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The Long-Term Impacts of Vocational Rehabilitation

Westlie, Lars - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 2008

This paper investigates empirically how five different vocational rehabilitation (VR) programs affect the transition rate into employment, the consecutive monthly earnings and the employment duration. VR programs increase the employment probability of the participants, but this effect varies...

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Do Local Economic Development Programs Work? Evidence from the Federal Empowerment Zone Program

Busso, Matias; Kline, Patrick - Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University - 2008

This paper evaluates the impact of Round I of the federal urban Empowerment Zone (EZ) program on neighborhood level labor and housing market outcomes over the period 1994-2000. Using four decades of Census data in conjunction with information on the proposed boundaries of rejected EZs, we find...

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The Effect of Mergers on Consumer Prices: Evidence from Five Selected Case Studies

Ashenfelter, Orley; Hosken, Daniel - Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department … - 2008

mergers. Our study employs retail scanner data and uses familiar panel data program evaluation procedures to measure price … study employs retail scanner data and uses familiar panel data program evaluation procedures to measure price changes. Our …, Antitrust, Consumer Products, Program Evaluation 3 I. Introduction In the last three decades federal review of …

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L’impact de la réforme de 1990 sur les décisions de départ à la retraite des exploitants agricoles français

Fall, Madior; Roger, Muriel - In: Review of Agricultural and Environmental Studies - … 89 (2008) 4, pp. 29-53

We examine the effects of the French government’s 1990 reform for the farming sector on individuals’ retirement behavior. This reform has induced different changes in the Social Security Wealth of farmers living in different rural areas, and thus provided a natural experiment framework....

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The Effect of Active Labor Market Programs on Not-Yet Treated Unemployed Individuals

den Berg, Gerard J. van; Bergemann, Annette; Caliendo, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

duration, program evaluation, active labor market policy, identification Corresponding author: Gerard J. van den Berg … “Recent Developments in Program Evaluation” and in a June 2008 workshop at IZA (Bonn) for useful suggestions. We thank our …. Wooldridge (2008), “Recent developments in the econometrics of program evaluation”, Journal of Economic Literature, forthcom- ing …

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On the Specification of Propensity Scores: with Applications to the Analysis of Trade Policies

Millimet, Daniel; Tchernis, Rusty - Center for Applied Economics and Policy Research … - 2008

The use of propensity score models for program evaluation with non-experimental data typically requires the propensity …

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Recent Developments in the Econometrics of Program Evaluation

Imbens, Guido W.; Wooldridge, Jeffrey M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

IZA DP No. 3640 Recent Developments in the Econometrics of Program Evaluation Guido W. Imbens Jeffrey M. Wooldridge … Developments in the Econometrics of Program Evaluation Guido W. Imbens Harvard University, NBER and IZA Jeffrey M … Econometrics of Program Evaluation * Many empirical questions in economics and other social sciences depend on causal effects of …

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The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurship Competencies and Intentions: An Evaluation of the Junior Achievement Student Mini-Company Program

Oosterbeek, Hessel; van Praag, Mirjam; IJsselstein, Auke - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

education, program evaluation, entrepreneur competencies, entrepreneur intentions Corresponding author: C. Mirjam van …

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The impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurship competencies and intentions: An evaluation of the Junior Achievement Student Mini-Company Program

Oosterbeek, Hessel; Praag, Mirjam van; IJsselstein, Auke - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Both the European Community, its member countries and the United States have stimulated schools to implement entrepreneurship programs into schooling curricula on a large scale, based on the idea that entrepreneurial competencies and mindsets must be developed at school. The leading and...

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Household Wealth and Heterogeneous Impacts of a Market-Based Training Program: The Case of PROJOVEN in Peru

Galdo, Jose; Jaramillo, Miguel; Montalva, Veronica - Partenariat en Politiques Économiques (PEP), … - 2008

This paper analyzes the relationship between households' wealth and heterogeneous treatment impacts for a market-based training program that has benefited more than 40,000 disadvantaged individuals in Peru since 1996. We proxy long-run wealth by a linear index based on 21 households assets, and...

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