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 …

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 …

In the practice of program evaluation, choosing the covariates and the functional form of the propensity score is an … model averaging as a statistical decision problem in a limit experiment, and derive an averaging scheme that is Bayes …

A large part of the recent literature on program evaluation has focused on estimation of the average effect of the …

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 …

Preface -- 1 An Introduction to the Econometrics of Program Evaluation -- 2 Methods Based on Selection on Observables … in evidence-based program evaluation for the social sciences. The author presents a comprehensive toolbox for designing … rigorous and effective ex-post program evaluation using the statistical software package Stata. For each method, a statistical …

Chapter 1. An Introduction to the Econometrics of Program Evaluation -- Chapter 2. Methods Based on Selection on … in evidence-based program evaluation for the social sciences. The author presents a comprehensive toolbox for designing … rigorous and effective ex-post program evaluation using the statistical software package Stata. For each method, a statistical …