Search Results - subject:"program evaluation."

Smith, Jeffrey A. - 2022

Knowledge of treatment effect heterogeneity or "essential heterogeneity" plays an important role in our understanding of how programs work and in the design of systems to allocate them among the eligible. This paper provides a relatively non-technical survey of the current state of the treatment...

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Does free hospitalization insurance change health care consumption of the poor? : short-term evidence from Pakistan

Helmsmüller, Simona; Landmann, Andreas - In: The Geneva risk and insurance review 47 (2022) 1, pp. 238-275

We analyze short-term effects of free hospitalization insurance for the poorest quintile of the population in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. First, we exploit that eligibility is based on an exogenous poverty score threshold and apply a regression discontinuity design. Second, we...

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Fostering soft skills in active labor market programs : evidence from a large-scale RCT

Schlosser, Analia; Shanan, Yannay - 2022

The long-term unemployed sometimes lack basic soft skills needed to enter and succeed in the labor market. We examine whether it is possible to develop or enhance these skills among adults by using a large-scale randomized control trial (RCT) to evaluate the effectiveness of an Active Labor...

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Economic impact of the most drastic lockdown during COVID-19 pandemic : the experience of Hubei, China

Ke, Xiao; Hsiao, Cheng - In: Journal of applied econometrics 37 (2022) 1, pp. 187-209

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Econometric Evaluation of Socio-Economic Programs : Theory and Applications

Cerulli, Giovanni - 2022 - 2nd ed. 2022.

Chapter 1. An Introduction to the Econometrics of Program Evaluation -- Chapter 2. Methods Based on Selection on … in evidence-based program evaluation for the social sciences. The author presents a comprehensive toolbox for designing … rigorous and effective ex-post program evaluation using the statistical software package Stata. For each method, a statistical …

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Matching on noise : finite sample bias in the synthetic control estimator

Cummins, Joseph R.; Miller, Douglas L.; Smith, Brock; … - In: Journal of econometric methods 13 (2024) 1, pp. 67-95

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A new estimation of default probabilities based on non-performing loans

Blanco, Roberto; Fernández-Ortiz, Elena; … - In: Finance research letters 62 (2024) 2, pp. 1-8

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The critical role of implementing partners : evidence from training micro and small enterprises across 12 financial service providers

Avdeenko, Alexandra; Frölich, Markus; Helmsmüller, Simona - In: The journal of development studies 60 (2024) 7, pp. 1088-1113

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Mentoring programs : characteristics within HRD and higher education contexts

Patterson, Clinton A. - In: Advances in developing human resources : ADHR 26 (2024) 1, pp. 56-66

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The transfer of federally funded technology : a study of small, entrepreneurial, and ambidextrous firms

Guerrero, Maribel; Link, Albert N.; Hasselt, Martijn van - In: Small business economics : an international journal 62 (2024) 3, pp. 1009-1023

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