Evaluating Continuous Training ProgramsUsing the Generalized Propensity Score

This paper assesses the dynamics of treatment effects arising from variation in the durationof training. We use German administrative data that have the extraordinary feature that theamount of treatment varies continuously from 10 days to 395 days (i.e. 13 months). Thisfeature allows us to estimate a continuous dose-response function that relates each value ofthe dose, i.e. days of training, to the individual post-treatment employment probability (theresponse)...