Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/166025 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2016:24
Publisher: 
Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU), Uppsala
Abstract: 
Evaluation studies aim to provide answers to important questions like: How does this program or policy intervention affect the outcome variables of interest? In order to answer such questions, using the traditional statistical evaluation (or causal inference) methods, some conditions must be satisfied. One requirement is that the outcomes of individuals are not affected by the treatment given to other individuals, i.e., that the no-interference assumption is satisfied. This assumption might, in many situations, not be plausible. However, recent progress in the researchfield has provided us with statistical methods for causal inference even under interference. In this paper, we review some of the most important contributions made. We also discuss how we Think these methods can or cannot be used within the eld of policy evaluation and if there are some measures to be taken when planning an evaluation study in order to be able to use a particular method. In addition, we give examples on how interference has been dealt with in some evaluation applications including, but not limited to, labor market evaluations, in the recent past.
Subjects: 
causal effect
causal inference
contagion effect
direct and indirect effects
evaluation studies
neighborhood effect
peer effect
peer influence effect
policy intervention
spillover effect
SUTVA
treatment effect
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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