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Statistical Tools for Program Evaluation Methods and Applications to Economic Policy, Public Health, and Education
Statistical Tools for Program Evaluation
Jean-Michel Josselin • Benoıˆt Le Maux
Statistical Tools for Program Evaluation Methods and Applications to Economic Policy, Public Health, and Education
Jean-Michel Josselin Faculty of Economics University of Rennes 1 Rennes, France
Benoıˆt Le Maux Faculty of Economics University of Rennes 1 Rennes, France
ISBN 978-3-319-52826-7 ISBN 978-3-319-52827-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-52827-4
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Acknowledgments
We would like to express our gratitude to those who helped us and made the completion of this book possible. First of all, we are deeply indebted to the Springer editorial team and particularly Martina BIHN whose support and encouragement allowed us to finalize this project. Furthermore, we have benefited from helpful comments by colleagues and we would like to acknowledge the help of Maurice BASLE´, Arthur CHARPENTIER, Pauline CHAUVIN, Salah GHABRI, and Christophe TAVE´RA. Of course, any mistake that may remain is our entire responsibility. In addition, we are grateful to our students who have been testing and experimenting our lectures for so many years. Parts of the material provided here have been taught at the Bachelor and Master levels, in France and abroad. Several students and former students have been helping us improve the book. We really appreciated their efforts and are very grateful to them: Erwan AUTIN, Benoıˆt ´ LOVA ´ , and
