Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/207398 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 12572
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We place young professionals into established firms to shadow middle managers. Using random assignment into program participation, we find positive average effects on wage employment, but no average effect on the likelihood of self-employment. We match individuals to firms using a deferred-acceptance algorithm, and show how this allows us to identify heterogeneous treatment effects by firm and intern characteristics. We find striking heterogeneity in self-employment effects, and show that some assignment mechanisms can substantially outperform random matching in generating employment and income effects. These results demonstrate the potential for matching algorithms to improve the design of field experiments.
Subjects: 
propensity score
field experiments
management practices
self-employment
causal inference
JEL: 
J24
J64
D47
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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