This paper provides a meta‐analysis of microeconometric evaluation studies on the
effectiveness of active labor market policies. The analysis is built upon a systematically …

Welfare conditionality has become an idea of global significance in recent years. A 'hot
topic'in North America, Australia, and across Europe, it has been linked to austerity politics …

In recent decades, the use of conditionality backed by benefit sanctions for those claiming
unemployment and related benefits has become widespread in the social security systems …

Women are half as likely to be sanctioned as men in Germany's means-tested welfare
system, despite sanctions not explicitly being a gendered activation measure. I investigate …

Conventional methods for mediation analysis generate biased results when the mediator–
outcome relationship depends on the treatment condition. This article shows how the ratio-of …

The aim of this thesis is to examine activation, including support and control, among different
groups of social assistance (SA) recipients. Assessments and activation related decisions …

I define a treatment effect in terms of a comparison of outcomes and provide a typology of all
possible comparisons that can be used to estimate treatment effects, including comparisons …

This paper examines the development of the idea 'personalised conditionality'in social
security policy in Britain through the report, Realising Potential, commissioned by the last of …

Researchers and policy makers are increasingly dissatisfied with the “average treatment
effect.” Not only are they interested in learning about the overall causal effects of policy …

Background: When deciding how to allocate limited funds for social programs, policymakers
and program managers increasingly ask for evidence of effectiveness based on studies that …