Programme Evaluation with Multiple Treatments

Markus Frölich ()

No 542, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper reviews the main identification and estimation strategies for microeconomic policy evaluation. Particular emphasis is laid on evaluating policies consisting of multiple programmes, which is of high relevance in practice. For example, active labour market policies may consist of different training programmes, employment programmes and wage subsidies. Similarly, sickness rehabilitation policies often offer different vocational as well as non-vocational rehabilitation measures. First, the main identification strategies (control-forconfounding- variables, difference-in difference, instrumental-variable, and regressiondiscontinuity identification) are discussed in the multiple-programme setting. Thereafter, the different nonparametric matching and weighting estimators of the average treatment effects and their properties are examined.

Keywords: unobservables; treatment effect; matching; evaluation; covariate-adjustment; difference-in-difference (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C13 C14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 55 pages
Date: 2002-08
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Published - published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2004, 18 (2), 181-224

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