Data-Driven Policy Impact Evaluation : How Access to Microdata is Transforming Policy Design

The various articles in this book consider different policy areas. They include employment, health, professional training, social security and educational issues. Many of the contributions explain and apply various counterfactual econometric methods, serving as a useful reference for their study and use. The book provides a panorama of microdata issues relating to policy research, of administrative data availability, of various existing systems that can facilitate safe data use, of successful studies on policy impact and even of policy changes made on the basis of such studies. We hope it will be useful to a large readership in Europe and in the rest of the world.