TY  - JOUR
AU  - Heckman,James J.
TI  - Building Bridges Between Structural and Program Evaluation Approaches to Evaluating Policy
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 16110
PY  - 2010
Y2  - June 2010
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w16110
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w16110.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
James J. Heckman
Department of Economics
The University of Chicago
1126 E. 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Tel: 773/702-0634
Fax: 773/702-8490
E-Mail: jjh@uchicago.edu
AB  - This paper compares the structural approach to economic policy analysis with the program evaluation approach. It offers a third way to do policy analysis that combines the best features of both approaches. We illustrate the value of this alternative approach by making the implicit economics of LATE explicit, thereby extending the interpretability and range of policy questions that LATE can answer.
ER  -