensive cost-benefit analysis. We present … evidence on how the inference from the most commonly used econometric evaluation estimator is modified when the direct costs of …

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