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 …

When patients receive an intervention based on whether they score below or above some
threshold value on a continuously measured random variable, the intervention will be …

We examine whether short sellers detect firms that misrepresent their financial statements,
and whether their trading conveys external costs or benefits to other investors. Abnormal …

The differential performance of six Swedish active labour market programs for the
unemployed is investigated in terms of short-and long-term employment probability and un …

We study the design of randomized controlled experiments when outcomes are significantly
affected by experimental subjects' unobserved effort expenditure. While standard …

Unemployment insurance systems include the monitoring of unemployed workers and
punitive sanctions if job search requirements are violated. We analyze the causal effect of …

Encouraging and helping elderly to postpone a nursing home admission appears to be a
win-win that keeps long-term care spending in check and is in line with the target …

This article evaluates the effects of intensive counseling schemes that are provided to about
20% of the unemployed since the 2001 French unemployment policy reform (PARE) …

This article investigates how precisely short-term, job search-oriented training programs as
opposed to long-term, human capital intensive training programs work. We evaluate and …