and reduces matching efficiency: average unemployment duration rises by 13% for the most productive workers after …

-varying values of outcome variables and other policy choices. This paper addresses this challenge by using propensity-score matching …

selection) in matching, instrumental variable and control functions methods. (2) It contrasts the roles of exclusion … restrictions in matching and selection models. (3) It characterizes the sensitivity of matching to the choice of conditioning …. (4) It demonstrates the problem of choosing the conditioning variables in matching and the failure of conventional model …

the empirical literature estimating the matching function, commonly used to map unemployment and vacancies into hires …. First, we show how to non-parametrically identify the matching function. Second, we estimate the matching function allowing … for unobserved matching efficacy, without imposing the usual independence assumption between matching efficiency and …

This paper develops a framework for estimating preferences in two-sided matching markets with non-transferable utility … with many-to-one matching. These methods allow me to investigate two issues concerning the centralized market for medical … increasing the number of residents training in rural areas while accounting for general equilibrium effects from the matching …

We examine the role of information in the college matching behavior of low- and high-income students, exploiting a …