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A General Equilibrium Evaluation of the Employment Service

Plesca, Miana - Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis (RCEA) - 2010

This paper provides a general equilibrium evaluation of the Employment Service, also known as the Public Labor Exchange (PLX), a national program which facilitates meetings between job seekers and vacancies. The paper departs from the partial equilibrium framework of previous evaluations by...

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Measuring Economic and Social Impacts of Migration in Colombia: New evidence

Cárdenas, Mauricio; Medina, Carlos; Trejos, Andrés - BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA - 2010

This paper analyses a comprehensive dataset on migration using robust econometric methodologies to assess a range of economic and social impacts of migration on individuals and households left behind. Our findings indicate that there is no significant impact on labour force participation in...

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Meta-evaluations in government and government institutions: A case study example from the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research

Madzivhandila, T.P.; Griffith, Garry R.; Fleming, Euan M.; … - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2010

from ACIAR program evaluation activities when developing a meta-evaluation model for the Limpopo Department of Agriculture … extension setting. We explore quality issues relating to evaluation studies in the context of government institutions. Program … evaluation standards (PES) are divided into categories of utility, feasibility, propriety and accuracy to provide a framework for …

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Partial Idendification of Wage Effects of Training Programs

Lechner, Michael; Melly, Blaise - Brown University, Department of Economics - 2010

In an evaluation of a job-training program, the influence of the program on the in-dividual wages is important, because it reflects the program effect on human capital. Esti-mating these effects is complicated because we observe wages only for employed individuals, and employment is itself an...

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Explaining Randomized Evaluation Techniques Using Classroom Games

Mani, Subha; Dasgupta, Utteeyo - Economics Department, Fordham University - 2010

Over the last decade, randomized evaluations have taken the field of development economics by storm. Despite the availability of strong review pieces in the topic, there is no pedagogical paper on randomized evaluation. This paper bridges the gap by introducing three interactive classroom games...

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Do differences in the scale of irrigation projects generate different impacts on poverty and production?

Dillon, Andrew - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010

This paper investigates differences in household production and consumption among small- and large-scale irrigators to assess whether the scale of an irrigation project increases household welfare in Mali. Much of the evidence of the impact of irrigation does not use counterfactual analysis to...

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ABC, 123: Can you text me now? The Impact of a Mobile Phone Literacy Program on Educational Outcomes.

Aker, Jenny C; Ksoll, Christohper; Lybbert, Travis J. - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2010

We report the short-term results from a randomized evaluation of a mobile phone literacy and numeracy program (Project ABC) in Niger, in which adult literacy students learned how to use mobile phones as part of a literacy and numeracy class. Students in ABC villages showed substantial gains in...

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The Impact of Funding on Research Collaboration: Evidence from Argentina

Maffioli, Alessandro; Ubfal, Diego - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

In this paper, we evaluate the impact of research grants on the amount of collaboration, among scientific researchers in Argentina. We find a positive and significant impact of funding on collaboration, which is measured in terms of the number of co-authors for publications in peer-reviewed...

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Estimation of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects on Hazard Rates

Gaure, Simen; Røed, Knut; den Berg, Gerard J. van; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Consider a setting where a treatment that starts at some point during a spell (e.g. in unemployment) may impact on the hazard rate of the spell duration, and where the impact may be heterogeneous across subjects. We provide Monte Carlo evidence on the feasibility of estimating the distribution...

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Wages, Employment and Tenure of Temporarily Subsidized Workers: Does the Industry Matter?

Stephan, Gesine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper explores whether wage, employment and tenure outcomes of workers taking up a job subsidized by the German Federal Employment Agency differ by industry. The analysis utilizes administrative data and statistical matching techniques; it covers an observation period of 3.5 years. First,...

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