Robust methods for the evaluation of policy reforms (B05)

• Subject Area: Statistics and Econometrics
• Term: from 2010 to 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 139943784

The project develops new econometric methods for impact evaluation and applies them in the empirical analysis of educational interventions in the German Internet Panel, in France and in Sweden. In the first part, nonparametric methods are developed for models that permit arbitrary treatment effect heterogeneity. This includes methods for mediation analysis, reform sequences and causal chains, regression discontinuity design and distributional effects, bandwidth choice and doubly robust estimators, instrumental variables, semiparametric models with self-selection and endogeneity and econometrics for randomized experiments (RCT). In the second part, educational and health reforms are evaluated with a focus on the longitudinal projects that were initiated in the second funding period in the GIP, in France and in Sweden.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 884: Political Economy of Reforms
• Applicant Institution: Universität Mannheim
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Gerard J. van den Berg, until 1/2017; Professor Dr. Markus Frölich; Professor Daniel Gutknecht, Ph.D., until 8/2019; Professor Dr. Enno Mammen, until 11/2014; Professor Dr. Christoph Rothe