explain the need for evaluation on the micro- and macroeconomic level, introduce the fundamental evaluation problem and … solutions to it, give an overview of the newer developments in evaluation literature and finally take a look on empirical …

Propensity score matching is widely used in treatment evaluation to estimate average treatment effects. Nevertheless …

This paper reviews the main identification and estimation strategies for microeconomic policy evaluation. Particular … nonparametric matching and weighting estimators of the average treatment effects and their properties are examined. …

Based on administrative data from the federal employment office in Germany, we apply matching techniques to estimate …

propensity score matching estimators. To explain potential differences in effects between the groups, we suggest and apply a … decomposition method based on the matching procedure that allows identification of differences due to observable characteristics and …

-employment probability, and probability of regular education. A non-parametric matching approach based on conditional independence assumption … is applied to estimate the average program effects. Moreover, the results obtained by matching are compared to results …

explain the need for evaluation on the micro- and macroeconomic level, introduce the fundamental evaluation problem and … solutions to it, give an overview of the newer developments in evaluation literature and finally take a look on empirical …

countries. Previous evaluation results show pre-dominantly (very) positive results indicating that these programs are an … effective way to increase employment probabilities and income of participants. Most of the studies are using matching estimators … previous evaluation studies are based on administrative data, information on such variables is not available. This raises the …