We investigate the effectiveness of three different job-search and training programmes for German long-term unemployed … persons. On the basis of an extensive administrative data set, we evaluated the effects of those programmes on various levels … of aggregation using Causal Machine Learning. We found participants to benefit from the investigated programmes with …

Funding programmes and research initiatives by the German federation and federal states play an important role for all … research funding and programmatic finance for small towns. This article therefore examines selected programmes and initiatives …

political clientelism in the delivery of social programmes in India, especially by allowing party leaders to bypass local … surprisingly, by investing more money in large social programmes, supporting technological efforts to improve their efficiency, and …