Some practical issues in the evaluation of heterogeneous labour market programmes by matching methods
Journal
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society)
ISSN
0964-1998
ISSN-Digital
1467-985X
Type
journal article
Date Issued
2002-01-01
Author(s)
Abstract
Not available in German. Recently several studies analysed active labour market policies using a newly proposed matching estimator for multiple programmes. Since there is only very limited practical experience with this estimator, this paper checks its sensitivity with respect to issues that are of practical importance. The estimator turns out to be fairly robust to several matters that concern its implementation. Furthermore, the paper demonstrates that the matching approach per se is no magic bullet solving all problems of evaluation studies, but that its success depends critically on the information available in the sample. Finally, a comparison with a bootstrap distribution provides some justification for using a simplified approximation of the distribution of the estimator that ignores its sequential nature.
Language
English
Keywords
balancing score
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
No
Publisher
Blackwell
Publisher place
Oxford
Volume
165
Number
1
Start page
59
End page
82
Pages
24
Subject(s)
Eprints ID
15856
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