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Working papers
Lise, Jeremy, Shannon Seitz and Jeffrey Smith. 2005. “Equilibrium Policy Experiments and the Evaluation of Social Programs.” [Revised Draft of April 2005]
Lise, Jeremy, Shannon Seitz and Jeffrey Smith. 2005. “Evaluating Search and Matching Models Using Experimental Data.” [Draft]
Publications (partial
list)
2008
Galdo, Jose, Jeffrey Smith and Dan Black. 2007. “Bandwidth Selection and the Estimation of Treatment Effects with Unbalanced Data.” Annales d’Economie et Statistique, forthcoming.
Djebbari, Habiba and Jeffrey Smith. 2008. Heterogeneous Impacts in PROGRESA. Journal of Econometrics 145(1-2): 64-80.
Published Version (Requires Journal Access)
Goldberg, Jessica and Jeffrey Smith. 2008. “The Effects of Education on Labor Market Outcomes.” In Edward Fiske and Helen Ladd, eds. Handbook of Education Finance and Policy. Routledge. , 688-708.
Smith,
Jeffrey. 2008. “Heterogeneity and Higher Education.” In Michaael S. McPherson and Morton Owen Schapiro, eds. Succeeding in College: What it Means and How
to Make it Happen.
2007
Lechner, Michael and Jeffrey Smith. 2007. “What is the Value
Added by Caseworkers?” Labour Economics 14(2): 135-151.
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Bushway, Shawn and Jeffrey Smith. 2007. “Sentencing Using Statistical Treatment Rules: What We Don’t Know Can Hurt Us.” Journal of Quantitative Criminology 23(4): 377-387.
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Plesca, Miana and Jeffrey Smith.
2007. “Evaluating Multi-Treatment Programs: Theory and Evidence from the
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Black, Dan, Jose Galdo and Jeffrey Smith. 2007. “Evaluating the Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services System Using a Regression Discontinuity Design.” American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 97(2): 104-107.
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2006
Black, Dan and Jeffrey Smith. 2006. “Evaluating the Returns to College Quality with Multiple Proxies for Quality.” Journal of Labor Economics 24(3): 701-728.
Final Draft
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2005
Smith, Jeffrey and
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Smith, Jeffrey and
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Black, Dan, Kermit Daniel and Jeffrey Smith. 2005. “College
Quality and Wages in the
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Black, Dan and Jeffrey Smith. 2005. “Estimating the Returns to College Quality with Multiple Proxies for Quality.” Journal of Labor Economics 24(3): 701-728.
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2004
Black, Dan and Jeffrey Smith. 2004. “How Robust is the Evidence on the Effects of College Quality? Evidence from Matching.” Journal of Econometrics. 121(1): 99-124.
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Heckman, James and Jeffrey Smith. 2004. “The Determinants of Participation in a Social Program: Evidence from a Prototypical Job Training Program.” Journal of Labor Economics. 22(4): 243-298.
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Smith, Jeffrey. 2004 “Evaluating Local Economic Development
Policies: Theory and Practice.” In Alistair Nolan and Ging
Wong, eds.,
Barnow, Burt and Jeffrey
Smith. 2004. “Performance Management of
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2003
Black, Dan, Jeffrey Smith, Mark Berger and Brett Noel. 2003. “Is the Threat of Reemployment Services More Effective than the Services Themselves? Evidence from Random Assignment in the UI System.” American Economic Review. 93(4): 1313-1327.
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2002
Heckman, James, Carolyn Heinrich and Jeffrey Smith. 2001. “The Performance of Performance Standards.” Journal of Human Resources. 37(4). 778-811.
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2001
Black, Dan, Mark Berger and Jeffrey Smith.
2001. “Evaluating Profiling as a Means of Allocating Government Services.” In
Michael Lechner and Friedhelm Pfeiffer (eds.), Econometric Evaluation of Active
Labour Market Policies,
2000
Smith, Jeffrey. 2000. “A Critical Survey of Empirical Methods for Evaluating Active Labor Market Policies.” Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics. 136(3): 1-22.
Smith, Jeffrey. 2000. “Evaluating Active Labour
Market Policies: Lessons from
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Government reports
Knight, Genevieve, Stefan Speckesser, Jeffrey Smith, Peter Dolton
and Joào Pedro Azevedo. 2006. Lone Parents Work Focused
Interviews / New Deal for Lone Parents: Combined Evaluation and Further Net
Impacts.
Black, Dan, Jeffrey Smith, Miana Plesca and Suzanne Shannon. 2003. Estimating the Duration of Unemployment Insurance Benefit Recipiency. Revised Final Report to USDOL. [Revised Final Report]
Hui, Shek-Wai and Smith, Jeffrey. 2002. The Labor Market
Impacts of Adult Education and Training in
Resting papers
Smith, Jeffrey and Arthur Sweetman. 2001. “Improving the
Evaluation of Employment and Training Programs in
Daniel, Kermit, Dan Black and Jeffrey Smith. 1997. “College Quality and the Wages of Young Men.” [Draft]
Daniel, Kermit, Dan Black and Jeffrey Smith. 1995. “College Characteristics and the Wages of Young Women.” [Draft]
Data
Smith, Jeffrey. 2003. “Sampling Frame for the Eligible Non-Participant Sample in the National JTPA Study” [Final Version]
Humor
Smith, Jeffrey and Kermit Daniel. 1990. “Economics to Sociology Phrase Book.” [Skit Show Version] OLD!
Smith, Jeffrey. 2007. “The Politician’s Guide to the Returns to Schooling.” [Final Version]
Poetry
Smith, Jeffrey. 1985. “Ode to