pre-program earnings dip and the determinants of participation in a social program
Subtitle: implications for simple program evaluation strategies
By: James J. Heckman, Jeffrey A. Smith.
Contributors: Smith, Jeffrey A. 1962-; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 6983; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research) -- working paper no. 6983.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 41
Subjects: United States.; Occupational training -- United States -- Econometric models.; Wages -- United States -- Econometric models.; Occupational training -- United States -- Evaluation -- Statistical methods.; Occupational training -- Research -- Methodology.
Notes: JEL no. J24.

"February 1999."

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