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  1. Causal Machine Learning and its use for public policy

    Article • Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, May 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Michael Lechner

  2. For better or worse? – The effects of physical education on child development

    Article • Labour Economics, December 2020, Elsevier

    Michael Lechner

  3. Does the estimation of the propensity score by machine learning improve matching estimation? The case of Germany's programmes for long term unemployed

    Article • Labour Economics, August 2020, Elsevier

    Michael Lechner

  4. Heterogeneous Employment Effects of Job Search Programs

    Article • Journal of Human Resources, March 2020, University of Wisconsin Press

    Michael Lechner

  5. The effects of incentives to exercise on student performance in college

    Article • Economics of Education Review, October 2018, Elsevier

    Michael Lechner

  6. The finite sample performance of inference methods for propensity score matching and weighting estimators

    Article • Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, May 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Lechner

  7. Practical procedures to deal with common support problems in matching estimation

    Article • Econometric Reviews, April 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Lechner

  8. After-school care and parents' labor supply

    Article • Labour Economics, October 2016, Elsevier

    Michael Lechner

  9. Mozart or Pelé? The effects of adolescents' participation in music and sports

    Article • Labour Economics, August 2016, Elsevier

    Michael Lechner

  10. The Effect of Firms’ Phased Retirement Policies on the Labor Market Outcomes of Their Employees

    Article • ILR Review, July 2016, SAGE Publications

    Michael Lechner

  11. Do Long-Term Unemployed Workers Benefit from Targeted Wage Subsidies?

    Article • German Economic Review, February 2015, De Gruyter

    Michael Lechner

  12. Physical Activity of Adults: A Survey of Correlates, Determinants, and Effects

    Article • Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, January 2015, De Gruyter

    Michael Lechner

  13. The performance of estimators based on the propensity score

    Article • Journal of Econometrics, July 2013, Elsevier

    Michael Lechner

  14. Sensitivity of matching-based program evaluations to the availability of control variables

    Article • Labour Economics, April 2013, Elsevier

    Michael Lechner

  15. Does the Order and Timing of Active Labour Market Programmes Matter?

    Article • Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, February 2013, Wiley

    Michael Lechner

  16. Estimation of treatment effects: recent developments and applications

    Article • Empirical Economics, December 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Michael Lechner

  17. The closer the sportier? Children’s sports activity and their distance to sports facilities

    Article • European Review of Aging and Physical Activity, October 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Michael Lechner

  18. Leisure Sports Participation in Switzerland

    Article • July 2011, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Michael Lechner

  19. Do German Welfare-to-Work Programmes Reduce Welfare Dependency and Increase Employment?

    Article • German Economic Review, May 2011, De Gruyter

    Michael Lechner

  20. LONG-RUN EFFECTS OF PUBLIC SECTOR SPONSORED TRAINING IN WEST GERMANY

    Article • Journal of the European Economic Association, April 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Michael Lechner

  21. Does leaving welfare improve health? Evidence for Germany

    Article • Health Economics, March 2011, Wiley

    Michael Lechner

  22. A Note on the Relation of Inverse-Probability-Weighting and Matching Estimators

    Article • Communication in Statistics- Theory and Methods, January 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Lechner

  23. A Caseworker Like Me – Does The Similarity Between The Unemployed and Their Caseworkers Increase Job Placements?

    Article • The Economic Journal, November 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Michael Lechner

  24. The Relation of Different Concepts of Causality Used in Time Series and Microeconometrics

    Article • Econometric Reviews, November 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Lechner

  25. Exploiting Regional Treatment Intensity for the Evaluation of Labor Market Policies

    Article • Journal of the American Statistical Association, September 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Lechner

  26. The Estimation of Causal Effects by Difference-in-Difference MethodsEstimation of Spatial Panels

    Article • Foundations and Trends® in Econometrics, January 2010, Now Publishers

    Michael Lechner

  27. Unemployed and their caseworkers: should they be friends or foes?

    Article • Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society), January 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Michael Lechner

  28. Kids or courses? Gender differences in the effects of active labor market policies

    Article • Journal of Population Economics, November 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Michael Lechner

  29. Active labour market policy in East Germany

    Article • Economics of Transition, October 2009, Wiley

    Michael Lechner

  30. Are Training Programs More Effective When Unemployment Is High?

    Article • Journal of Labor Economics, October 2009, University of Chicago Press

    Michael Lechner

  31. The effect of disability on labour market outcomes in Germany

    Article • Applied Economics, July 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Lechner

  32. Long-run labour market and health effects of individual sports activities

    Article • Journal of Health Economics, July 2009, Elsevier

    Michael Lechner

  33. Identification of the effects of dynamic treatments by sequential conditional independence assumptions

    Article • Empirical Economics, May 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Michael Lechner

  34. Sequential Causal Models for the Evaluation of Labor Market Programs

    Article • Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, January 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Lechner

  35. A note on endogenous control variables in causal studies

    Article • Statistics & Probability Letters, February 2008, Elsevier

    Michael Lechner

  36. What Did All the Money Do? On the General Ineffectiveness of Recent West German Labour Market Programmes

    Article • Kyklos, February 2008, Wiley

    Michael Lechner

  37. The Curse and Blessing of Training the Unemployed in a Changing Economy: The Case of East Germany After Unification

    Article • German Economic Review, December 2007, De Gruyter

    Michael Lechner

  38. What is the value added by caseworkers?

    Article • Labour Economics, April 2007, Elsevier

    Michael Lechner

  39. Does subsidised temporary employment get the unemployed back to work? Aneconometric analysis of two different schemes

    Article • Labour Economics, December 2005, Elsevier

    Michael Lechner

  40. A microeconometric evaluation of rehabilitation of long-term sickness in Sweden

    Article • Journal of Applied Econometrics, May 2004, Wiley

    Michael Lechner

  41. Almost Consistent Estimation of Panel Probit Models with “Small” Fixed Effects

    Article • Econometric Reviews, January 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Lechner

  42. A Microeconometric Evaluation of the Active Labour Market Policy in Switzerland

    Article • The Economic Journal, October 2002, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Michael Lechner

  43. Program Heterogeneity and Propensity Score Matching: An Application to the Evaluation of Active Labor Market Policies

    Article • The Review of Economics and Statistics, May 2002, The MIT Press

    Michael Lechner

  44. An evaluation of public employment programmes in the East German State of Sachsen-Anhalt

    Article • Labour Economics, April 2002, Elsevier

    Michael Lechner

  45. Some Practical Issues in the Evaluation of Heterogeneous Labour Market Programmes by Matching Methods

    Article • Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society), February 2002, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Michael Lechner

  46. Article • European Journal of Population / Revue européenne de Démographie, January 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Michael Lechner

  47. Alternative interpretations of hours information in an econometric model of labour supply

    Article • Empirical Economics, September 1993, Springer Science + Business Media

    Michael Lechner

  48. Expected job loss in East Germany shortly before German unification

    Article • Empirical Economics, June 1993, Springer Science + Business Media

    Michael Lechner

  49. Planning for self-employment at the beginning of a market economy: Evidence from individual data of East German workers

    Article • Small Business Economics, June 1993, Springer Science + Business Media

    Michael Lechner

  50. Testing logit models in practice

    Article • Empirical Economics, June 1991, Springer Science + Business Media

    Michael Lechner

  51. Matching estimation of dynamic treatment models: Some practical issues

    Article • Emerald

    Michael Lechner