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IZA Discussion Paper No. 16675
Dealing With Imperfect Randomization: Inference for the Highscope Perry Preschool Program
James J. Heckman, Rodrigo Pinto, Azeem M. Shaikh
published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2024, 243 (1-2), 105683
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16370
The Dynastic Benefits of Early Childhood Education: Participant Benefits and Family Spillovers
Frederik H. Bennhoff, Jorge Luis García, Duncan Ermini Leaf
published in: Human Capital, 2024, 18 (1), 44-73.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15427
Identifying Program Benefits When Participation Is Misreported
Denni Tommasi, Lina Zhang
published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2024, 39 (6), 1123-1148
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15414
Mean Convergence, Combinatorics, and Grade-Point Averages
Glen R. Waddell, Robert McDonough
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15358
Heterogeneous Returns to Active Labour Market Programs for Indigenous Populations
Donn. L. Feir, Kelly Foley, Maggie E. C. Jones
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15321
What Can We Learn from Student Performance Measures? Identifying Treatment in the Presence of Curves and Letter Grades
Glen R. Waddell, Jenni Putz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15151
Treatment Effect Heterogeneity
Jeffrey A. Smith
published in: Evaluation Review, 2022, 46 (5), 652 - 677
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15104
Fostering Soft Skills in Active Labor Market Programs: Evidence from a Large-Scale RCT
Analia Schlosser, Yannay Shanan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14525
The Dynastic Benefits of Early Childhood Education
Jorge Luis García, Frederik H. Bennhoff, Duncan Ermini Leaf, James J. Heckman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14513
Keeping Refugee Children in School and Out of Work: Evidence from the World's Largest Humanitarian Cash Transfer Program
Aysun Hızıroğlu Aygün, Murat Güray Kirdar, Murat Koyuncu, Quentin Stoeffler
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2024, 168, 103266.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14428
Identifying Marginal Treatment Effects in the Presence of Sample Selection
Otávio Bartalotti, Désiré Kédagni, Vítor Augusto Possebom
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13893
Propensity Score Weighting with Mismeasured Covariates: An Application to Two Financial Literacy Interventions
Hao Dong, Daniel L. Millimet
published in: Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 2020, 13, 290
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13772
Long-Term Effects of Individual Placement and Support Services for Disability Benefits Recipients with Severe Mental Illnesses
Marloes De Graaf-Zijl, Marcel Spijkerman, Wim Zwinkels
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13584
Are Program Participants Good Evaluators?
Jeffrey A. Smith, Alexander Whalley, Nathaniel T. Wilcox
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13559
Short Moves and Long Stays: Homeless Family Responses to Exogenous Shelter Assignments in New York City
Michael T. Cassidy
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13558
A Closer Look: Proximity Boosts Homeless Student Performance in New York City
Michael T. Cassidy
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13430
Bounding Program Benefits When Participation Is Misreported
Denni Tommasi, Lina Zhang
published in: Journal of Econometrics 2024, 238, (1), 105556
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13324
Do Reemployment Programs for the Unemployed Work for Youth? Evidence from the Great Recession in the United States
Marios Michaelides, Peter R. Mueser, Jeffrey A. Smith
published in: Economic Inquiry, 2021, 59 (1), 162-185
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13064
Early Childhood Education and Life-cycle Health
Jorge Luis García, James J. Heckman
published in: Health Economics, 2021, 30 (S1), 119-141
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12839
Understanding Program Complementarities: Estimating the Dynamic Effects of a Training Program with Multiple Alternatives
Antonio Dalla-Zuanna, Kai Liu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12470
Long-Run Effects of Dynamically Assigned Treatments: A New Methodology and an Evaluation of Training Effects on Earnings
Gerard J. van den Berg, Johan Vikström
published in: Econometrica, 2022, 90 (3), 1337-1354
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11962
The Labeling Effect of a Child Benefits System: Evidence from Russia 1994-2015
Louise Grogan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11862
Mostly Harmless Simulations? On the Internal Validity of Empirical Monte Carlo Studies
Arun Advani, Toru Kitagawa, Tymon Sloczynski
published as 'Mostly Harmless Simulations? Using Monte Carlo Studies for Estimator Selection' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2019, 34(6), 893–910
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9511
Going Beyond LATE: Bounding Average Treatment Effects of Job Corps Training
Xuan Chen, Carlos A. Flores, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2018, 63 (4), 1050-1099
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9236
What Works? A Meta Analysis of Recent Active Labor Market Program Evaluations
David Card, Jochen Kluve, Andrea Weber
revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2018, 16 (3), 894 - 931
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9184
Worker-level and Firm-level Effects of a Wage Subsidy Program for Highly Educated Labor: Evidence from Denmark
Ulrich Kaiser, Johan Moritz Kuhn
published in: Research Policy, 2016, 45 (9), 1939-1943
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9131
"A Flop or a Success?" An Evaluation of the Welfare Impacts of the 6-3-3-4 Education System in Nigeria
Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8990
The Pecuniary and Non-Pecuniary Returns to Voucher-Financed Training
Katja Görlitz, Marcus Tamm
substantially revised version published as 'The returns to voucher-financed training on wages, employment and job tasks' in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 52, 51 - 62
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8969
Infant Health and Longevity: Evidence from a Historical Trial in Sweden
Sonia R. Bhalotra, Martin Karlsson, Therese Nilsson
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2017, 15 (1), 1101 - 1157
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8944
Pooling Multiple Case Studies Using Synthetic Controls: An Application to Minimum Wage Policies
Arindrajit Dube, Ben Zipperer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8812
Pension Reform and Labor Supply: Flexibility vs. Prescription
Erik Hernaes, Simen Markussen, John Piggott, Knut Røed
revised version published as 'Pension Reform and Labor Supply' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2016, 142, 39–55
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8721
Protecting Child Nutritional Status in the Aftermath of a Financial Crisis: Evidence from Indonesia
John T. Giles, Elan Satriawan
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2015, 114, 97 -106
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8621
Teacher Pay and Student Performance: Evidence from the Gambian Hardship Allowance
Todd Pugatch, Elizabeth Schroeder
published in: Journal of Development Effectiveness, 2018, 10(2): 249-276.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8455
Testing for Selection Bias
Joonhwi Joo, Robert J. LaLonde
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8245
Leaving Poverty Behind? The Effects of Generous Income Support Paired with Activation
Simen Markussen, Knut Røed
published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2016, 8 (1), 180–211
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8118
The Early History of Program Evaluation and the U.S. Department of Labor
Orley Ashenfelter
published in: ILR Review, 2014, 63 (3S), 574 - 577
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7892
The Impacts of Vocational Rehabilitation
Simen Markussen, Knut Røed
published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 31, 1-13.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7873
Making Work Pay for the Indebted: The Effect of Debt Services on the Exit Rates of Unemployed Individuals
Pierre Koning
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7723
Incentives for Teacher Relocation: Evidence from the Gambian Hardship Allowance
Todd Pugatch, Elizabeth Schroeder
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2014, 41, 120-136
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7621
Does Federally-Funded Job Training Work? Nonexperimental Estimates of WIA Training Impacts Using Longitudinal Data on Workers and Firms
Fredrik W. Andersson, Harry J. Holzer, Julia Lane, David Rosenblum, Jeffrey A. Smith
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7614
Do Firms Benefit from Active Labour Market Policies?
Michael Lechner, Conny Wunsch, Patrycja Scioch
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7593
Multidimensional Targeting and Evaluation: A General Framework with an Application to a Poverty Program in Bangladesh
Virginia Robano, Stephen C. Smith
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7544
Do SBA Loans Create Jobs?
J. David Brown, John S. Earle
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7079
Entrepreneurship Training and Self-Employment among University Graduates: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Tunisia
Patrick Premand, Stefanie Brodmann, Rita K. Almeida, Rebekka Grun, Mahdi Barouni
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6670
Temporary Work as an Active Labor Market Policy: Evaluating an Innovative Program for Disadvantaged Youths
Christoph Ehlert, Jochen Kluve, Sandra Schaffner
published in: Economics Bulletin, 2012, 32 (2), 765-773
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6551
Family Planning and Women's and Children's Health: Long Term Consequences of an Outreach Program in Matlab, Bangladesh
Shareen Joshi, T. Paul Schultz
published in: Demography, 2013, 50 (1), 149-180
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6369
The Evaluation of Immigration Policies
Ulf Rinne
published in: Amelie F. Constant and Klaus F. Zimmermann (eds.), International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar 2013, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, USA, Chapter 28, 530-551
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6341
Estimating the Impacts of Bolivia's Protected Areas on Poverty
Gustavo J. Canavire Bacarreza, Merlin M. Hanauer
revised version published in: World Development, 2013, 41, 265–285
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6222
Fighting Youth Unemployment: The Effects of Active Labor Market Policies
Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn, Ricarda Schmidl
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5625
Inference with Imperfect Randomization: The Case of the Perry Preschool Program
James J. Heckman, Rodrigo Pinto, Azeem M. Shaikh, Adam Yavitz
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