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can be used for program evaluation. It argues that under certain circumstances, such data can be used. In particular, data … policymakers and program administrators should apply when considering evaluation results. …
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This study was prepared by Sven Neelsen while he was working with the ifo Institute for Economic Research. It was completed in December 2011 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich in May 2012. The study investigates long-run effects of...
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Economies with low unemployment often have high disability rates. In Norway, the permanent disability insurance rolls …
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The Spanish Influenza pandemic of 1918-19 was one of the most devastating diseases in history, killing perhaps as many as 50-100 million people worldwide. In addition to the high death toll and the high general lethality, the disease had a peculiar feature: the largest increase in death rates...
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of the services received. This paper uses variables derived from patient evaluation surveys as measures of the quality of … patient mix of each physician is controlled for by regressing the patient evaluation responses on the patient characteristics …. The corrected quality evaluation variables are entered as outputs in the DEA model, and model specification tests indicate …
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This paper investigates empirically how five different vocational rehabilitation (VR) programs affect the transition …
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We report the results of a randomized controlled trial testing whether incentivizing physical exercise improves the academic performance of college students. As expected, the intervention increases physical activity. The main result is that it generates a strong and significant improvement in...
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This paper examines the efficacy of three conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs in Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua in mitigating the potential negative effects of an income shock caused by falling prices of coffee, an important cash crop to many CCT participants. A theoretical household model...
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Despite the importance of housing for people’s well-being, there is little evidence on the causal impact of housing and housing improvement programs on health and welfare. In this paper, we help to fill this gap by investigating the impact of a large-scale effort by the Mexican Government to...
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program matches, which ultimately leads to higher college completion rates because alternative evaluation is more likely to … admit students that tend to struggle elsewhere. Most of the impact of alternative evaluation is found to be due to their … applicant pool fixed (screening). Our analysis of the evaluation technology shows that the use of individual grades leads to the …
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