The Early History of Program Evaluation and the U.S. Department of Labor

Orley Ashenfelter

No 8118, IZA Discussion Papers from IZA Network @ LISER

Abstract: This paper contains a review of the early history of program evaluation research at the US Department of Labor. Some broad lessons for successful evaluation research are summarized.

Keywords: active labor market programs; training programs; program evaluation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B4 C21 J8 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 9 pages
Date: 2014-04
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-his, nep-lab and nep-ltv
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Published - published in: ILR Review, 2014, 63 (3S), 574 - 577

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