%0 Report
        %A Sauermann, Jan
%A Stenberg, Anders
        %T Assessing Selection Bias in Non-Experimental Estimates of the Returns to Workplace Training
        %D 2020
        %8 2020 Oct
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 13789
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp13789
        %X We assess selection bias in estimated returns to workplace training by exploiting a field experiment with random assignment of workers to a one-week training program. We compare experimental estimates of this program with non-experimental estimates that are estimated by using a sample of agents who were selected by management not to participate in the experiment. Our results show that non-experimental estimates are biased, yielding returns about twice as large as the causal effect. When controlling for pre-treatment performance or individual fixed effects, only about one tenth of this bias remains and is even further reduced when applying common support restrictions.
        %K selection bias
%K returns to training
%K field experiment