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Unobservable, but unimportant? : the influence of personality traits (and other usually unobserved variables) for the estimation of treatment effects ; conference paper

Caliendo, Marco; Mahlstedt, Robert; Mitnik, Oscar A. - 2014 - Preliminary version, this draft: February 28, 2014

A large and highly used number of treatment effects estimators rely on the unconfoundedness assumption ("selection on observables") which is fundamentally non testable. When evaluating the effects of labor market policies, researchers need to observe both variables that affect treatment...

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Programme evaluation with multiple treatments

Frölich, Markus - 2002

nonparametric matching and weighting estimators of the average treatment effects and their properties are examined. …

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Macroeconomic Effects of Short-Term Training Measures on the Matching Process in Western Germany

Hujer, Reinhard - 2007

This paper investigates the macroeconomic effects of short term training measures on the matching processes in West … 2003 to December 2004. The empirical model relies on a dynamic version of a matching function augmented by short term …

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New Evidence on Long-Term Effects of Start-Up Subsidies : Matching Estimates and Their Robustness

Caliendo, Marco - 2019

. Using propensity score matching (PSM) as our main empirical approach, we provide estimates of long-term effects of the post …

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The Effect of Disability on Labour Market Outcomes in Germany : Evidence from Matching

Lechner, Michael; Vazquez-Alvarez, R. - 2021

status on labour market outcomes using matching methods associated with treatment effect techniques for program evaluation …

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Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policies with an Iterative Matching Algorithm. The Case of Long-Term Unemployed Persons in Saxony

Dettmann, Eva; Schultz, Birgit; Wiemers, Juergen - 2007

the Mikrozensus Sachsen. A two step Nearest-Neighbor-Matching is employed to solve the sample selection problem. The first … iterative improvement of an initial assignment. This process is superior to the standard matching algorithms in the sense that …

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Impact Evaluation of Multiple Overlapping Programs using Difference-in-differences with Matching

Nguyen Viet, Cuong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Difference-in-differences with matching is a popular method in impact evaluation. Traditional impact evaluation methods … including difference-in-differences with matching often deal with impact measurement of a single binary program. Imbens (1999 …) and Lechner (2001) extend the matching method to the case of multiple mutually exclusive programs. Frölich (2002 …

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Evaluating the Long-Run Impact of an Innovative Anti-Poverty Program: Evidence Using Household Panel Data

Asadullah, Niaz; Ara, Jinnat - 2016

measures of wellbeing using difference-in-difference (DD) as well as matching methods. We find significant positive long …

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Learning from the Extreme Poor: Participatory Approaches to Fostering Child Health in Madagascar

Blanchard, Caroline; Godinot, Xavier; Laureau, Chantal; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Very poor people are often considered ignorant and even incapable of thinking, because they have had no opportunity to gain skill in expression through education. The experience of contempt and exclusion is deep among the poorest, whether they live in rich or poor countries, and it often...

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Challenges to promoting social inclusion of the extreme poor: Evidence from a large scale experiment in Colombia

Abramovsky, Laura; Attanasio, Orazio; Barron, Kai; … - 2014

We evaluate the large scale pilot of an innovative and major welfare intervention in Colombia, which combines homes visits by trained social workers to households in extreme poverty with preferential access to social programs. We use a randomized control trial and a very rich dataset collected...

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