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The Women of the National Supported Work Demonstration

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  • Sebastian Calónico
  • Jeffrey Smith

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This paper re-creates three of the samples from LaLonde’s famous 1986 paper that began the literature on “within-study designs” that uses experiments as benchmarks against which to assess the performance of nonexperimental identification strategies. In particular, we recreate the experimental data for the target group of women on welfare from the National Supported Work (NSW) Demonstration and two of the corresponding comparison groups drawn from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). The loss of these data resulted in the (sizable) subsequent literature devoting its attention solely to the NSW men. In addition to repeating LaLonde’s analyses on our recreations of his files for the AFDC women, we apply (many of) the estimators from later papers by Dehejia and Wahba and by Smith and Todd to these data. Our findings support the general view in the literature that women on welfare pose a less difficult selection problem when evaluating employment and training programs. They also call into question the generalizability of some of the broad conclusions that Dehejia and Wahba and Smith and Todd draw from their analyses of the NSW men.

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  • Sebastian Calónico & Jeffrey Smith, 2017. "The Women of the National Supported Work Demonstration," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 35(S1), pages 65-97.
    • Handle: RePEc:ucp:jlabec:doi:10.1086/692397
    DOI: 10.1086/692397
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    4. Dan A. Black & Lars Skipper & Jeffrey A. Smith & Jeffrey Andrew Smith, 2023. "Firm Training," CESifo Working Paper Series 10268, CESifo.
    5. Akanksha Negi, 2020. "Doubly weighted M-estimation for nonrandom assignment and missing outcomes," Papers 2011.11485, arXiv.org.
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    7. Dalla-Zuanna, Antonio & Liu, Kai, 2019. "Understanding Program Complementarities: Estimating the Dynamic Effects of a Training Program with Multiple Alternatives," IZA Discussion Papers 12839, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).

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