Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/36112 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 4700
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We extend the standard evaluation framework to allow for interactions between individuals within segmented markets. An individual's outcome depends not only on the assigned treatment status but also on (features of) the distribution of the assigned treatments in his market. To evaluate how the distribution of treatments within a market causally affects the average effect within the market, averaged over the full population, we develop an identification and estimation method in two steps. The first one focuses on the distribution of the treatment within markets and between individuals and the second step addresses the distribution of the treatment between markets. We apply our method to data on training programs for unemployed workers in France. We use a rich administrative register of unemployment and training spells as well as the information on local labor demand that is used by unemployment agencies to allocate training programs. The results show that the average treatment effect on the employment rate causally decreases with respect to the proportion treated in the market. Our analysis accounts for unobserved heterogeneity between markets (using the longitudinal dimension of the data) and, in a robustness check, between individuals.
Subjects: 
Treatment evaluation
equilibrium effects
matching estimators
JEL: 
C13
C14
C21
C31
J64
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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