Exploiting regional treatment intensity for the evaluation of labor market policies

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 105, Issue 491, 2010, Pages 1014-1029

  Frölich, Markus ^a   Lechner, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Active labor market policy; Conditional local instrumental variable; Fuller estimator; Geographic variation; Local average treatment effect; State border; Switzerland

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649430182     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/jasa.2010.ap08148     Document Type: Article

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