matching and a variety of methods using propensity score matching. In each case, we consider estimates based on levels of post … propensity score matching is generally most effective, but the detailed implementation of the method is not of critical …

individual data on reported satisfaction with life it is possible to assess these latter gains from matching. We introduce a two … considerable gains from matching amounting to an increase in the fraction of very satisfied workers from 53.8 to 58.8 percent …

matching process, we find that the first best age-dynamic of firing taxes and hiring subsidies is typically hump-shaped. Taking …

education induce equal employment opportunities compared to regular vocational training. Using replacement matching on the basis … Ausbildung) voneinander unterscheiden. Durch den Einsatz von replacement matching auf Grundlage eines statistischen aggregierten …

The study contributes to the development of 'standards' for the application of matching algorithms in empirical … evaluation studies. The focus is on the first step of the matching procedure, the choice of an appropriate distance function … matching process. The choice of the analysed distance functions is determined by the results of former theoretical studies and …

This paper tests whether aggregate matching is consistent with unemployment being mainly due to search frictions or due … to job queues. Using U.K. data and correcting for temporal aggregation bias, estimates of the random matching function … are consistent with previous work in this field, but random matching is formally rejected by the data. The data instead …

matching or information revealed by others' behaviours, or to endogenous effects generated by bargaining within marriage. A … in individual effects. As such the correlation in the raw smoking data is consistent with positive assortative matching …