This paper reviews a range of the most popular policy evaluation methods in empirical microeconomics: social … drawing on the empirical evidence from the education and labor market policy evaluation literature. We also develop an … education evaluation model which we use to carry through the discussion of each alternative approach. A full set of STATA …

This paper reviews some of the most popular policy evaluation methods in empirical microeconomics: social experiments … evaluation literature. A workhorse simulation model of education returns is used throughout the paper to discuss and illustrate … estimation and simulation results. -- Evaluation methods …

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 …