Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/106282 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2014:1
Publisher: 
Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU), Uppsala
Abstract: 
This paper considers treatment evaluation in a discrete time setting in which treatment could start at any point in time. A typical application is an active labor market policy program which could start after any elapsed unemployment duration. It is shown that various average effects on survival time are identified under unconfoundedness and no-anticipation and inverse probability weighting (IPW) estimators are provided for these effects. The estimators are applied to a Swedish work practice program. The IPW estimator is compared with related estimators. One conclusion is that the matching estimator proposed by Fredriksson and Johansson (2008) overlooks a selective censoring problem.
Subjects: 
treatment effects
dynamic treatment assignment
program evaluation
work practice
JEL: 
C14
C4
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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