Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/29474 
Year of Publication: 
1996
Series/Report no.: 
ZEW Discussion Papers No. 96-31
Publisher: 
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW), Mannheim
Abstract: 
This paper explores the potential of an approach suggested by Manski of obtaining nonparametric bounds for treatment effects in evaluation studies without knowledge of the participation process. The practical concern is the effects of continuous vocational training in East Germany. The empirical application is based on a large cross-section that covers about 0.6% of the total population in 1993. The results are rather mixed. The large width of the intervals obtained emphasise the fundamental problem of all evaluation studies without good knowledge of the relationship between potential outcomes and the participation process. However, in some cases suitable exclusion restrictions are indeed capable of bounding the treatment effects strictly away from zero.
Subjects: 
Nonparametric estimation of treatment effects
training evaluation
East German labour markets
Mikrozensus
JEL: 
C14
C49
J24
J31
Document Type: 
Working Paper
Document Version: 
Digitized Version

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