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Alternative approaches to evaluation in empirical microeconomics
| Resumo: | Four alternative but related approaches to empirical evaluation of policy interventions are studied: social experiments, natural experiments, matching methods, and instrumental variables. In each case the necessary assumptions and the data requirements are considered for estimation of a number of key parameters of interest. These key parameters include the average treatment effect, the treatment on the treated and the local average treatment effect. Some issues of implemen- tation and interpretation are discussed drawing on the labour market programme evaluation literature. |
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| Autores principais: | Blundell, Richard |
| Outros Autores: | Dias, Monica Costa |
| Assunto: | Evaluation methods Matching Instrumental variables Social experiments Natural experiments |
| Ano: | 2002 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso restrito |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade de Lisboa |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
| Resumo: | Four alternative but related approaches to empirical evaluation of policy interventions are studied: social experiments, natural experiments, matching methods, and instrumental variables. In each case the necessary assumptions and the data requirements are considered for estimation of a number of key parameters of interest. These key parameters include the average treatment effect, the treatment on the treated and the local average treatment effect. Some issues of implemen- tation and interpretation are discussed drawing on the labour market programme evaluation literature. |
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