Underadjustment Bias in the Evaluation of Manpower Training

Steven M. Director
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Steven M. Director: Brookings Institution and Michigan State University

Evaluation Review, 1979, vol. 3, issue 2, 190-218

Abstract: A review of the literature suggests that choice of control group may have affected the policy implications of the major evaluations of governmental training programs. It is argued that the usual evaluation designs underadjust for preprogram differences between trainees and the control group and thus yield biased estimates of program impact. At tempts to statistically correct for such bias are presented and assessed.

Date: 1979
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DOI: 10.1177/0193841X7900300202

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