Michael Lechner

Latest Institution: University of St. Gallen

All Institutions: University of Basel; University of St. Gallen; Monash University; Universität St. Gallen; SIAW University of St. Gallen; Swiss Institute for International Economics and Applied Economic Research (SIAW), University of St. Gallen; CEPR; ZEW Mannheim; NA; Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW); Swiss Institute for Empirical Economic Research (SEW); VU University Amsterdam; CESifo; Centre for Economic Policy Research


Causal Claims Network Graph

Edges that are evidenced by causal inference methods are in orange, and the rest are in light blue.

Based on the Following Papers:

A Microeconometric Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policy in Switzerland

Year: 2001
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Michael Gerfin; Michael Lechner

Does Subsidized Temporary Employment Get the Unemployed Back to Work? An Econometric Analysis of Two Different Schemes

Year: 2002
Journal: Labour Economics
Authors: Michael Gerfin; Michael Lechner; Heidi Steiger

What is the Value Added by Caseworkers?

Year: 2003
Journal: Labour Economics
Authors: Michael Lechner; Jeffrey Smith

The Effect of Disability on Labour Market Outcomes in Germany: Evidence from Matching

Year: 2004
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Michael Lechner; Rosalia Vazquez-Alvarez

Regional Treatment Intensity as an Instrument for the Evaluation of Labour Market Policies

Year: 2004
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Markus Frlich; Michael Lechner

Long Run Effects of Public Sector Sponsored Training in West Germany

Year: 2005
Journal: Journal of the European Economic Association
Authors: Michael Lechner; Ruth Miquel; Conny Wunsch

The Curse and Blessing of Training the Unemployed in a Changing Economy: The Case of East Germany after Unification

Year: 2005
Journal: German Economic Review
Authors: Michael Lechner; Ruth Miquel; Conny Wunsch

Active Labour Market Policy in East Germany: Waiting for the Economy to Take Off

Year: 2006
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Michael Lechner; Conny Wunsch

Exploiting Regional Treatment Intensity for the Evaluation of Labour Market Policies

Year: 2006
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Markus Frlich; Michael Lechner

Are Training Programs More Effective When Unemployment is High?

Year: 2006
Journal: Journal of Labor Economics
Authors: Michael Lechner; Conny Wunsch

Kids or Courses? Gender Differences in the Effects of Active Labour Market Policies

Year: 2007
Journal: Journal of Population Economics
Authors: Michael Lechner; Stephan Wiehler

What Did All the Money Do? On the General Ineffectiveness of Recent West German Labour Market Programmes

Year: 2007
Journal: Kyklos
Authors: Michael Lechner; Conny Wunsch

Earnings Effects of Training Programs

Year: 2007
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Michael Lechner; Blaise Melly

Does the Order and Timing of Active Labour Market Programmes Matter?

Year: 2007
Journal: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
Authors: Michael Lechner; Stephan Wiehler

Targeting Labour Market Programmes: Results from a Randomised Experiment

Year: 2007
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Stefanie Behncke; Markus Frlich; Michael Lechner

Unemployed and Their Caseworkers: Should They Be Friends or Foes?

Year: 2007
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Stefanie Behncke; Markus Frlich; Michael Lechner

A Caseworker Like Me: Does the Similarity Between Unemployed and Caseworker Increase Job Placements?

Year: 2008
Journal: Economic Journal
Authors: Stefanie Behncke; Markus Frlich; Michael Lechner

Long-run Labour Market Effects of Individual Sports Activities

Year: 2008
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Michael Lechner

Do German welfare-to-work programmes reduce welfare and increase work?

Year: 2009
Journal: German Economic Review
Authors: Martin Huber; Michael Lechner; Conny Wunsch; Thomas Walter

Does Leaving Welfare Improve Health? Evidence for Germany

Year: 2009
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Martin Huber; Michael Lechner; Conny Wunsch

Sensitivity of Matching-Based Program Evaluations to the Availability of Control Variables

Year: 2011
Journal: Labour Economics
Authors: Michael Lechner; Conny Wunsch

Sports and Child Development

Year: 2011
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Christina Felfe; Michael Lechner; Andreas Steinmayr

The Effect of Firms' Partial Retirement Policies on the Labour Market Outcomes of Their Employees

Year: 2013
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Martin Huber; Michael Lechner; Conny Wunsch

Heterogeneous Sports Participation and Labour Market Outcomes in England

Year: 2013
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Michael Lechner; Paul Downward

Afterschool Care and Parents' Labor Supply

Year: 2013
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Christina Felfe; Michael Lechner; Petra Thiemann

Do Firms Benefit from Active Labour Market Policies?

Year: 2013
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Michael Lechner; Patrycja Scioch; Conny Wunsch

Workplace Health Promotion and Labour Market Performance of Employees

Year: 2014
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Martin Huber; Michael Lechner; Conny Wunsch

Labor Market Effects of Sports and Exercise: Evidence from Canadian Panel Data

Year: 2014
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Michael Lechner; Nazmi Sari

Payment Evasion

Year: 2015
Journal: Journal of Industrial Economics
Authors: Stefan Buehler; Daniel Halbheer; Michael Lechner

Mozart or Pel? The Effects of Teenagers' Participation in Music and Sports

Year: 2015
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Charlotte Cabane; Adrian Hille; Michael Lechner

Direct and Indirect Effects of Training Vouchers for the Unemployed

Year: 2015
Journal: Labour Economics
Authors: Martin Huber; Michael Lechner; Anthony Strittmatter

The Effect of Physical Activity on Student Performance in College: An Experimental Evaluation

Year: 2017
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Hans Fricke; Michael Lechner; Andreas Steinmayr

Machine Learning Estimation of Heterogeneous Causal Effects: Empirical Monte Carlo Evidence

Year: 2018
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Michael C. Knaus; Michael Lechner; Anthony Strittmatter

Modified Causal Forests for Estimating Heterogeneous Causal Effects

Year: 2019
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Michael Lechner

Priority to Unemployed Immigrants: A Causal Machine Learning Evaluation of Training in Belgium

Year: 2020
Journal: Labour Economics
Authors: Michael Lechner; Bart Cockx; Joost Bollens

Reassessing the Resource Curse Using Causal Machine Learning

Year: 2020
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Roland Hodler; Michael Lechner; Paul A. Raschky


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