The Principles Underlying Evaluation Estimators with an Application to Matching

James Heckman

Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2008, issue 91-92, 9-73

Abstract: This paper has two objectives. The first is to review the basic principles underlying the identification of conventional econometric evaluation estimators and their recent extensions. The second is to apply the analysis to make explicit the implicit assumptions used in the method of matching.

Date: 2008
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