Kids or Courses? Gender Differences in the Effects of Active Labor Market Policies (2007)
Michael Lechner, Stephan A. Wiehler
This paper investigates active labor market programs in Austria with a special emphasis on male-female effect heterogeneity. On average, we find only small effects, if any, for most of the programs....
Does the Order or Timing of Active Labor Market Programs Matter? (2007)
Michael Lechner, Stephan A. Wiehler
This paper extends the traditional focus of active labor market policy evaluation from a static comparison of participation in a program versus nonparticipation (or participation in another program)...
Bias Reducing Estimation of Treatment Effects in the Presence of Partially Mismeasured Data (2006)
Labor market policy evaluation studies often rely on a merged database from different administrative entities, where part of the information might be archived with varying quality in different...
Bias Reducing Estimation of Treatment Effects in the Presence of Partially Distorted Data ∗ (2006)
Estimating treatment effects via propensity scores is a widespread method in the treatment evaluation literature. However, covariates are often measured with error, leading to biased propensity score...