. Evaluation studies of such programmes commonly rely on the conditional independence assumption (CIA), allowing a causal … success, these variables were neglected in evaluation studies so far due to data limitations. In this paper, we evaluate a new … administrative-survey data allows us to incorporate usually unobserved personality measures in the evaluation and investigate their …

functions which evaluate the entire predictive densities, including an evaluation of the impact of density features such as … individual density forecast performance. -- density forecasts ; forecast evaluation ; real-time data ; Survey of Professional …

Value-added data are an increasingly common evaluation tool for schools and teachers. Many school districts have …

Should principals explain and justify their evaluations? Suppose the principal's evaluation is private information, but … space is restricted, but the message is costless. I show that the principal justifies her evaluation to the agent if the … evaluation indicates bad performance. The justification assures the agent that the principal has not distorted the evaluation …

testable predictions regarding heterogeneous treatment effects from such programs. Using a large randomized evaluation in the …