Chapter 72 Econometric Evaluation of Social Programs, Part III: Distributional Treatment Effects, Dynamic Treatment Effects, Dynamic Discrete Choice, and General Equilibrium Policy Evaluation

Abbring, Jaap H.; Heckman, James J.

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“…Crépon et al (2013) and Blundell et al (2004) have studied displacement effects associated with labour market programmes. The literature review by Abbring and Heckman (2007) includes a thorough discussion on displacement and various other types of external effects in the labour market. Since, in theory, displacement may be associated with any increase in labour supply, we argue that high job search intensity and low reservation wages of new home-owners may lead to displacement of other workers in the same region.…”

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Home-ownership and the Labour Market: Evidence from Rental Housing Market Deregulation

Laamanen

2017

Labour Economics

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Perhaps the most common finding relating housing to the labour market is that high home-ownership rates are associated with higher unemployment. In contrast, recent micro-evidence suggests that homeowners have relatively favourable labour market outcomes. We explore the effect of home-ownership on unemployment exploiting a rental housing market deregulation reform which created exogenous variation in home-ownership across regions, allowing us to avoid the endogeneity problem in earlier studies. While home-owners are less likely to experience unemployment, an increase in the home-ownership rate causes unemployment to rise. Externalities arising from consumption reductions and increased job competition may explain the conflicting evidence.

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Section: Instrumental Variables Analysesmentioning

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Home-ownership and the Labour Market: Evidence from Rental Housing Market Deregulation

Laamanen

2017

Labour Economics

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“…For more complete summaries see Heckman and Robb (1986), Heckman, Lalonde and Smith (1999), Vytlacil (2007a,2007b), Abbring and Heckman (2007), or Imbens and Wooldridge (2009). 13 DiNardo and Lee (2010) provide a discussion that is complementary to ours.…”

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Identification of Models of the Labor Market

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Taber²

2011

Handbook of Labor Economics

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This chapter discusses identification of common selection models of the labor market.We start with the classic Roy model and show how it can be identified with exclusion restrictions. We then extend the argument to the generalized Roy model, treatment effect models, duration models, search models, and dynamic discrete choice models.In all cases, key ingredients for identification are exclusion restrictions and support conditions.

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“…We consider these questions to be the concern of an ex ante program evaluation -a forecast of the effect of a program that has not occurred. For now, we consider the program that was actually implemented, and its effect on the population to which the program was actually exposed, and focus on the goal of making as credible and precise causal inferences as possible (See Heckman and Vytlacil (2007a,b); Abbring and Heckman (2007); Keane and Wolpin (2007); Todd and Wolpin (2006) for discussion. )…”

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“…(See Heckman and Vytlacil (2007a); Abbring and Heckman (2007) for a discussion of distributional effects and effects other than the average. )…”

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“…One is what could be called the ex-post evaluation problem, where the main goal is to document "what happened" when a particular program was implemented. The problem begins with an explicit understanding that a very particular program was run, individuals were assigned to, or self-selected into, program status in a very particular way (and we as researchers may or may not know very much about the process), and that because of the way the program was implemented, it may only be possible to identify effects for certain 1 Other recent reviews of common evaluation approaches include, for example, Heckman and Vytlacil (2007a,b); Abbring and Heckman (2007). 2 A sampling of papers that reflects this debate would include Heckman and Vytlacil (2005), Heckman et al (2006), Deaton (2008), Imbens (2009), Keane (2009) and Angrist and Pischke (2010). sub-populations.…”

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Program Evaluation and Research Designs

DiNardo

Lee

2011

Handbook of Labor Economics

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This chapter provides a selective review of some contemporary approaches to program evaluation. One motivation for our review is the recent emergence and increasing use of a particular kind of "program" in applied microeconomic research, the so-called Regression Discontinuity (RD) Design of Thistlethwaite and Campbell (1960). We organize our discussion of these various research designs by how they secure internal validity: in this view, the RD design can been seen as a close "cousin" of the randomized experiment. An important distinction which emerges from our discussion of "heterogeneous treatment effects" is between ex post (descriptive) and ex ante (predictive) evaluations; these two types of evaluations have distinct, but complementary goals. A second important distinction we make is between statistical statements that are descriptions of our knowledge of the program assignment process and statistical statements that are structural assumptions about individual behavior. Using these distinctions, we examine some commonly employed evaluation strategies, and assess them with a common set of criteria for "internal validity", the foremost goal of an ex post evaluation. In some cases, we also provide some concrete illustrations of how internally valid causal estimates can be supplemented with specific structural assumptions to address "external validity": the estimate from an internally valid "experimental" estimate can be viewed as a "leading term" in an extrapolation for a parameter of interest in an ex ante evaluation. * We are grateful to Diane Alexander and Pauline Leung, who provided outstanding research assistance. We thank Orley Ashenfelter, David Card, Damon Clark, Nicole Fortin, Thomas Lemieux, Enrico Moretti, Phil Oreopolous, Zhuan Pei, Chris Taber, Petra Todd, John Van Reenen, and Ken Wolpin for helpful suggestions, comments, and discussions.

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Chapter 72 Econometric Evaluation of Social Programs, Part III: Distributional Treatment Effects, Dynamic Treatment Effects, Dynamic Discrete Choice, and General Equilibrium Policy Evaluation

Cited by 231 publications

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