Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/21386 
Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 542
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper reviews the main identification and estimation strategies for microeconomic policy evaluation. Particular emphasis is laid on evaluating policies consisting of multiple programmes, which is of high relevance in practice. For example, active labour market policies may consist of different training programmes, employment programmes and wage subsidies. Similarly, sickness rehabilitation policies often offer different vocational as well as non-vocational rehabilitation measures. First, the main identification strategies (control-forconfounding-variables, difference-in difference, instrumental-variable, and regressiondiscontinuity identification) are discussed in the multiple-programme setting. Thereafter, the different nonparametric matching and weighting estimators of the average treatment effects and their properties are examined.
Subjects: 
evaluation
matching
treatment effect
unobservables
covariate-adjustment
difference-in-difference
JEL: 
C14
C13
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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