Arbeitspapier

Programme Evaluation with Multiple Treatments

This paper reviews the main identification and estimation strategies for microeconomic policy evaluation. Particular emphasis is laid on evaluating policies consisting of multiple programmes, which is of high relevance in practice. For example, active labour market policies may consist of different training programmes, employment programmes and wage subsidies. Similarly, sickness rehabilitation policies often offer different vocational as well as non-vocational rehabilitation measures. First, the main identification strategies (control-forconfounding-variables, difference-in difference, instrumental-variable, and regressiondiscontinuity identification) are discussed in the multiple-programme setting. Thereafter, the different nonparametric matching and weighting estimators of the average treatment effects and their properties are examined.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 542

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General
Estimation: General
Thema
evaluation
matching
treatment effect
unobservables
covariate-adjustment
difference-in-difference
Arbeitsmarktpolitik
Wirtschaftspolitische Wirkungsanalyse
Mikroökonometrie
Schätztheorie
Theorie

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Frölich, Markus
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2002

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Frölich, Markus
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2002

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