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Are Program Participants Good Evaluators?
How well do program participants assess program performance ex-post? In this paper we compare participant evaluations based on survey responses to econometric impact estimates obtained using data from the experimental evaluation of the U.S. Job Training Partnership Act. We have two main findings: First, the participant evaluations are unrelated to the econometric impact estimates. Second, the participant evaluations do covary with impact proxies such as service intensity, outcome levels, and before-after outcome differences. Our results suggest that program participants behave as 'lay scientists' who seek to estimate the impact of the program but face cognitive challenges in doing so.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 13584
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Education: Government Policy
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Survey Methods; Sampling Methods
- Subject
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program evaluation
participant evaluation
surveys
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Smith, Jeffrey A.
Whalley, Alexander
Wilcox, Nathaniel T.
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
- (where)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2020
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Smith, Jeffrey A.
- Whalley, Alexander
- Wilcox, Nathaniel T.
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2020
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