Microeconometric evaluation of active labour market policies - SFI
Microeconometric evaluation of active labour market policies - SFI
Microeconometric evaluation of active labour market policies - SFI
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The identification problem<br />
– Nonparticipants may not be comparable to participants<br />
– Participants before participation may not be comparable to participants after<br />
participation<br />
– These problems might persist even after conditioning on observable attributes<br />
Bad news: required assumptions are untestable!<br />
Even worse: different identifying strategies identify different effects!<br />
Important first steps in every <strong>evaluation</strong> study:<br />
- What do we want to estimate?<br />
- How can we translate desired effect into a statistical causal parameter?<br />
- What do we need to know to be able to estimate this parameter?
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