Active labor market policies are massively used with the objective being to improve labor
market outcomes of individuals out of work. Many observational evaluation studies have …

This chapter develops three topics.(1) Identification of the distributions of treatment effects
and the distributions of agent subjective evaluations of treatment effects. Methods for …

Cash transfers to eligible households indirectly increase the consumption of ineligible
households living in the same villages. This effect operates through insurance and credit …

This paper compares the structural approach to economic policy analysis with the program
evaluation approach. It offers a third way to do policy analysis that combines the best …

This paper uses a structural model to understand, predict, and evaluate the impact of an
exogenous microcredit intervention program, the Thai Million Baht Village Fund program …

This article analyses the effectiveness of hiring credits. Using comprehensive administrative
data, we show that the French hiring credit, implemented during the Great Recession, had …

Identifying policy-relevant treatment effects from randomized experiments requires the
absence of spillovers between participants and nonparticipants (SUTVA) or variation in …

This paper makes three primary contributions. First, we demonstrate the usefulness of
general equilibrium models as tools with which to draw policy implications for policies …

This paper studies the potential small and large scale effects of a policy designed to produce
more informed consumers in the market for primary education. We develop and test a …

There is a long-standing debate about the extent to which economic theory should inform
econometric modeling and estimation. This debate is particularly evident in the …