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A Critical Survey of Empirical Methods for Evaluating Active Labor Market Policies

Jeffrey Andrew Smith

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Active labor market policies aim to affect the outcomes- earnings, employment, health, etc.- of those who participate in them. The task of evaluation research lies in devising methods to reliably estimate their effects on those outcomes, so that informed decisions about program expansion and termination can be made. The past thirty years have wit-

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Active labor market policies aim to affect the outcomes- earnings, employment, health, etc.- of those who participate in them. The task of evaluation research lies in devising methods to reliably estimate their effects on those outcomes, so that informed decisions about program expansion and termination can be made. The past thirty years have wit-

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Active labor market policies aim to affect the outcomes- earnings, employment, health, etc.- of those who participate in them. The task of evaluation research lies in devising methods to reliably estimate their effects on those outcomes, so that informed decisions about program expansion and termination can be made. The past thirty years have wit-

Key concepts: Matching (statistics), Odds, Interpretation (philosophy), Strengths and weaknesses, Propensity score matching, Quality (philosophy), Economics, Econometrics

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