no code implementations • 22 Mar 2024 • Enzo Brox, Michael Lechner
Coworker shooting performance, meaningfully impacts both, manager decisions and third-party expert evaluations of individual performance.
no code implementations • 16 Jan 2024 • Nora Bearth, Michael Lechner
Adding additional identifying assumptions allows specific balanced differences in treatment effects between groups to be interpreted causally, leading to the causal balanced group average treatment effect.
no code implementations • 14 Dec 2022 • Hugo Bodory, Martin Huber, Michael Lechner
This paper investigates the finite sample performance of a range of parametric, semi-parametric, and non-parametric instrumental variable estimators when controlling for a fixed set of covariates to evaluate the local average treatment effect.
no code implementations • 8 Sep 2022 • Michael Lechner, Jana Mareckova
Uncovering the heterogeneity of causal effects of policies and business decisions at various levels of granularity provides substantial value to decision makers.
no code implementations • 18 Jun 2021 • Daniel Goller, Tamara Harrer, Michael Lechner, Joachim Wolff
Active labor market programs are important instruments used by European employment agencies to help the unemployed find work.
no code implementations • 7 Apr 2021 • Daniel Boller, Michael Lechner, Gabriel Okasa
We find that for male users, doing sport on a weekly basis increases the probability to receive a first message from a woman by 50%, relatively to not doing sport at all.
no code implementations • 30 Dec 2019 • Bart Cockx, Michael Lechner, Joost Bollens
Based on administrative data of unemployed in Belgium, we estimate the labour market effects of three training programmes at various aggregation levels using Modified Causal Forests, a causal machine learning estimator.
2 code implementations • 4 Jul 2019 • Michael Lechner, Gabriel Okasa
In this paper we develop a new machine learning estimator for ordered choice models based on the random forest.
no code implementations • 22 Dec 2018 • Michael Lechner
Uncovering the heterogeneity of causal effects of policies and business decisions at various levels of granularity provides substantial value to decision makers.
2 code implementations • 31 Oct 2018 • Michael C. Knaus, Michael Lechner, Anthony Strittmatter
We consider 24 different DGPs, eleven different causal machine learning estimators, and three aggregation levels of the estimated effects.
Econometrics