Caliendo, Marco; Mahlstedt, Robert; Mitnik, Oscar A. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014
Many commonly used treatment effects estimators rely on the unconfoundedness assumption (“selection on observables … access (very) informative administrative data, concerns about the validity of the unconfoundedness assumption remain. The … unemployment in Germany, as well as several usually unobserved characteristics like personality traits, attitudes, expectations …