Working Paper Series no. 565: Structural and atheoretic approaches to micro-econometrics of public policy evaluation (in french)

Abstract

This article aims at presenting and comparing structural and atheoretic approaches to micro-econometrics of public policy evaluation. If these approaches are often opposed because they rely on different scientific methodologies, they complement each other in the lessons one can draw from them. Two illustrations are presented: the evaluation of the workweek reduction in 1998 (Crépon, Leclair, Roux [1998]) and the local effect of speed enforcement cameras on road accidents (Roux, Zamora [2013]).

Sébastien Roux
August 2015

Classification JEL : B23, C10, C21, C52

Keywords : Evaluation methods, Structural models, Natural Experiments