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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. 11688

Who Benefits from Universal Child Care? Estimating Marginal Returns to Early Child Care Attendance

Thomas Cornelissen, Christian Dustmann, Anna Raute, Uta Schönberg

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 126 (6), 2356–2409

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11651

Public R&D Support and Firms' Performance: A Panel Data Study

Øivind Anti Nilsen, Arvid Raknerud, Diana-Cristina Iancu

published as 'Public R&D support and firm performance: A multivariate dose-response analysis' in: Research Policy, 2020, 49 (7), 104067.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11648

Was Higher Education a Major Channel through which the US Became an Economic Superpower in the 20th Century?

Adam Cook, Isaac Ehrlich

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11485

The Impact of Language on Socioeconomic Integration of Immigrants

Aslan Zorlu, Joop Hartog

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11340

Distributional Effects of Welfare Reform for Young Adults: An Unconditional Quantile Regression Approach

Øystein Hernaes

published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101818

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. 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. 10429

Research Design Meets Market Design: Using Centralized Assignment for Impact Evaluation

Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Joshua Angrist, Yusuke Narita, Parag A. Pathak

published in: Econometrica, 2017, 85 (5), 1373-1432

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10108

Viewpoint: Estimating the Causal Effects of Policies and Programs

Jeffrey A. Smith, Arthur Sweetman

published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2016, 49 (3), 871–905.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10056

From Late to MTE: Alternative Methods for the Evaluation of Policy Interventions

Thomas Cornelissen, Christian Dustmann, Anna Raute, Uta Schönberg

published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 41, 47-60.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10055

Estimating More Precise Treatment Effects in Natural and Actual Experiments

Harriet Duleep, Xingfei Liu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9993

Evaluating the Impact of the Post-2008 Employment Subsidy Program in Turkey

Binnur Balkan, Yusuf Soner Baskaya, Semih Tumen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9989

The Value of Knowing the Propensity Score for Estimating Average Treatment Effects

Christoph Rothe

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9782

Nonparametric Instrumental Variable Methods for Dynamic Treatment Evaluation

Gerard J. van den Berg, Petyo Bonev, Enno Mammen

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 102 (2), 355–367.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9771

Does Activating Sick-Listed Workers Work? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Kai Rehwald, Michael Rosholm, Benedicte Rouland

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. 9692

The Effectiveness of Medical and Vocational Interventions for Reducing Sick Leave of Self-Employed Workers

Stijn Baert, Bas van der Klaauw, Gijsbert van Lomwel

revised version published in: Health Economics, 2018, 27 (3), e139 - e152

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9628

Personality Traits and the Evaluation of Start-Up Subsidies

Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn, Martin Weißenberger

published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 86, 87-108

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9617

Opening the Blackbox: How Does Labor Market Policy Affect the Job Seekers' Behavior? A Field Experiment

Patrick Arni

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9604

Identification and Inference in Regression Discontinuity Designs with a Manipulated Running Variable

Francois Gerard, Miikka Rokkanen, Christoph Rothe

published as 'Bounds on treatment effects in regression discontinuity designs with a manipulated running variable' in: Quantitative Economics, 2020, 11 (3), 839-870

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9567

Differential and Distributional Effects of Energy Efficiency Surveys: Evidence from Electricity Consumption

Thomas J. Kniesner, Galib Rustamov

published in: Journal of Benefit Cost Analysis, 2018, 9(3), 375-406

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9556

Modeling the Effects of Grade Retention in High School

Stijn Baert, Bart Cockx, Matteo Picchio

revised version published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2019, 34 (3), 403 - 424

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. 9491

New Evidence on Linear Regression and Treatment Effect Heterogeneity

Tymon Sloczynski

superseded by IZA Discussion Paper No. 11866

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9346

Simple Tests for Selection Bias: Learning More from Instrumental Variables

Dan A. Black, Joonhwi Joo, Robert J. LaLonde, Jeffrey A. Smith, Evan J. Taylor

published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 79, 102237

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9090

Can Compulsory Dialogues Nudge Sick-Listed Workers Back to Work?

Simen Markussen, Knut Røed, Ragnhild Camilla Schreiner

published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128 (610), 1276-1303

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9036

Average Wage Gaps and Oaxaca–Blinder Decompositions

Tymon Sloczynski

superseded by IZA Discussion Paper No. 12041

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. 8848

Drug Decriminalization and the Price of Illicit Drugs

Sónia Félix, Pedro Portugal

published in: International Journal of Drug Policy, 2017, 39, 121-129

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8839

Identification of the Timing-of-Events Model with Multiple Competing Exit Risks from Single-Spell Data

Bettina Drepper, Georgios Effraimidis

published in: Economics Letters, 2016, 147, 124-126

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8757

Inference on Causal Effects in a Generalized Regression Kink Design

David Card, David S. Lee, Zhuan Pei, Andrea Weber

revised version published in: Econometrica, 2015, 83(6), 2453–2483.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8756

The Finite Sample Performance of Semi- and Nonparametric Estimators for Treatment Effects and Policy Evaluation

Markus Frölich, Martin Huber, Manuel Wiesenfarth

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8549

Recovering Ex Ante Returns and Preferences for Occupations using Subjective Expectations Data

Peter Arcidiacono, V. Joseph Hotz, Arnaud Maurel, Teresa Romano

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 128 (12), 4475 - 4522

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8484

Does Early Child Care Help or Hurt Children's Development?

Christina Felfe, Rafael Lalive

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8455

Testing for Selection Bias

Joonhwi Joo, Robert J. LaLonde

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8454

Employment and Earnings Effects of Awarding Training Vouchers in Germany

Annabelle Doerr, Bernd Fitzenberger, Thomas Kruppe, Marie Elina Paul, Anthony Strittmatter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8280

Direct and Indirect Treatment Effects: Causal Chains and Mediation Analysis with Instrumental Variables

Markus Frölich, Martin Huber

published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 2017, 79 (5), 1645 - 1666

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. 8084

A General Double Robustness Result for Estimating Average Treatment Effects

Tymon Sloczynski, Jeffrey M. Wooldridge

published in: Econometric Theory, 2018, 34(1), 112–133

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8047

From Micro Data to Causality: Forty Years of Empirical Labor Economics

Bas van der Klaauw

published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 88-97

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8027

Education, Health and Wages

James J. Heckman, John Eric Humphries, Gregory Veramendi, Sergio Urzua

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. 7874

Mostly Harmless Simulations? On the Internal Validity of Empirical Monte Carlo Studies

Arun Advani, Tymon Sloczynski

superseded by IZA Discussion Paper No. 11862

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7693

Seasonality in Smoking Behaviour: Re-evaluating the Effects of the 2005 Public Smoking Ban in Italy

Emilia Del Bono, Klaus Grünberger, Daniela Vuri

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7628

Causal Analysis after Haavelmo

James J. Heckman, Rodrigo Pinto

revised version published in: Econometric Theory, 2015, 31(1), 115-151

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7564

Semiparametric Estimation and Inference Using Doubly Robust Moment Conditions

Christoph Rothe, Sergio Firpo

published in: Econometric Theory, 2019, 35 (5), 1048-1087

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

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