This article reviews the effects of the Great Recession on youth labour markets. We argue
that young people aged 16–24 have suffered disproportionately during the recession. Using …

Many empirical questions in economics and other social sciences depend on causal effects
of programs or policies. In the last two decades, much research has been done on the …

This article proposes doubly robust estimators for the average treatment effect on the treated
(ATT) in difference-in-differences (DID) research designs. In contrast to alternative DID …

To estimate the dynamic effects of an absorbing treatment, researchers often use two-way
fixed effects regressions that include leads and lags of the treatment. We show that in …

In this article, we consider identification, estimation, and inference procedures for treatment
effect parameters using Difference-in-Differences (DiD) with (i) multiple time periods,(ii) …

Since the economic crisis in 2008, European youth unemployment rates have been
persistently high at around 20% on average. The majority of European countries spends …

This survey gives a brief overview of the literature on the difference-in-difference (DiD)
estimation strategy and discusses major issues using a treatment effects perspective. In this …

Abstract We assess South African workseekers' skills and disseminate the assessment
results to explore how limited information affects firm and workseeker behavior. Giving …

This paper presents an overview of the situation of youth in OECD countries since the onset
of the financial crisis focusing primarily on describing the characteristics and living …

The paper exploits a unique Chinese municipal dataset to assess the impact of Special
Economic Zones on the local economy. Comparing the changes between the municipalities …