Michael Lechner

Research Fellow

University of St. Gallen

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Michael Lechner studied from 1985 to 1989 Economics at the University of Heidelberg and the London School of Economics and Political Science.1989 he got his Degree in Economics at the University of Heidelberg. From 1990 until 1994 he worked as Research Assistant at the Department of Economics, University of Mannheim (Prof. Heinz König). In 1994 he recieved his Ph.D. in Economics and Econometrics at the University of Mannheim. From 1994 to1995 he was a John-F.-Kennedy-Fellow at the Center for European Studies of Harvard University, Cambridge, USA. In 1995 he became an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Mannheim and stayed there until 1998. In 1996 he received his post-doctoral habilitation in Economics and Econometrics (University of Mannheim) and 1998 he became a full Professor of Econometrics at the University of St. Gallen and Director of SIAW and is currently director of the Swiss Institute for Empirical Economic Research (SEW).

Among others he has published in Journal of Econometrics, The Journal of Human Resources, Annales d' Economie et de Statistique, Journal of Business Economic Statistics and The Econometrics Journal.

Michael Lechner joined IZA as a Research Fellow in October 1999.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15699
The Heterogeneous Response of Real Estate Asset Prices to a Global Shock
Sandro Heiniger, Winfried Koeniger, Michael Lechner
revised version published online as 'The heterogeneous response of real estate prices during the Covid-19 pandemic' in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society, 27 August 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14486
Active Labour Market Policies for the Long-Term Unemployed: New Evidence from Causal Machine Learning
Daniel Goller, Tamara Harrer, Michael Lechner, Joachim Wolff
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14259
The Effect of Sport in Online Dating: Evidence from Causal Machine Learning
Daniel Boller, Michael Lechner, Gabriel Okasa
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12875
Priority to Unemployed Immigrants? A Causal Machine Learning Evaluation of Training in Belgium
Bart Cockx, Michael Lechner, Joost Bollens
published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 80, 102306
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12526
Does the Estimation of the Propensity Score by Machine Learning Improve Matching Estimation? The Case of Germany's Programmes for Long Term Unemployed
Daniel Goller, Michael Lechner, Andreas Moczall, Joachim Wolff
published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101855
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12040
Modified Causal Forests for Estimating Heterogeneous Causal Effects
Michael Lechner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12039
Machine Learning Estimation of Heterogeneous Causal Effects: Empirical Monte Carlo Evidence
Michael C. Knaus, Michael Lechner, Anthony Strittmatter
published in: Econometrics Journal, 2021, 24 (1), 134-161
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11268
For Better or Worse? The Effects of Physical Education on Child Development
Michael C. Knaus, Michael Lechner, Anne K. Reimers
published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 67, 1010904
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10961
Heterogeneous Employment Effects of Job Search Programmes: A Machine Learning Approach
Michael C. Knaus, Michael Lechner, Anthony Strittmatter
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (2), 597-636
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10532
Practical Procedures to Deal with Common Support Problems in Matching Estimation
Michael Lechner, Anthony Strittmatter
published in: Econometric Reviews, 2019, 38 (2), 193-207
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9706
The Finite Sample Performance of Inference Methods for Propensity Score Matching and Weighting Estimators
Hugo Bodory, Lorenzo Camponovo, Martin Huber, Michael Lechner
published in: Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2020, 38 (1), 183-200
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9490
Difference?in?Difference Estimation by FE and OLS when there is Panel Non?Response
Michael Lechner, Núria Rodríguez-Planas, Daniel Fernández-Kranz
published in: Journal of Applied Statistics, 2016, 43 (11), 2044-2052
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9428
Endogeneity and Non-Response Bias in Treatment Evaluation: Nonparametric Identification of Causal Effects by Instruments
Hans Fricke, Markus Frölich, Martin Huber, Michael Lechner
published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2020, 35 (5), 481-504
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9138
Direct and Indirect Effects of Training Vouchers for the Unemployed
Martin Huber, Michael Lechner, Anthony Strittmatter
published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (Statistics in Society), 2018, 181 (3), 441-463 (
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8987
Mozart or Pelé? The Effects of Teenagers' Participation in Music and Sports
Charlotte Cabane, Adrian Hille, Michael Lechner
published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 41, 90-103
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8715
Financial Work Incentives for Disability Benefit Recipients: Lessons from a Randomised Field Experiment
Monika Bütler, Eva Deuchert, Michael Lechner, Stefan Staubli, Petra Thiemann
revised version published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2015, 4:18
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8297
Workplace Health Promotion and Labour Market Performance of Employees
Martin Huber, Michael Lechner, Conny Wunsch
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2015,43, 170-189
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7931
Labor Market Effects of Sports and Exercise: Evidence from Canadian Panel Data
Michael Lechner, Nazmi Sari
published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 35, 1 - 15
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7768
After-School Care and Parents' Labor Supply
Christina Felfe, Michael Lechner, Petra Thiemann
revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 42, 62-75
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7690
Heterogeneous Sports Participation and Labour Market Outcomes in England
Michael Lechner, Paul Downward
published in: Applied Economics, 2016, 49 (4), 335–348.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7614
Do Firms Benefit from Active Labour Market Policies?
Michael Lechner, Conny Wunsch, Patrycja Scioch
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7513
The Effect of Firms' Partial Retirement Policies on the Labour Market Outcomes of Their Employees
Martin Huber, Michael Lechner, Conny Wunsch
published as 'The Effect of Firms' Phased Retirement Policies on the Labour Market Outcomes of Their Employees' in: ILR Review, 2016, 69(5), 1216-1248
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6105
Sports and Child Development
Christina Felfe, Michael Lechner, Andreas Steinmayr
published in: PLoS One, 2016, 11(5), e0151729
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5553
Sensitivity of Matching-Based Program Evaluations to the Availability of Control Variables
Michael Lechner, Conny Wunsch
published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 21, 111-121
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5268
How to Control for Many Covariates? Reliable Estimators Based on the Propensity Score
Martin Huber, Michael Lechner, Conny Wunsch
published as 'The Performance of Estimators Based on the Propensity Score' in: Journal of Econometrics, 2013, 175 (1), 1-21
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4370
Does Leaving Welfare Improve Health? Evidence for Germany
Martin Huber, Michael Lechner, Conny Wunsch
published in: Health Economics, 2011, 20 (4), 484-504
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4090
Do German Welfare-to-Work Programmes Reduce Welfare and Increase Work?
Martin Huber, Michael Lechner, Conny Wunsch, Thomas Walter
published as 'Do German Welfare-to-Work Programmes Reduce Welfare Dependency and Increase Employment?' in: German Economic Review, 2011, 12 (2), 182-204
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3559
Long-Run Labour Market Effects of Individual Sports Activities
Michael Lechner
published as 'Long-run labour market and health effects of individual sports activities' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2009, 28 (4), 839 - 854
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3437
A Caseworker Like Me: Does the Similarity between Unemployed and Caseworker Increase Job Placements?
Stefanie Behncke, Markus Frölich, Michael Lechner
published in: Economic Journal, 2010, 120(549), 1430-1459
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3149
Unemployed and Their Caseworkers: Should They Be Friends or Foes?
Stefanie Behncke, Markus Frölich, Michael Lechner
published in: Journal of Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2010, 173 (1), 67-92
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3092
Does the Order and Timing of Active Labor Market Programs Matter?
Michael Lechner, Stephan Wiehler
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3085
Targeting Labour Market Programmes: Results from a Randomized Experiment
Stefanie Behncke, Markus Frölich, Michael Lechner
published in: Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Volkswirtschaft und Statistik / Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 145 (3), 221-268
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3005
Public Employment Services and Employers: How Important Are Networks with Firms?
Stefanie Behncke, Markus Frölich, Michael Lechner
published in: Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft, 2008, 1, 151-178
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2926
Earnings Effects of Training Programs
Michael Lechner, Blaise Melly
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2800
What Did All the Money Do? On the General Ineffectiveness of Recent West German Labour Market Programmes
Conny Wunsch, Michael Lechner
published in: Kyklos, 2008, 61 (1), 134-174
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2740
Kids or Courses? Gender Differences in the Effects of Active Labor Market Policies
Michael Lechner, Stephan Wiehler
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 24 (3), 783-812
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2363
Active Labour Market Policy in East Germany: Waiting for the Economy to Take Off
Michael Lechner, Conny Wunsch
published in: Economics of Transition, 2009, 17 (4), 661-702
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2355
Are Training Programs More Effective When Unemployment Is High?
Michael Lechner, Conny Wunsch
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2009, 27 (4), 653-692
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. 1684
The Curse and Blessing of Training the Unemployed in a Changing Economy: The Case of East Germany After Unification
Michael Lechner, Ruth Miquel, Conny Wunsch
published in: German Economic Review, 2007, 8 (4), 468-509
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1443
Long-Run Effects of Public Sector Sponsored Training in West Germany
Michael Lechner, Ruth Miquel, Conny Wunsch
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9 (4), 742-784
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1095
Regional Treatment Intensity as an Instrument for the Evaluation of Labour Market Policies
Markus Frölich, Michael Lechner
substantially revised version published as IZA DP 2144
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1042
Sequential Matching Estimation of Dynamic Causal Models
Michael Lechner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 967
The Effect of Disability on Labour Market Outcomes in Germany: Evidence from Matching
Michael Lechner, Rosalia Vazquez-Alvarez
IZA Discussion Paper No. 728
What is the Value Added by Caseworkers?
Michael Lechner, Jeffrey A. Smith
published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14 (2), 135-151
IZA Discussion Paper No. 606
Does Subsidised Temporary Employment Get the Unemployed Back to Work? An Econometric Analysis of Two Different Schemes
Michael Gerfin, Michael Lechner, Heidi Steiger
published in: Labour Economics, 2005, 12 (6), 807-835
IZA Discussion Paper No. 154
Microeconometric Evaluation of the Active Labour Market Policy in Switzerland
Michael Gerfin, Michael Lechner
published in: Economic Journal, 2002, 112 (482), 854-893
IZA Discussion Paper No. 94
An Evaluation of Public Employment Programmes in the East German State of Sachsen-Anhalt
Martin Eichler, Michael Lechner
published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 9 (2), 143-186
IZA Discussion Paper No. 93
An Evaluation of Public-Sector-Sponsored Continuous Vocational Training Programs in East Germany
Michael Lechner
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2000, 35 (2), 347-375
IZA Discussion Paper No. 91
Identification and Estimation of Causal Effects of Multiple Treatments Under the Conditional Independence Assumption
Michael Lechner
published in: M. Lechner, F. Pfeiffer (eds.), Econometric Evaluation of Labour Market Policies, Heidelberg: Physica, 2001, 43-58
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Sports, exercise, and labor market outcomes
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