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Workplace:	Economics Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, (more information at EDIRC) Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), (more information at EDIRC) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), (more information at EDIRC) CESifo, (more information at EDIRC)

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Working Papers

2018

1. 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
   Also in CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo Group Munich (2016)
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) (2013) View citations (11)
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2013) View citations (11)
2. The Consequences of Academic Match between Students and Colleges
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
   Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) (2015) View citations (8)
   CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo Group Munich (2017)

2017

3. Simple Tests for Selection: Learning More from Instrumental Variables
   CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo Group Munich View citations (1)

2016

4. Tobacco Regulation and Cost-Benefit Analysis: How Should We Value Foregone Consumer Surplus?
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (2)
   Also in Working Papers, eSocialSciences (2016) View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article in American Journal of Health Economics (2018)
5. Viewpoint: Estimating the Causal Effects of Policies and Programs
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article in Canadian Journal of Economics (2016)

2015

6. Employment and Training Programs
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (2)
   See also Chapter (2015)
7. Simple Tests for Selection Bias: Learning More from Instrumental Variables
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) View citations (2)

2014

8. 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 (4)
   See also Journal Article in IZA Journal of Labor Policy (2014)

2013

9. The Determinants of Mismatch Between Students and Colleges
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (38)

2011

10. On Educational Performance Measures
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) View citations (4)
    See also Journal Article in Fiscal Studies (2011)
11. The Impact of the UK New Deal for Lone Parents on Benefit Receipt
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) View citations (20)

2008

12. Heterogeneous Impacts in PROGRESA
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) View citations (50)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Econometrics (2008)

2007

13. Bandwidth Selection and the Estimation of Treatment Effects with Unbalanced Data
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) View citations (29)
    See also Journal Article in Annals of Economics and Statistics (2008)

2006

14. Evaluating Search and Matching Models Using Experimental Data
    Working Papers, Queen's University, Department of Economics View citations (4)
    Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) (2005) View citations (10)
    See also Journal Article in IZA Journal of Labor Economics (2015)

2005

15. Equilibrium Policy Experiments and the Evaluation of Social Programs
    Working Papers, Queen's University, Department of Economics View citations (42)
    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 (12)
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2004) View citations (53)
    Working Papers, Queen's University, Department of Economics (2003) View citations (8)
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) (2003) View citations (8)

2003

16. 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)
17. 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 (53)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Econometrics (2004)
18. The Determinants of Participation in a Social Program: Evidence from a Prototypical Job Training Program
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (9)
    Also in Working Paper Series, IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (2003) View citations (9)
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) (2003) View citations (11)
    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)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Labor Economics (2004)
19. What is the Value Added by Caseworkers?
    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 (8)
    Also in CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers (2003) View citations (14)
    University of St. Gallen Department of Economics working paper series 2003, Department of Economics, University of St. Gallen (2003) View citations (3)
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) (2003) View citations (8)
    See also Journal Article in Labour Economics (2007)

2002

20. 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 (16)
21. The Determinants of Participation in Adult Education and Training in Canada
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (2)
22. The Performance of Performance Standards
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (53)
    Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) (2002) View citations (59)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Human Resources (2002)

2000

23. A Critical Survey of Empirical Methods for Evaluating Active Labor Market Policies
    UWO Department of Economics Working Papers, University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics View citations (68)
    See also Journal Article in Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (SJES) (2000)
24. Evaluating Profiling as a Means of Allocating Government Services
    UWO Department of Economics Working Papers, University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics View citations (31)
25. 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 UWO Department of Economics Working Papers, University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics (1999) View citations (17)

1999

26. 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 (166)

1998

27. Characterizing Selection Bias Using Experimental Data
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (856)
    See also Journal Article in Econometrica (1998)
28. Evaluating the Welfare State
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (83)
29. Substitution and Dropout Bias in Social Experiments: A Study of an Influential Social Experiment
    UWO Department of Economics Working Papers, University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics View citations (11)
    See also Journal Article in The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2000)

1997

30. College Quality and the Wages of Young Men
    UWO Department of Economics Working Papers, University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics View citations (27)
31. The Sensitivity of Experimental Impact Estimates: Evidence from the National JTPA Study
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (8)
    See also Chapter (2000)

1996

32. 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 (42)

1995

33. Ashenfelters Dip and the Determinants of Participation in a Social Program: Implication for Simple Program Evaluation Strategies
    UWO Department of Economics Working Papers, University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics View citations (1)

1994

34. Accounting for Dropouts in Evaluations of Social Experiments
    NBER Technical Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (10)
    Also in University of Chicago - Economics Research Center, Chicago - Economics Research Center (1994) View citations (6)
35. 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 (3)

1993

36. 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 View citations (2)

1992

37. A Simulation Estimator for Dynamic Models of Discrete Choice
    Working Papers, Harris School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago View citations (1)
    Also in GSIA Working Papers, Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business (1992)
    See also Journal Article in Review of Economic Studies (1994)

Undated

38. Standards for Regression Discontinuity Designs
    Mathematica Policy Research Reports, Mathematica Policy Research View citations (3)

Journal Articles

2018

1. The usefulness of experiments
   IZA World of Labor, 2018, 436
2. Tobacco Regulation and Cost-Benefit Analysis: How Should We Value Foregone Consumer Surplus?
   American Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 4, (1), 1-25
   See also Working Paper (2016)

2017

3. Determinants of the Match between Student Ability and College Quality
   Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 35, (1), 45 - 66 View citations (15)
4. The Women of the National Supported Work Demonstration
   Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 35, (S1), S65 - S97

2016

5. Long‐Term Health Spending Persistence among the Privately Insured in the US
   Fiscal Studies, 2016, 37, 749-783
6. Viewpoint: Estimating the causal effects of policies and programs
   Canadian Journal of Economics, 2016, 49, (3), 871-905 View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper (2016)

2015

7. Evaluating search and matching models using experimental data
   IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 4, (1), 1-35 View citations (4)
   See also Working Paper (2006)

2014

8. 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 (4)
   See also Working Paper (2014)

2013

9. Estimation of treatment effects: recent developments and applications
   Empirical Economics, 2013, 44, (1), 1-11 View citations (2)

2011

10. On Educational Performance Measures
    Fiscal Studies, 2011, 32, (2), 187-206 View citations (4)
    See also Working Paper (2011)

2008

11. Bandwidth Selection and the Estimation of Treatment Effects with Unbalanced Data
    Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2008, (91-92), 189-216 View citations (6)
    See also Working Paper (2007)
12. Heterogeneous impacts in PROGRESA
    Journal of Econometrics, 2008, 145, (1-2), 64-80 View citations (55)
    See also Working Paper (2008)

2007

13. 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 (15)
14. Evaluating the Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services System Using a Regression Discontinuity Approach
    American Economic Review, 2007, 97, (2), 104-107 View citations (12)
15. What is the value added by caseworkers?
    Labour Economics, 2007, 14, (2), 135-151 View citations (55)
    See also Working Paper (2003)

2006

16. Estimating the Returns to College Quality with Multiple Proxies for Quality
    Journal of Labor Economics, 2006, 24, (3), 701-728 View citations (122)

2005

17. College Quality and Wages in the United States
    German Economic Review, 2005, 6, (3), 415-443 View citations (19)
18. Does matching overcome LaLonde's critique of nonexperimental estimators?
    Journal of Econometrics, 2005, 125, (1-2), 305-353 View citations (957)
    See also Working Paper (2003)
19. Rejoinder
    Journal of Econometrics, 2005, 125, (1-2), 365-375 View citations (53)

2004

20. 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 (232)
    See also Working Paper (2003)
21. 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 (59)
    See also Working Paper (2003)

2003

22. 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 (218)

2002

23. Introduction
    Labour Economics, 2002, 9, (2), 137-141 View citations (2)
24. The Performance of Performance Standards
    Journal of Human Resources, 2002, 37, (4), 778-811 View citations (34)
    See also Working Paper (2002)

2001

25. Reconciling Conflicting Evidence on the Performance of Propensity-Score Matching Methods
    American Economic Review, 2001, 91, (2), 112-118 View citations (64)

2000

26. 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 (75)
    See also Working Paper (2000)
27. 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 (89)
    See also Working Paper (1998)

1999

28. 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 (9)
29. 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 (123)

1998

30. Accounting For Dropouts In Evaluations Of Social Programs
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1998, 80, (1), 1-14 View citations (45)
31. Characterizing Selection Bias Using Experimental Data
    Econometrica, 1998, 66, (5), 1017-1098 View citations (913)
    See also Working Paper (1998)

1997

32. Assessing the Performance of Performance Standards in Public Bureaucracies
    American Economic Review, 1997, 87, (2), 389-95 View citations (29)
33. How much is your vote worth? The unfairness of campaign spending limits
    Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 1997, 16, (1), 162-165
34. 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 (306)

1995

35. Assessing the Case for Social Experiments
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1995, 9, (2), 85-110 View citations (270)

1994

36. A Simulation Estimator for Dynamic Models of Discrete Choice
    Review of Economic Studies, 1994, 61, (2), 265-289 View citations (78)
    See also Working Paper (1992)

Edited books

2011

1. The Performance of Performance Standards
   Books from Upjohn Press, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research View citations (9)

Chapters

2016

1. Government-Sponsored Vocational Education for Adults
   Elsevier

2015

2. 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 (2)
   See also Working Paper (2015)

2000

3. 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 (6)
   See also Working Paper (1997)

1999

4. 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 (669)