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Working Papers
2022
- Simple Tests for Selection: Learning More from Instrumental Variables
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc 
Also in Working Papers, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group (2020) View citations (1) CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo (2017) View citations (7)
- Treatment Effect Heterogeneity
IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (1)
See also Journal Article in Evaluation Review (2022)
2021
- Some Children Left Behind: Variation in the Effects of an Educational Intervention
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc 
Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2020)
2020
- Are Program Participants Good Evaluators?
IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (2)
- Do Reemployment Programs for the Unemployed Work for Youth? Evidence from the Great Recession in the United States
Working Papers, Department of Economics, University of Missouri 
Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2020) View citations (1)
See also Journal Article in Economic Inquiry (2021)
2019
- Youth Unemployment and U.S. Job Search Assistance Policy during the Great Recession
University of Cyprus Working Papers in Economics, University of Cyprus Department of Economics View citations (1)
2018
- Does Federally-Funded Job Training Work? Nonexperimental Estimates of WIA Training Impacts Using Longitudinal Data on Workers and Firms
Working Papers, U.S. Census Bureau, Center for Economic Studies View citations (1)
Also in CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo (2016) View citations (8) IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2013) View citations (31) NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2013) View citations (33)
- The Consequences of Academic Match between Students and Colleges
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (11)
Also in CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo (2017) View citations (12) CLEF Working Paper Series, Canadian Labour Economics Forum (CLEF), University of Waterloo (2016)  IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2015) View citations (10)
See also Journal Article in Journal of Human Resources (2020)
2016
- Tobacco Regulation and Cost-Benefit Analysis: How Should We Value Foregone Consumer Surplus?
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (4)
Also in Working Papers, eSocialSciences (2016) View citations (4)
See also Journal Article in American Journal of Health Economics (2018)
- Viewpoint: Estimating the Causal Effects of Policies and Programs
IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (3)
See also Journal Article in Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique (2016)
2015
- Employment and Training Programs
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (11)
See also Chapter (2015)
- Simple Tests for Selection Bias: Learning More from Instrumental Variables
IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (13)
2013
- The Determinants of Mismatch Between Students and Colleges
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (41)
2011
- On Educational Performance Measures
IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (6)
See also Journal Article in Fiscal Studies (2011)
- The Impact of the UK New Deal for Lone Parents on Benefit Receipt
IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (33)
2008
- Heterogeneous Impacts in PROGRESA
IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (89)
See also Journal Article in Journal of Econometrics (2008)
2007
- Bandwidth Selection and the Estimation of Treatment Effects with Unbalanced Data
IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (30)
See also Journal Article in Annals of Economics and Statistics (2008)
2006
- Evaluating Search And Matching Models Using Experimental Data
Working Paper, Economics Department, Queen's University View citations (4)
Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2005) View citations (9)
See also Journal Article in IZA Journal of Labor Economics (2015)
2005
- Equilibrium Policy Experiments And The Evaluation Of Social Programs
Working Paper, Economics Department, Queen's University View citations (58)
Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2004) View citations (76) University of Western Ontario, Centre for Human Capital and Productivity (CHCP) Working Papers, University of Western Ontario, Centre for Human Capital and Productivity (CHCP) (2003) View citations (12) IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2003) View citations (9) Working Paper, Economics Department, Queen's University (2003) View citations (9)
2003
- Does Matching Overcome Lalonde's Critique of Nonexperimental Estimators?
University of Western Ontario, Centre for Human Capital and Productivity (CHCP) Working Papers, University of Western Ontario, Centre for Human Capital and Productivity (CHCP) View citations (101)
See also Journal Article in Journal of Econometrics (2005)
- How Robust is the Evidence on the Effects of College Quality? Evidence From Matching
University of Western Ontario, Centre for Human Capital and Productivity (CHCP) Working Papers, University of Western Ontario, Centre for Human Capital and Productivity (CHCP) View citations (55)
See also Journal Article in Journal of Econometrics (2004)
- The Determinants of Participation in a Social Program: Evidence from a Prototypical Job Training Program
IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (17)
Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2003) View citations (15) University of Western Ontario, Centre for Human Capital and Productivity (CHCP) Working Papers, University of Western Ontario, Centre for Human Capital and Productivity (CHCP) (2003) View citations (19) Working Paper Series, IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (2003) View citations (15)
See also Journal Article in Journal of Labor Economics (2004)
- What is the Value Added by Caseworkers?
CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers View citations (15)
Also in University of Western Ontario, Centre for Human Capital and Productivity (CHCP) Working Papers, University of Western Ontario, Centre for Human Capital and Productivity (CHCP) (2003) View citations (9) IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2003) View citations (9) University of St. Gallen Department of Economics working paper series 2003, Department of Economics, University of St. Gallen (2003) View citations (10)
See also Journal Article in Labour Economics (2007)
2002
- Is the Threat of Reemployment Services More Effective than the Services Themselves? Experimental Evidence from the UI System
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (18)
- The Determinants of Participation in Adult Education and Training in Canada
MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (3)
- The Performance of Performance Standards
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (69)
Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2002) View citations (74)
See also Journal Article in Journal of Human Resources (2002)
2000
- A Critical Survey of Empirical Methods for Evaluating Active Labor Market Policies
University of Western Ontario, Departmental Research Report Series, University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics View citations (96)
See also Journal Article in Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (SJES) (2000)
- Evaluating Profiling as a Means of Allocating Government Services
University of Western Ontario, Departmental Research Report Series, University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics View citations (39)
- Is the Threat of Training More Effective than Training Itself? Experimental Evidence from the UI System
Econometric Society World Congress 2000 Contributed Papers, Econometric Society View citations (8)
Also in University of Western Ontario, Departmental Research Report Series, University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics (1999) View citations (14)
1999
- Stochastic Threshold Models on Interest Rate
University of Western Ontario, Departmental Research Report Series, University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics View citations (18)
- The Pre-Program Earnings Dip and the Determinants of Participation in a Social Program: Implications for Simple Program Evaluation Strategies
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (212)
1998
- Characterizing Selection Bias Using Experimental Data
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1234)
See also Journal Article in Econometrica (1998)
- Evaluating the Welfare State
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (118)
- Substitution and Dropout Bias in Social Experiments: A Study of an Influential Social Experiment
University of Western Ontario, Departmental Research Report Series, University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics View citations (2)
See also Journal Article in The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2000)
- Taxes and Marriage: A Two-Sided Search Analysis
University of Western Ontario, Departmental Research Report Series, University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics View citations (11)
1997
- College Quality and the Wages of Young Men
University of Western Ontario, Departmental Research Report Series, University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics View citations (27)
- Employment Occupational Structure, Technological Capital and Reorganization of Production
University of Western Ontario, Departmental Research Report Series, University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics View citations (10)
- The Sensitivity of Experimental Impact Estimates: Evidence from the National JTPA Study
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (10)
See also Chapter (2000)
1996
- What Do Bureaucrats Do? The Effects of Performance Standards and Bureaucratic Preferences on Acceptance into the JTPA Program
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (63)
1995
- Ashenfelter's Dip and the Determinants of Participation in a Social Program: Implications for Simple Program Evaluation Strategies
University of Western Ontario, Departmental Research Report Series, University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics View citations (3)
1994
- Accounting for Dropouts in Evaluations of Social Experiments
NBER Technical Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (11)
Also in University of Chicago - Economics Research Center, Chicago - Economics Research Center (1994) View citations (6)
- Making the Most Out Of Social Experiments: Reducing the Intrinsic Uncertainty in Evidence from Randomized Trials with an Application to the JTPA Exp
NBER Technical Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (4)
1993
- U.S. Education and Training Policy: A Re-evaluation of the Underlying Assumptions Behind the "New Consensus A Re-evaluation of the Underlying Assumptions Behind the "New Consensus"
Working Papers, Harris School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago
1992
- A Simulation Estimator for Dynamic Models of Discrete Choice
Working Papers, Harris School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago 
Also in GSIA Working Papers, Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business (1992)
See also Journal Article in Review of Economic Studies (1994)
1975
- An Austrian Proof of Quasi-Concave Preferences
Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics View citations (1)
Undated
- Standards for Regression Discontinuity Designs
Mathematica Policy Research Reports, Mathematica Policy Research View citations (3)
- The Effect of Vocational Rehabilitation on the Employment Outcomes of Disability Insurance Beneficiaries: New Evidence from Canada
Mathematica Policy Research Reports, Mathematica Policy Research View citations (7)
See also Journal Article in IZA Journal of Labor Policy (2014)
Journal Articles
2022
- Treatment Effect Heterogeneity
Evaluation Review, 2022, 46, (5), 652-677 
See also Working Paper (2022)
2021
- DO REEMPLOYMENT PROGRAMS FOR THE UNEMPLOYED WORK FOR YOUTH? EVIDENCE FROM THE GREAT RECESSION IN THE UNITED STATES
Economic Inquiry, 2021, 59, (1), 162-185 
See also Working Paper (2020)
- Workforce Entry Including Career and Technical Education and Training
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2021, 695, (1), 260-274
2020
- Immunization strategies in networks with missing data
PLOS Computational Biology, 2020, 16, (7), 1-21 View citations (2)
- The Consequences of Academic Match between Students and Colleges
Journal of Human Resources, 2020, 55, (3), 767-808 View citations (11)
See also Working Paper (2018)
2018
- The usefulness of experiments
IZA World of Labor, 2018, 436 View citations (1)
- Tobacco Regulation and Cost-Benefit Analysis: How Should We Value Foregone Consumer Surplus?
American Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 4, (1), 1-25 View citations (5)
Also in American Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 4, (1), 1-25 (2018) View citations (5)
See also Working Paper (2016)
2017
- Determinants of the Match between Student Ability and College Quality
Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 35, (1), 45 - 66 View citations (71)
- The Women of the National Supported Work Demonstration
Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 35, (S1), S65 - S97 View citations (8)
2016
- Long‐Term Health Spending Persistence among the Privately Insured in the US
Fiscal Studies, 2016, 37, 749-783 View citations (2)
- Viewpoint: Estimating the causal effects of policies and programs
Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, 2016, 49, (3), 871-905 View citations (2)
Also in Canadian Journal of Economics, 2016, 49, (3), 871-905 (2016) View citations (3)
See also Working Paper (2016)
2015
- Evaluating search and matching models using experimental data
IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 4, (1), 1-35 View citations (25)
See also Working Paper (2006)
2014
- The effect of vocational rehabilitation on the employment outcomes of disability insurance beneficiaries: new evidence from Canada
IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2014, 3, (1), 1-29 View citations (8)
See also Working Paper
2013
- Estimation of treatment effects: recent developments and applications
Empirical Economics, 2013, 44, (1), 1-11 View citations (2)
2011
- On Educational Performance Measures
Fiscal Studies, 2011, 32, (2), 187-206 View citations (6)
See also Working Paper (2011)
2008
- Bandwidth Selection and the Estimation of Treatment Effects with Unbalanced Data
Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2008, (91-92), 189-216 View citations (26)
See also Working Paper (2007)
- Heterogeneous impacts in PROGRESA
Journal of Econometrics, 2008, 145, (1-2), 64-80 View citations (90)
See also Working Paper (2008)
2007
- Evaluating multi-treatment programs: theory and evidence from the U.S. Job Training Partnership Act experiment
Empirical Economics, 2007, 32, (2), 491-528 View citations (16)
See also Chapter (2008)
- Evaluating the Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services System Using a Regression Discontinuity Approach
American Economic Review, 2007, 97, (2), 104-107 View citations (27)
- What is the value added by caseworkers?
Labour Economics, 2007, 14, (2), 135-151 View citations (83)
See also Working Paper (2003)
2006
- Estimating the Returns to College Quality with Multiple Proxies for Quality
Journal of Labor Economics, 2006, 24, (3), 701-728 View citations (184)
2005
- College Quality and Wages in the United States
German Economic Review, 2005, 6, (3), 415-443 View citations (23)
Also in German Economic Review, 2005, 6, (3), 415-443 (2005) View citations (25)
- Does matching overcome LaLonde's critique of nonexperimental estimators?
Journal of Econometrics, 2005, 125, (1-2), 305-353 View citations (1384)
See also Working Paper (2003)
- Rejoinder
Journal of Econometrics, 2005, 125, (1-2), 365-375 View citations (53)
2004
- How robust is the evidence on the effects of college quality? Evidence from matching
Journal of Econometrics, 2004, 121, (1-2), 99-124 View citations (352)
See also Working Paper (2003)
- The Determinants of Participation in a Social Program: Evidence from a Prototypical Job Training Program
Journal of Labor Economics, 2004, 22, (2), 243-298 View citations (79)
See also Working Paper (2003)
2003
- Is the Threat of Reemployment Services More Effective Than the Services Themselves? Evidence from Random Assignment in the UI System
American Economic Review, 2003, 93, (4), 1313-1327 View citations (337)
2002
- Introduction
Labour Economics, 2002, 9, (2), 137-141
- The Performance of Performance Standards
Journal of Human Resources, 2002, 37, (4), 778-811 View citations (60)
See also Working Paper (2002)
2001
- Reconciling Conflicting Evidence on the Performance of Propensity-Score Matching Methods
American Economic Review, 2001, 91, (2), 112-118 View citations (120)
2000
- A Critical Survey of Empirical Methods for Evaluating Active Labor Market Policies
Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (SJES), 2000, 136, (III), 247-268 View citations (109)
See also Working Paper (2000)
- Evaluation aktiver Arbeitsmarktpolitik: Erfahrungen aus Nordamerika (Evaluating Avtive Labor Market Policies: Lessons from North America)
Mitteilungen aus der Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, 2000, 33, (3), 345-356
- Substitution and Dropout Bias in Social Experiments: A Study of an Influential Social Experiment
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2000, 115, (2), 651-694 View citations (150)
See also Working Paper (1998)
1999
- Estimates of Effective Guarantees and Tax Rates in the AFDC Program for the Post-OBRA Period
Journal of Human Resources, 1999, 34, (2), 312-345 View citations (12)
- The Pre-programme Earnings Dip and the Determinants of Participation in a Social Programme. Implications for Simple Programme Evaluation Strategies
Economic Journal, 1999, 109, (457), 313-48 View citations (192)
1998
- Accounting For Dropouts In Evaluations Of Social Programs
The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1998, 80, (1), 1-14 View citations (61)
- Characterizing Selection Bias Using Experimental Data
Econometrica, 1998, 66, (5), 1017-1098 View citations (1270)
See also Working Paper (1998)
1997
- Assessing the Performance of Performance Standards in Public Bureaucracies
American Economic Review, 1997, 87, (2), 389-95 View citations (46)
- How much is your vote worth? The unfairness of campaign spending limits
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 1997, 16, (1), 162-165
- Making The Most Out Of Programme Evaluations and Social Experiments: Accounting For Heterogeneity in Programme Impacts
Review of Economic Studies, 1997, 64, (4), 487-535 View citations (461)
1995
- Assessing the Case for Social Experiments
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1995, 9, (2), 85-110 View citations (344)
1994
- A Simulation Estimator for Dynamic Models of Discrete Choice
Review of Economic Studies, 1994, 61, (2), 265-289 View citations (119)
See also Working Paper (1992)
Books
2021
- Are Participants Good Evaluators?
Books from Upjohn Press, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research View citations (1)
Edited books
2011
- The Performance of Performance Standards
Books from Upjohn Press, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research View citations (18)
Chapters
2016
- Government-Sponsored Vocational Education for Adults
Elsevier View citations (18)
2015
- Employment and Training Programs
A chapter in Economics of Means-Tested Transfer Programs in the United States, Volume 2, 2015, pp 127-234 View citations (11)
See also Working Paper (2015)
2008
- Evaluating multi-treatment programs: theory and evidence from the U.S. Job Training Partnership Act experiment
Springer
See also Journal Article in Empirical Economics (2007)
2000
- The Sensitivity of Experimental Impact Estimates (Evidence from the National JTPA Study)
A chapter in Youth Employment and Joblessness in Advanced Countries, 2000, pp 331-356 View citations (10)
See also Working Paper (1997)
1999
- The economics and econometrics of active labor market programs
Chapter 31 in Handbook of Labor Economics, 1999, vol. 3, Part A, pp 1865-2097 View citations (1274)
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