Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/144165 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Citation: 
[Journal:] Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society) [ISSN:] 1467-985X [Volume:] 175 [Issue:] 2 [Publisher:] Wiley Blackwell [Place:] Hoboken [Year:] 2012 [Pages:] 587-617
Publisher: 
Wiley Blackwell, Hoboken
Abstract: 
Summary: The paper assesses the heterogeneity of treatment effects arising from variation in the duration of training. We use German administrative data that have the extraordinary feature that the amount of treatment varies continuously from 10 days to 395 days (i.e. 13 months). This feature allows us to estimate a continuous dose- response function that relates each value of the dose, i.e. days of training, to the individual post-treatment probability of employment (the response). The dose-response function is estimated after adjusting for covariate imbalance by using the generalized propensity score, which is a recently developed method for covariate adjustment under continuous treatment regimes. Our data have the advantage that we can consider both the actual and the planned durations of training as treatment variables: if only actual durations are observed, treatment effect estimates may be biased because of endogenous exits. Our results indicate an increasing dose-response function for treatments of up to 120 days, which then flattens out, i.e. longer training programmes do not seem to add an additional treatment effect.
Subjects: 
Training
generalized propensity score
continous treatment
program evaluation
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Article
Document Version: 
Manuscript Version (Preprint)

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