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This monograph critiques the many nonexperimental impact estimation approaches that have been based on external comparison groups. It proposes an approach to evaluating employment and training (E&T) programs that calls for using the group of individuals who apply to a program but then choose not to participate in that program as an "internal" comparison group. The following are among the topics are discussed: methods used to evaluate E&T programs in the past; the case for applicant-based comparison groups (desired qualities in a nonexperimental estimation technique, potential nonparticipant comparison groups, the history of applicant-based comparison groups, and the regression discontinuity model for screen-out-based impact analysis); estimating program effects in the Aid to Families with Dependent Children Homemaker-Home Health Aide Demonstrations; testing alternative estimates for selection bias (classical and Bayesian approaches to model validation); and summary and recommendations (the rationale for applicant-based comparison groups, empirical estimates using alternative applicant-based comparison groups, and specifying validation tests). Appended is information about the foll
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- Author
- Larry L. Orr, John D. Blomquist, Glen G. Cain, Stephen H. Bell
- Publisher
- W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 300 South Westnedge Avenue, Kalamazoo, MI 49007-4686 (paperback: ISBN-0-88099-157-7, $14; hardcover: ISBN-0-88099-158-5, $24)
- Published
- 1995
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780880991582
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Business, Management, Economics
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