Competence Centre on Microeconomic Evaluation (CC-ME)

We reconstruct the genealogical tree of all individuals ever appearing in Dutch municipalities records starting in 1995. Combining microdata from tax authorities with education records we...

Aims: To update a previous typology of British alcohol drinking occasions using a more recent and expanded dataset and a new modelling procedure. To estimate the average consumption level...

This brochure reports highlights of activities in 2023 of the European Commission's Competence Centre on Microeconomic Evaluation (CC-ME). CC-ME was founded on May 19, 2016 to support the evaluation...

Online health information seeking behavior (e-HISB) is becoming increasingly common and the trend has accelerated as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic when individuals strongly relied upon...

Communication through websites is often characterised by short texts, made of few words, such as image captions or tweets. This paper explores the class of supervised learning methods...

Ireland has reformed its public employment service over the years to streamline delivery and better focus its resources on helping jobseekers. Efficient support to jobseekers...

This document aims to provide a Toolbox for the use of Counterfactual Impact Evaluation (CIE) methods in the case of regional State aid interventions. In particular, it seeks to assist Member...

Exploiting admission thresholds for participating in Erasmus, the most popular higher education study abroad programme in Europe, we implement a regression discontinuity design and show that student...

As retirement ages increase around the world, not all workers may be equally able to extend their working lives. In this article, we examine the health...

Over three years since the first COVID-19 vaccine was approved, many countries still have suboptimal vaccination rates despite holding great amounts of vaccines...