Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/129371 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2015:5
Publisher: 
Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU), Uppsala
Abstract: 
This paper proposes a new framework for analyzing the effects of sequences of treatments with duration outcomes. Applications include sequences of active labor market policies assigned at specific unemployment durations and sequences of medical treatments. We consider evaluation under unconfoundedness and propose conditions under which the survival time under a specific treatment regime can be identified. We introduce inverse probability weighting estimators for various average effects. The finite sample properties of the estimators are investigated in a simulation study. The new estimator is applied to Swedish data on participants in training, in a work practice program and in subsidized employment. One result is that enrolling an unemployed person twice in the same program or in two different programs one after the other leads to longer unemployment spells compared to only participating in a single program once.
Subjects: 
treatment effects
dynamic treatment assignment
dynamic selection
program evaluation
work practice
training
subsidized employment
JEL: 
C14
C4
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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