Alternative approaches to evaluation in empirical microeconomics

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Four alternative but related approaches to empirical evaluation of policy interventions are studied: social experiments, natural experiments, matching methods, and instrumental variables. In each case the necessary assumptions and the data requirements are considered for estimation of a number of key parameters of interest. These key parameters include the average treatment effect, the treatment of the treated and the local average treatment effect. Some issues of implementation and interpretation are discussed drawing on the labour market programme evaluation literature.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: cemmap working paper ; No. CWP10/02

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure ; Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search ; Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models
• Subject: Evaluation methods , matching , instrumental variables , social experiments , natural experiments ; Mikroökonometrie ; Test ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Wirkungsanalyse ; Bewertung ; Theorie

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Blundell, Richard W. ; Dias, Monica Costa
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap)
• (where): London
• (when): 2002

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.1920/wp.cem.2002.1002
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/79305
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET