Choosing Among Alternative Nonexperimental Methods for Estimating the Impact of Social Programs: the Case of Manpower Training

By James J. Heckman. 1989

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Water for Life: The Impact of the Privatization of Water Services on Child Mortality (2004, unknown): “While we cannot directly test this assumption, we can test whether the secular time trends in the control and treatment municipalities were the same in the pre-intervention periods (Heckman and Hotz, 1989).”
School decentralization: Helping the good get better, but leaving the poor behind (2008, unknown): “Second, since we do not have multiple periods of pre-intervention data we are not able to conduct the diagnostic tests recommended by Heckman and Hotz (1989) for assessing the validity of the underlying assumptions of the”
Does Matching Overcome Lalonde's Critique of Nonexperimental Estimators? (2005, unknown): “Heckman and Hotz (1989) find that the tests they apply to the NSW data exclude the estimators that would 3Heckman and Hotz (1989) make use of somewhat different data from the NSW experiment than LaLonde does.”
Comparative Politics and the Synthetic Control Method (2014, unknown): “The question of what the economic costs are for West Germany has received less attention in the literature.”
An Evaluation of Public-Sector-Sponsored Continuous Vocational Training Programs in East Germany (2000, unknown): “Of course there are many alternative ways to identify these effects of training, or more generally of ‘treatments’ (e.g. Angrist, 1995, Angrist, Imbens, and Rubin, 1996, Heckman and Robb, 1985, Heckman and Hotz, 1989, LaLonde, 1986).”
Innovations, Prices and Employment: A Theoretical Model and an Empirical Application for West German Manufacturing Firms (2003, unknown): “less labour is neccessary to produce a given output.(29) For plausible values of the price elasticity of demand, the elasticity ' of substitution between labour and capital, and the share of labour costs in total costs, the first effect outweighs the second.”
Evaluating continuous training programmes by using the generalized propensity score (2012, methodology): “Another test for the unconfoundedness assumption is based on the approached proposed in Heckman and Hotz (1989). This approach is successfully applied in Mueser, Troske and Gorislavsky (2007) in a binary matching context.”