Evaluating Preschool Programs When Length of Exposure to the Program Varies: A Nonparametric Approach
参与时长不同时的学前项目评估:一种非参数方法
Nonexperimental data are used to evaluate impacts of a Bolivian preschool program on cognitive, psychosocial, and anthropometric outcomes. Impacts are shown to be highly dependent on age and exposure duration. To minimize the effect of distributional assumptions, program impacts are estimated as nonparametric functions of age and duration. A generalized matching estimator is developed and used to control for nonrandom selectivity into the program and into exposure durations.…