← All authors Michael Lechner University of St. Gallen (from arXiv:2401.08290, 2024) · ORCID · OpenAlex
104 papers in scope · 97 published · 10 on the econ.EM arXiv · 6,853 citations · h-index 41 (over the papers listed here)
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Papers (11 of 104)
working paper 2025 · arXiv
Active labor market policies for the long-term unemployed: New evidence from causal machine learning
published 2025 · Labour Economics · 4 citations · first circulated 2021
with Daniel Goller, Tamara Pongratz, Joachim Wolff, Daniel Göller, Tamara Harrer
published 2025 · Journal of Business and Economic Statistics · 2 citations · first circulated 2024
Random Forest estimation of the ordered choice model
published 2024 · Empirical Economics · 1 citations
The heterogeneous response of real estate prices during the Covid-19 pandemic
published 2024 · Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society) · 2 citations
published 2024 · Algorithms · 3 citations
working paper 2024 · arXiv · 1 citations
Nonparametric bootstrap for propensity score matching estimators
published 2024 · Statistics & Probability Letters · 6 citations · first circulated 2022
published 2023 · Computational Economics · first circulated 2022
Do local expenditures on sports facilities affect sports participation?
published 2023 · Economic Inquiry · 6 citations · first circulated 2019
with Carina Steckenleiter, Tim Pawlowski, Ute Schüttoff
Institutions and the resource curse: New insights from causal machine learning
published 2023 · PLoS ONE · 11 citations
Causal Machine Learning and its use for public policy
published 2023 · Zeitschrift für schweizerische Statistik und Volkswirtschaft/Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Volkswirtschaft und Statistik/Swiss journal of economics and statistics · 36 citations
Rot‐Jaune‐Verde: On linguistic bias of referees in Swiss soccer*
published 2023 · Kyklos · 20 citations
with Richard Faltings, Alex Krumer
published 2022 · Labour Economics · 29 citations · first circulated 2019
working paper 2022 · arXiv · 3 citations
High Resolution Treatment Effects Estimation: Uncovering Effect Heterogeneities with the Modified Causal Forest
published 2022 · Entropy · 15 citations
How Does Post-Earnings Announcement Sentiment Affect Firms’ Dynamics? New Evidence from Causal Machine Learning
published 2022 · Journal of Financial Econometrics · 2 citations
Individual labor market effects of local public expenditures on sports
published 2021 · Labour Economics · 9 citations · first circulated 2019
with Tim Pawlowski, Carina Steckenleiter, Tim Wallrafen
For better or worse? – The effects of physical education on child development
published 2020 · Labour Economics · 28 citations · first circulated 2018
Does the estimation of the propensity score by machine learning improve matching estimation? The case of Germany's programmes for long term unemployed
published 2020 · Labour Economics · 12 citations · first circulated 2019
with Daniel Göller, Andreas Moczall, Joachim Wolff
Endogeneity and non‐response bias in treatment evaluation – nonparametric identification of causal effects by instruments
published 2020 · Journal of Applied Econometrics · 15 citations · first circulated 2015
Heterogeneous Employment Effects of Job Search Programs
published 2020 · The Journal of Human Resources · 62 citations
working paper 2019 · arXiv · 26 citations
working paper 2019 · arXiv · 1 citations
The Finite Sample Performance of Inference Methods for Propensity Score Matching and Weighting Estimators
published 2018 · Journal of Business and Economic Statistics · 51 citations · first circulated 2016
working paper 2018 · arXiv · 18 citations
Payment Evasion
published 2017 · Journal of Industrial Economics · 16 citations · first circulated 2014
with Stefan Buehler, Daniel Halbheer, Stefan A. Buehler
First in first win: Evidence on schedule effects in round-robin tournaments in mega-events
published 2017 · European Economic Review · 69 citations · first circulated 2016
with Alex Krumer
MIDWEEK EFFECT ON SOCCER PERFORMANCE: EVIDENCE FROM THE GERMAN BUNDESLIGA
published 2017 · Economic Inquiry · 47 citations · first circulated 2016
with Alex Krumer
Practical procedures to deal with common support problems in matching estimation
published 2017 · Econometric Reviews · 81 citations
working paper 2017 · arXiv · 32 citations
Why Do Tougher Caseworkers Increase Employment? The Role of Program Assignment as a Causal Mechanism
published 2016 · The Review of Economics and Statistics · 46 citations · first circulated 2014
Can Sport Really Help to Meet the Millennium Development Goals? Evidence From Children in Peru
published 2016 · Journal of Sports Economics · 23 citations
with Tim Pawlowski, Ute Schüttoff, Paul Downward
Heterogeneous sports participation and labour market outcomes in England
published 2016 · Applied Economics · 54 citations · first circulated 2013
with Paul Downward
After-school care and parents' labor supply
published 2016 · Labour Economics · 45 citations · first circulated 2013
Mozart or Pelé? The effects of adolescents' participation in music and sports
published 2016 · Labour Economics · 50 citations
with Charlotte Cabane, Adrian Hille
Sports and Child Development
published 2016 · PLoS ONE · 150 citations · first circulated 2011
with Christina Felfe, Andreas Steinmayr, Andrea Christina Felfe
The Effect of Firms’ Phased Retirement Policies on the Labor Market Outcomes of Their Employees
published 2016 · Industrial and Labor Relations Review · 22 citations
Difference-in-difference estimation by FE and OLS when there is panel non-response
published 2015 · Journal of Applied Statistics · 60 citations
with Núria Rodríguez-Planas, Daniel Fernández-Kranz
Workplace health promotion and labour market performance of employees
published 2015 · Journal of Health Economics · 16 citations · first circulated 2014
Physical Activity of Adults: A Survey of Correlates, Determinants, and Effects
published 2015 · Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik · 39 citations · first circulated 2014
with Charlotte Cabane
The Finite Sample Performance of Estimators for Mediation Analysis Under Sequential Conditional Independence
published 2015 · Journal of Business and Economic Statistics · 28 citations · first circulated 2014
Direct and Indirect Effects of Training Vouchers for the Unemployed
published 2015 · Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society) · 5 citations
Combining Matching and Nonparametric Instrumental Variable Estimation: Theory and An Application to the Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policies
published 2014 · Journal of Applied Econometrics · 9 citations · first circulated 2010
with Markus Frölich
Radius matching on the propensity score with bias adjustment: tuning parameters and finite sample behaviour
published 2014 · Empirical Economics · 98 citations
Labor Market Effects of Sports and Exercise: Evidence from Canadian Panel Data
published 2014 · Labour Economics · 7 citations
with Nazmi Sari
Do Long-Term Unemployed Workers Benefit from Targeted Wage Subsidies?
published 2013 · German Economic Review · 40 citations
The performance of estimators based on the propensity score
published 2013 · Journal of Econometrics · 311 citations
Does the Order and Timing of Active Labour Market Programmes Matter?
published 2013 · Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics · 27 citations
with Stephan Wiehler
Sensitivity of matching-based program evaluations to the availability of control variables
published 2013 · Labour Economics · 132 citations · first circulated 2011
Estimation of treatment effects: recent developments and applications
published 2012 · Empirical Economics · 14 citations
with Bernd Fitzenberger, Jeffrey A. Smith
The Estimation of Causal Effects by Difference-in-Difference Methods
published 2011 · Foundations and Trends® in Econometrics · 912 citations
LONG-RUN EFFECTS OF PUBLIC SECTOR SPONSORED TRAINING IN WEST GERMANY
published 2011 · Journal of the European Economic Association · 366 citations · first circulated 2004
A Note on the Relation of Inverse-Probability-Weighting and Matching Estimators
published 2010 · Communication in Statistics-Theory and Methods · 2 citations · first circulated 2007
The Relation of Different Concepts of Causality Used in Time Series and Microeconometrics
published 2010 · Econometric Reviews · 32 citations
Exploiting Regional Treatment Intensity for the Evaluation of Labor Market Policies
published 2010 · Journal of the American Statistical Association · 57 citations · first circulated 2006
with Markus Frölich, Markus Fr ouml lich
Do German Welfare-to-Work Programmes Reduce Welfare Dependency and Increase Employment?
published 2010 · German Economic Review · 52 citations · first circulated 2009
A Caseworker Like Me – Does The Similarity Between The Unemployed and Their Caseworkers Increase Job Placements?
published 2010 · The Economic Journal · 75 citations · first circulated 2008
with Stefanie Behncke, Markus Frölich, Markus Froelich
Does leaving welfare improve health? Evidence for Germany
published 2010 · Health Economics · 53 citations · first circulated 2009
Discussion of “Generalized Estimating Equations: Notes on the Choice of the Working Correlation Matrix”
published 2010 · Methods of Information in Medicine · 9 citations
Case Study: Improved Reservoir Management from a Surface Controlled Two-Zone Open Hole Packer Completion in a Horizontal Well in Al Shaheen Field, Offshore Qatar
published 2009 · International Petroleum Technology Conference · 6 citations
with Sabine Dyrvig Ernst, Michael J. Pitts, Thomas P. Lopdrup, Mohd Rushdan Jaafar
Increasing Recovery in the Complex Reservoirs in the Al Shaheen Field, Offshore Qatar, by Mastering Reservoir Pressure for Large Scale Horizontal Infill Drilling
published 2009 · International Petroleum Technology Conference · 4 citations
with Thomas P. Lopdrup, Henrik Bjerre Ohrt, Ghina El-Itawi, Rashed Noman, Mohd Rushdan Jaafar
Are Training Programs More Effective When Unemployment Is High?
published 2009 · Journal of Labor Economics · 54 citations · first circulated 2006
Active labour market policy in East Germany
published 2009 · Economics of Transition · 90 citations · first circulated 2006
The effect of disability on labour market outcomes in Germany
published 2009 · Applied Economics · 66 citations · first circulated 2003
with Rosalia Vazquez-Alvarez
Long-run labour market and health effects of individual sports activities
published 2009 · Journal of Health Economics · 240 citations · first circulated 2008
Unemployed and Their Caseworkers: Should They be Friends or Foes?
published 2009 · Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society) · 70 citations · first circulated 2007
with Stefanie Behncke, Markus Frölich, Markus Froelich
Identification of the effects of dynamic treatments by sequential conditional independence assumptions
published 2009 · Empirical Economics · 103 citations · first circulated 2005
with Ruth Miquel
Targeting labour market programmes — results from a randomized experiment
published 2009 · Zeitschrift für schweizerische Statistik und Volkswirtschaft/Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Volkswirtschaft und Statistik/Swiss journal of economics and statistics · 37 citations · first circulated 2007
with Stefanie Behncke, Markus Frölich, Markus Froelich
Sequential Causal Models for the Evaluation of Labor Market Programs
published 2009 · Journal of Business and Economic Statistics · 88 citations
What Did All the Money Do? On the General Ineffectiveness of Recent West German Labour Market Programmes
published 2008 · Kyklos · 127 citations · first circulated 2007
Some Thoughts on "The Principles Underling Evaluation Estimators with an Application to Matching" by James Heckman
published 2008 · Annals of Economics and Statistics
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The Curse and Blessing of Training the Unemployed in a Changing Economy: The Case of East Germany After Unification
published 2007 · German Economic Review · 165 citations · first circulated 2005
A note on endogenous control variables in causal studies
published 2007 · Statistics & Probability Letters · 51 citations · first circulated 2005
Aktive Arbeitsmarktpolitik in Deutschland und der Schweiz – Eine Gegenüberstellung
published 2006 · Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung · 2 citations
with Stefanie Behncke, Markus Frölich, Markus Froelich
Statistical assistance for programme selection - for a better targeting of active labour market policies in Switzerland
published 2006 · ifo DICE Report · 9 citations
with Markus Frölich, Stefanie Behncke, Markus Froelich
What is the value added by caseworkers?
published 2005 · Labour Economics · 23 citations · first circulated 2003
with J. G. Smith, Jeffrey A. Smith
Does subsidised temporary employment get the unemployed back to work? Aneconometric analysis of two different schemes
published 2004 · Labour Economics · 141 citations · first circulated 2002
with Michael Gerfin, Heidi Steiger
A microeconometric evaluation of rehabilitation of long‐term sickness in Sweden
published 2004 · Journal of Applied Econometrics · 101 citations · first circulated 2000
with Markus Frölich, Almas Heshmati
Swiss Unemployment Insurance Micro Data
published 2004 · Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch · 6 citations
with Jonathan Gast, Heidi Steiger
Wirkung der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik der Schweiz auf die individuellen Beschäftigungschancen von Arbeitslosen (Effect of active labour market policy in Switzerland on the individual employment prospects of unemployed people)
published 2003 · Mitteilungen aus der Arbeitsmarkt-und Berufsforschung · 6 citations · first circulated 2000
with Michael Gerfin
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Almost Consistent Estimation of Panel Probit Models with “Small” Fixed Effects
published 2003 · Econometric Reviews · 7 citations · first circulated 2002
with François Laisney
A Microeconometric Evaluation of the Active Labour Market Policy in Switzerland
published 2002 · The Economic Journal · 118 citations · first circulated 2000
with Michael Gerfin
Program Heterogeneity and Propensity Score Matching: An Application to the Evaluation of Active Labor Market Policies
published 2002 · The Review of Economics and Statistics · 504 citations · first circulated 2000
Eine wirkungsorientierte aktive Arbeitsmarktpolitik in Deutschland und der Schweiz: Eine Vision – zwei Realitäten
published 2002 · Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik · 9 citations
An evaluation of public employment programmes in the East German State of Sachsen-Anhalt
published 2002 · Labour Economics · 120 citations · first circulated 1999
with Martin Eichler
Some Practical Issues in the Evaluation of Heterogeneous Labour Market Programmes by Matching Methods
published 2002 · Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society) · 367 citations
Nonparametric bounds on employment and income effects of continuous vocational training in East Germany
published 1999 · Econometrics Journal · 63 citations · first circulated 1996
Earnings and Employment Effects of Continuous Gff-the-Job Training in East Germany After Unification
published 1999 · Journal of Business and Economic Statistics · 368 citations
Earnings and Employment Effects of Continuous Off-the-Job Training in East Germany after Unification
published 1999 · Journal of Business and Economic Statistics · 206 citations
Convenient estimators for the panel probit model
published 1998 · Journal of Econometrics · 72 citations · first circulated 1995
with Irene Bertschek
Combining Panel Data and Macro Information for the Estimation of a Panel Probit Model
published 1996 · Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch · 3 citations
with François Laisney
Estimation de modèles non linéaires sur données de panel par la méthode des moments généralisés
published 1996 · Économie & prévision · 6 citations
Utilisation jointe de données de panel et d'informations agrégées dans l'estimation d'un modèle Probit
published 1996 · Économie & prévision · 1 citations
with François Laisney
Some Specification Tests for Probit Models Estimated on Panel Data
published 1995 · Journal of Business and Economic Statistics · 31 citations
Tax Illusion and Labour Supply of Married Women: Evidence from German Data
published 1995 · Kyklos · 25 citations
Alternative interpretations of hours information in an econometric model of labour supply
published 1993 · Empirical Economics · 20 citations · first circulated 1991
with Richard Blundell, François Laisney
Planning for self-employment at the beginning of a market economy: Evidence from individual data of East German workers
published 1993 · Small Business Economics · 32 citations · first circulated 1992
with Friedhelm Pfeiffer
Expected job loss in East Germany shortly before German unification
published 1993 · Empirical Economics · 3 citations · first circulated 1992
with Friedhelm Pfeiffer, Linda Giesecke O'Shea, Giesecke O'Shea Linda
Seminonparametric Estimation of Binary-Choice Models With an Application to Labor-Force Participation
published 1993 · Journal of Business and Economic Statistics · 105 citations
with Siegfried Gabler, François Laisney
Innovation activity and firm heterogeneity: Empirical evidence from West Germany
published 1992 · Structural Change and Economic Dynamics · 14 citations
Semi-Nonparametric Estimation of Binary Choice Models Using Panel Data: An Application to the Innovative Activity of German Firms
published 1992 · Recherches économiques de Louvain · 5 citations
Testing logit models in practice
published 1991 · Empirical Economics · 32 citations
Lessons from Specification Tests for a Labour Supply Model
published 1991 · Annals of Economics and Statistics · 11 citations
with François Laisney, Steinar Strøm
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