Search Results - subject:"program evaluation."

Gurun, Ayfer; Millimet, Daniel L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Keywords: tutoring, Turkey, tertiary education, program evaluation Corresponding author: Daniel L. Millimet Department … any valid exclusion restrictions in the data. Instead, we borrow various strategies from the program evaluation literature … valid exclusion restriction, we employ recently developed estimation techniques from the program evaluation literature that …

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School Nutrition Programs and the Incidence of Childhood Obesity

Millimet, Daniel L.; Tchernis, Rusty; Husain, Muna - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

, obesity, program evaluation Corresponding author: Daniel L. Millimet Department of Economics Southern Methodist …�cation assumptions required, we utilize the potential outcomes framework often adopted in the program evaluation literature. However … borrow various strategies from the program evaluation literature to assess the sensitivity of our results to any remaining …

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The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurship Competencies and Intentions

Oosterbeek, Hessel; Praag, Mirjam van; IJsselstein, Auke - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

This paper analyzes the impact of a leading entrepreneurship education program on college students’ entrepreneurship competencies and intentions using an instrumental variables approach in a difference-in-differences framework. We exploit that the program was offered to students at one...

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The Effectiveness of the Raskin Program

Hastuti; Sumarto, Sudarno; Suryahadi, Asep; Mawardi, Sulton - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008

The Raskin program is a subsidized rice program for poor families which provides 10 kg of rice per poor households at the price of Rp1,000 per kg. This report describes the findings of the study undertaken by the SMERU Research Institute to uncover the effectiveness of the Raskin program in...

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Did PROGRESA send drop-outs back to school?

Valdes, Maria Nieves - Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - 2008

This paper analyzes the effect of PROGRESA education grants on school enrollment. It looks at its effect on total school enrollment and in particular on school enrollment of drop-outs, i.e. those children who face a re-enrollment decision since they were not enrolled in school the year prior to...

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Vouchers and Caseworkers in Public Training Programs: Evidence from the Hartz Reform in Germany

Rinne, Ulf; Uhlendorff, Arne; Zhao, Zhong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Keywords: active labor market policy, program evaluation, matching, voucher, caseworker, training, Hartz reform …

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The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurship Competencies and Intentions

Oosterbeek, Hessel; Praag, Mirjam van; IJsselstein, Auke - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

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Workflows as UML activity diagrams : analytical methods for control-flow verification

Sundari, M. Hema (contributor); Sen, Anup K. (contributor); … - 2008

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Scheduling Markovian PERT networks with maximum-NPV objective

Creemers, Stefan; Leus, Roel; Lambrecht, Marc R. - 2008

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An Analysis of 1-Year Impacts of Youth Transition Demonstration Projects

Fraker, Thomas M.; Luecking, Richard G.; Mamun, Arif A.; … - Mathematica Policy Research - 2014

This article examines the impacts of the Youth Transition Demonstration, an initiative of the Social Security Administration (SSA) to improve employment outcomes for youth with disabilities.

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