In this paper we apply the statistical framework developed by Imbens (1998) and Lechner (1999) to identify and to estimate the causal effects of multiple treatments under the conditional independence assumption. The example concerns youth employment programs which were set up in France during...

In many circumstances, the likelihood function does not have a simple tractable expression. The main examples discussed in the paper are the convolution and the mixture of distributions. Finite mixture models are commonly used to model data from a population composed of a finite number of...