Jeffrey A. Smith
Funded Research:
Estimating Neighborhood Effects on Low Income Youth (Grant, WT)
Professor, Economics Department, University of Michigan.
Ph.D., Unviersity of Chicago
Smith's areas of research are labor economics and applied econometrics. His research centers on methods for the evaluation of social programs such as job training for the disadvantaged. He has also written papers examining the labor market effects of university quality and the use of statistical treatment rules to assign persons to government programs.
Recent Publications
Books
Millimet, D., Smith, Jeffrey A., and E. Vytlacil. 2008. Modelling and evaluating treatment effects in econometrics. Amsterdam: JAI.
Journal Articles
Djebbari, H., and Smith, Jeffrey A. 2008. "Heterogeneous impacts in PROGRESA." Journal of Econometrics, 145(1-2): 64-80. DOI:10.1016/j.jeconom.2008.05.012. Licensed Access. Worldcat.
Black, Dan, Jose Galdo, and Jeffrey A. Smith. 2007. "Evaluating the Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services System Using a Regression Discontinuity Design." American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 97(2): 104-107. DOI:10.1257/aer.97.2.104. Licensed Access.
Lechner, M., and Smith, Jeffrey A. 2007. "What is the value added by caseworkers?" Labour Economics, 14(2): 135-151. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2004.12.002. Licensed Access.
Plesca, M., and Jeffrey A. Smith. 2007. "Evaluating multi-treatment programs: theory and evidence from the US Job Training Partnership Act experiment." Empirical Economics, 32(2-3): 491-528. DOI:10.1007/s00181-006-0095-0. Licensed Access.
Black, D.A., and Jeffrey A. Smith. 2006. "Estimating the returns to college quality with multiple proxies for quality." Journal of Labor Economics, 24(3): 701-728. DOI:10.1086/505067. Licensed Access.
Smith, Jeffrey A., and P.E. Todd. 2005. "Does Matching Overcome Lalonde's Critique of Nonexperimental Estimators?" Journal of Econometrics, 125:305-353. DOI:10.1016/j.jeconom.2004.04.011. Licensed Access.
Smith, Jeffrey A., and P. Todd. 2005. "Rejoinder." Journal of Econometrics, 125:365-375. DOI:10.1016/j.jeconom.2004.04.013. Licensed Access.
Black, Dan, Daniel Kermit, and Jeffrey A. Smith. 2005. "College Quality and Wages in the United States." German Economic Review, 6(3): 415-443. DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0475.2005.00140.x. Licensed Access.
Black, D.A., and Jeffrey A. Smith. 2004. "How Robust Is the Evidence on the Effects of College Quality? Evidence From Matching." Journal of Econometrics, 121:99-124.
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