We identify the causal effect of compulsory military service on conscripts’ subse-quent labour-market outcomes by exploiting the regression-discontinuity design of the military draft in Germany during the 1950s. Unbiased estimates of military ser-vice on lifetime earnings, wages, and...

Arguably, one of the most important developments in the field of applied economics during the last decades has been the emergence of systematic policy evaluation, with its distinct focus on the establishment of causality. By contrast to the natural sciences, the objects of our scientific...

In 2003 the Government of Ghana established a National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to improve health care access for Ghanaians and eventually replace the cash-and-carry system. This study evaluates the NHIS to determine whether it is fulfilling its purpose in the context of the Millennium...

Dem Beispiel anderer Bundesländer folgend hat Nordrhein-Westfalen 2003 ein Mittelstandsgesetz eingeführt. Mit diesem zunächst auf fünf Jahre befristeten gesetzlichen Rahmen sollte das unternehmerische Handeln der mittelständischen Wirtschaft im Land NRW beflügelt werden. Die Bilanz fällt...