The propensity score defining the probability of completing a given degree of education - to balance covariates - and the Mincer equation is here estimated at various degrees of higher education. The novelty is in implementing propensity score and regression estimators together in a...

Diese Dissertation besteht aus drei eigenständigen Aufsätzen zur semiparametrischen Schätzung von Behandlungseffekten. Behandlungseffekte bezeichnen den kausalen Effekt einer Variablen auf eine bestimmte Zielgröße und die semiparametrischen Schätzungen vermeiden die parametrischen Annahmen...

In the practice of program evaluation, choosing the covariates and the functional form of the propensity score is an important choice for estimating treatment effects. This paper proposes data-driven model selection and model averaging procedures that address this issue for the propensity score...