The Assumptions Underlying Evaluation Estimators

Authors

  • James J. Heckman University of Chicago, Department of Economics

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12660/bre.v30n22010.3688

Keywords:

Evaluation Estimators, Policy Evaluation

Abstract

This paper reviews the basic principles underlying the identication of econometric evaluation estimators and their recent extensions. It considers the choice of the estimator in terms of the decision model used by agents and the information they have available. Building on Barros's pioneering work [Barros (1987), reprinted here] I apply the analysisto the method of matching.

Author Biography

James J. Heckman, University of Chicago, Department of Economics

The University of Chicago, University College Dublin and the American Bar Foundation

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Published

2010-12-02

Issue

Vol. 30 No. 2 (2010): Special Volume in Honor of Ricardo Paes de Barros

Section

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