. Evaluation studies of such programmes commonly rely on the conditional independence assumption (CIA), allowing a causal … success, these variables were neglected in evaluation studies so far due to data limitations. In this paper, we evaluate a new … start-up subsidy for unemployed individuals in Germany using propensity score matching under the CIA. Having access to rich …

. Evaluation studies of such programmes commonly rely on the conditional independence assumption (CIA), allowing a causal … success, these variables were neglected in evaluation studies so far due to data limitations. In this paper, we evaluate a new … start-up subsidy for unemployed individuals in Germany using propensity score matching under the CIA. Having access to rich …

Recent microeconometric evaluation studies have shown that start-up subsidies for unemployed individuals are an … administrative and survey data and observe participants in two distinct start-up programs in Germany for five years after start-up as …

countries. Previous evaluation results show pre-dominantly (very) positive results indicating that these programs are an … previous evaluation studies are based on administrative data, information on such variables is not available. This raises the … neglecting personality traits in the program evaluation leads to slight over-estimation of the average treatment effects on the …