IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2347

Moving the Goalposts: Addressing Limited Overlap in Estimation of Average Treatment Effects by Changing the Estimand

Richard K. Crump, V. Joseph Hotz, Guido W. Imbens, Oscar A. Mitnik

shorter version published as "Dealing with Limited Overlap in Estimation of Average Treatment Effects" in: Biometrika, 2009, 96 (1), 187-199

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2320

Understanding Instrumental Variables in Models with Essential Heterogeneity

James J. Heckman, Sergio Urzua, Edward Vytlacil

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2006, 88 (3), 389-432

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2314

Swedish Labor Market Training and the Duration of Unemployment

Katarina Richardson, Gerard J. van den Berg

revised version published as 'Duration dependence versus unobserved heterogeneity in treatment effects: Swedish labor market training and the transition rate to employment' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 28 2013, 325-351

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2230

A Reappraisal of the Virtues of Private Sector Employment Programmes

Brian Krogh Graversen, Peter Jensen

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2010, 112 (3), 546-569

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2187

Statistical Treatment Choice: An Application to Active Labour Market Programmes

Markus Frölich

published in: Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2008, 103 (482), 547-558

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2144

Exploiting Regional Treatment Intensity for the Evaluation of Labour Market Policies

Markus Frölich, Michael Lechner

published in: Journal of American Statistical Association, 2010, 105 (491), 1014-1029

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2121

Get Training or Wait? Long-Run Employment Effects of Training Programs for the Unemployed in West Germany

Bernd Fitzenberger, Aderonke Osikominu, Robert Völter

revised version published in Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 2008, 91-92, 321-355

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2091

Nonparametric Tests for Treatment Effect Heterogeneity

Richard K. Crump, V. Joseph Hotz, Guido W. Imbens, Oscar A. Mitnik

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2008, 90 (3), 389-405

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2091

Nonparametric Tests for Treatment Effect Heterogeneity

Richard K. Crump, V. Joseph Hotz, Guido W. Imbens, Oscar A. Mitnik

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2008, 90 (3), 389-405

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2063

Does Child Abuse Cause Crime?

Janet Currie, Erdal Tekin

revised version published as 'Understanding the Cycle: Childhood Maltreatment and Future Crime?' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2012, 47 (2), 509-549

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1837

Childhood Family Structure and Schooling Outcomes: Evidence for Germany

Marco Francesconi, Stephen P. Jenkins, Thomas Siedler

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (3), 1073-1103

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1790

Dynamic Discrete Choice and Dynamic Treatment Effects

James J. Heckman, Salvador Navarro

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2007, 136 (2), 341-396

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1728

What Mean Impacts Miss: Distributional Effects of Welfare Reform Experiments

Marianne P. Bitler, Jonah B. Gelbach, Hilary W. Hoynes

published in: American Economic Review, 2006, 96 (4), 988–1012.