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Measuring Externalities in Program Evaluation
Janssens, Wendy - 2005
a women’s empowerment programme in rural India on child immunization and school enrolment. The survey covers both …. However, if the programme generates externalities for non-participants such an approach will capture only part of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325173
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Measuring Externalities in Program Evaluation : Spillover Effects of a Women's Empowerment Programme in Rural India
Janssens, Wendy - 2008
a women's empowerment programme in rural India on child immunization and school enrollment. The survey covers both …. However, if the programme generates externalities for non-participants such an approach will capture only part of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014066657
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From local to global : external validity in a fertility natural experiment
Dehejia, Rajeev H.; Pop-Eleches, Christian; Samii, Cyrus - 2015
geography, education, calendar year, and mothers' labor force participation lead to lower extrapolation error. As experimental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309525
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Measuring externalities in program evaluation : spillover effects of a women's empowerment programme in rural India
Janssens, Wendy - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002695492
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Publicizing the results of standardized external tests : does it have an effect on school outcomes?
Anghel, Brindusa; Cabrales, Antonio; Sainz, Jorge; Sanz … - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 4 (2015) 7, pp. 1-20
We study the effect of standardized external tests on students’ academic outcomes. We exploit the fact that only one of the 17 Spanish regions started doing and publishing the results of standardized tests in 2005 and apply a difference-in-difference methodology using outcomes of the PISA...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010533314
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Dealing with imperfect randomization : inference for the Highscope Perry Preschool Program
Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo; Shaikh, Azeem M. - 2023
This paper considers the problem of making inferences about the effects of a program on multiple outcomes when the assignment of treatment status is imperfectly randomized. By imperfect randomization we mean that treatment status is reassigned after an initial randomization on the basis of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014444383
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Compulsory schooling reforms, education and mortality in twentieth century Europe
Gathmann, Christina; Jürges, Hendrik; Reinhold, Steffen - 2012
Education yields substantial non-monetary benefits, but the size of these gains is still debated. Previous studies, for … example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality – ranging from zero to large … compulsory education both in the shorter and longer run. In contrast, compulsory schooling reforms have little or no effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011489910
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Seasonality in smoking behaviour : re-evaluating the effects of the 2005 public smoking ban in Italy
Del Bono, Emilia; Grünberger, Klaus; Vuri, Daniela - 2014
This paper investigates the impact of the public smoking ban which came into effect in Italy on January 2005 on individual smoking behaviour. Current empirical evidence supports the existence of a negative effect of the Italian ban on smoking prevalence and consumption in the general population....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010241303
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Seasonality in smoking behaviour : re-evaluating the effects of the 2005 public smoking ban in Italy
Del Bono, Emilia; Grünberger, Klaus; Vuri, Daniela - 2013
This paper investigates the impact of the public smoking ban which came into effect in Italy on January 2005 on individual smoking behaviour. Current empirical evidence supports the existence of a negative effect of the Italian ban on smoking prevalence and consumption in the general population....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010201685
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Seasonality in smoking behaviour : re-evaluating the effects of the 2005 public smoking ban in Italy
Del Bono, Emilia; Grünberger, Klaus; Vuri, Daniela - 2014
This paper investigates the impact of the public smoking ban which came into effect in Italy on January 2005 on individual smoking behaviour. Current empirical evidence supports the existence of a negative effect of the Italian ban on smoking prevalence and consumption in the general population....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010436572