Program Evaluation
Spring 2010
Instructor:
Gabor Kezdi
kezdig@ceu.hu
Office: 814, Economics Department
Office hours: TBA
syllabus
Gabor’s
presentations
Student
presentations
Problem Sets
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Student presentation schedule
MAIN TEXT
Imbens, G. W. and J. M. Wooldridge (2009),
“Recent Developments in the Econometrics of Program Evaluation.” Journal of Economic Literature, 47:1,
5–86
ADDITIONAL READINGS
general readings
Ashenfelter, Orley (1978): “Estimating the
effect of training programs on earnings,” Review of Economics and
Statistics, 6(1): 47-57.
LaLonde,
Robert J. (1986): “Evaluating the econometric evaluations of training
programs with experimental data.” American Economic Review, 76(4):
604-620.
Smith
(2000) “A Critical Survey of Empirical Methods for Evaluating Active
Labor Market Policies.” Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics. 136(3):
1-22.
Smith,
Jeffrey. 2000. “Evaluating Active Labour Market Policies: Lessons from
North America.”
Blundell, Richard and Monica Costa Dias
(2002): “Alternative approaches to evaluation in empirical
microeconomics,” cemmap Working Paper CWP10/02.
Heckman,
James and Jeffrey Smith. 2004. “The Determinants of Participation in a
Social Program: Evidence from a Prototypical Job Training Program.”
Journal of Labor Economics. 22(4): 243-298.
Deaton
(2009): Instruments of Development. Randomization in the tropics, and the
search for the elusive keys to economic development
randomized
experiments
Banerjee
and Duflo: The Experimental Approach to Development Economics
Control Freacks – A short article
by The Economist (June 12, 2008)
Skoufias
(2005): PROGRESA and Its Impacts on the Welfare of Rural Households in Mexico.
Research Report 139, IFPRI.
Bertrand, M and Mullainathan,
S. (2003): “Are Emily and Greg more employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A
field experiment on labor market discrimination.” NBER WP 9873.
regressiond
discontinuity design
Hahn,
Todd, and Van der Klaauw (2001): “Identification and Estimation of
Treatment Effects with a Regression-Discontinuity Design,” Econometrica,
69(1): 201-209.
Angrist
and Lavy (1999): “Using Maimonedes' Rule to Estimate the Effect of Class
Size on Scholastic Achievement,” QJE 114(2), 533-575
Black, Galdo and
Smith (2005): “Estimating the Selection Bias of the
Regression-Discontinuity Design Using a Tie-Breaking Experiment,” Working
Paper
propensity score and
matching
Dehejia and Wahba (2002):
“Propensity score matching methods for non-experimental causal
studies,” Review of Economics and Statistics, 84(1): 151–161.
and the debate they
stirred:
Smith
and Todd: Does Matching Overcome Lalonde’s Critique of Nonexperimental
Estimators?
Dehejia
(2005): Practical propensity score matching: a reply to Smith and Todd (Journal
of Econometrics, 125; 355-364)
Smith
and Todd: Rejoinder
Dehejia: Re-Rejoinder
effect mechanisms
Ham,
John C. and Robert J. LaLonde (1996): “The effect of sample selection and
initial conditions in duration models: Evidence from experimental data on
training.” Econometrica, 64(1): 175-205.
Lee,
David S. (2008), “Training, Wages, and Sample Selection: Estimating Sharp
Bounds on Treatment Effects.” Working Paper
some interesting
applications
Black,
Smith, Berger and Noel: “Is the Threat of Reemployment Services More
Effective than the Services Themselves? Evidence from Random Assignment in the
UI System” American Economic Review. 93(4): 1313-1327.
Blundell, Costa Dias,
Meghir and Van Reenen (2004): “Evaluating the employment impact of a
mandatory job serach program,” Journal fo the European Economic
Association, 2(4): 569-606.
Albrecht, van den Berg, and
Vroman, “The knowledge lift: The Swedish
adult education program that aimed to eliminate low worker skill levels.”
IFAU Working Paper, 2004: 17.
Suranyi
and Kezdi (2009): A Successful School Integration Program. An Evaluation of
the Hungarian National School Integration Program, 2005-7. Roma Education
Fund.
ONLINE RESOURCES
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program_evaluation
http://www.evaluationwiki.org/index.php/Main_Page
Many more online
resources are available from http://www.evaluationwiki.org/index.php/Public_Domain_Evaluation_Resources
The User-Friendly
Handbook for Project Evaluation. National
Science Foundation, 2002
JPAL: The Abdul Latef Jameel Poverty
Action Lab at M.I.T.
http://www.programevaluation.org/
http://www.eval.org/
http://www.evaluationcanada.ca/site.cgi?s=1
http://www.ngoms.org/monitoringandevaluation.htm
IFS – A British
policy research institute in relation to UCL. http://www.ifs.org.uk/,
IFAU – A Swedish
institute for labor market policy evaluation. http://www.ifau.se/?epslanguage=EN
Evidence Network –
A British network on policy research. http://evidencenetwork.org/Mission.html
IZA Labor Policy –
Policy resarch branch of a labor economics research institute. http://www.iza.org/
Melbourne
CPE – An Australian research group on education policy. http://www.edfac.unimelb.edu.au/EPM/CPE/
Melbourne Institute of Applied Econmic and Social
Research. http://melbourneinstitute.com/labour/