The pre-programme earnings dip and the determinants of participation in a social programme: implications for simple programme evaluation strategies

Article Abstract:

Data from a major social experiment were examined to identify the counterfactual outcomes to the earnings of voluntary participants in a job training program had they not participated. These earning patterns and their implications for the validity of widely-adopted before-after and difference-in-differences estimators were investigated. It was shown that these estimators did not result in credible estimates of the impacts of training.

Employee Training, Research, Estimation theory, Occupational training

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Risk-Averse Rent Seekers and the Social Cost of Monopoly Power

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Competitive rent seeking is analyzed to evaluate the social cost of monopoly. Assuming the rent-seekers are risk-averse under uncertainty, competition is seen to result in rent dissipation for small rents. For large rents the value of resources utilized in competitive rent seeking may deviate substantially.

Evaluation, Finance, Monopolies, Social desirability

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