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Professor Dr. Markus Frölich Januar 31, 2014

Chair of Econometrics froelich@uni-mannheim.de

Universität Mannheim Tel. ++49 - 621 - 181 3647

L7, 3-5 Fax ++49 - 621 - 181 1931

68131 Mannheim, Germany froelich.vwl.uni-mannheim.de

CURRICULUM VITAE

Current positions:

- Professor, Chair of Econometrics, Universität Mannheim, Germany

- Visiting Professor, Universität St.Gallen, Switzerland, since 04/2010

- Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA, Bonn)

- Research Associate, Center for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim

- Research Fellow, Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation (IFAU), Uppsala, Sweden

- Research Fellow, Swiss Institute for Empirical Economic Research, Universität St.Gallen

Personal details:

05.05.1973 Born in Hamm (Westfalen), Germany,

married, one child, German citizenship

Employment record:

03/2008 - 07/2011 Director, Research programme Employment and Development,

Joint research programme of the World Bank and the Institute for

the Study of Labor (IZA, Bonn)

since 01/2008 Full Professor, Chair of Econometrics, Universität Mannheim,

Germany

04/2005 - 12/2007 Assistant Professor and Consultant for Empirical Economic Re-

search, Universität St.Gallen, Switzerland

09/2004 - 09/2005 Marie Curie Individual Fellowship, University College London

(UCL)

04/2004 - 09/2004 Consultant for Empirical Economic Research, Universität

St.Gallen

10/2002 - 09/2004 Lecturer at the Universität St.Gallen (Lehrbeauftragter)

10/2002 - 12/2007 Senior Research Fellow at the Swiss Institute for International

Economics and Applied Economic Research (SIAW), St.Gallen

10/1998 - 10/2002 Research Fellow, SIAW

Education:

10/2002 PhD in Economics and Econometrics, Universität St.Gallen,

Thesis: ‘Programme Evaluation and Treatment Choice’,

Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Michael Lechner, Prof. Dr. Alex Keel

10/1995 - 08/1998 Diplom-Volkswirt (Master in Economics), Universität Konstanz,

Germany, Grade 1.2, Diploma thesis ‘Semiparametric estimation

of selectivity models’, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Winfried Pohlmeier

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Awards and Fellowships:

06/2007 Latsis Price (25000 CHF).

10/2004 - 09/2005 Marie Curie Individual Fellowship, MEIF-CT-2004-006873,

EVALEDUC, Microeconometric Evaluation of Educational Sys-

tems. (88% of all proposals for the Call FP6-2002-Mobility-5

were rejected.)

External Funding for Research Projects / Team Leader / Principal Investigator:

01/2014 - 12/2017 German Research Foundation (DFG), Projects B5 and B7 of the

Special Research Area Sonderforschungsbereich SFB 884 (The

Political Economy of Reforms)

11/2013 - 01/2014 3ie, International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, Global Devel-

opment Network (GDN), 'Preparation Grant under Agricultural

Innovation Window'

09/2013 - 02/2014 International Labour Organization (ILO, South Africa), 'Impact

assessment of the entrepreneurship education program in Free

State Province, South Africa'

12/2011 - 08/2013 KFW Entwicklungsbank (Frankfurt), 'Education in Mali'

08/2011 - 12/2013 International Labour Organization (ILO, Genf), 'Impact assess-

ment of Microfinance for Decent Work action research'

08/2010 - 04/2011 United Nations World Food Programme Ethiopia (WFP), United

Nations, 'Impact evaluation of school feeding in Ethiopia'

01/2010 - 12/2013 German Research Foundation (DFG), 'Robust methods for the

evaluation of policy reforms', Project B5 of the Special Research

Area Sonderforschungsbereich SFB 884 (The Political Economy

of Reforms)

10/2009 - 12/2012 GTZ Philippines, 'Evaluation of MIPSS in the Philippines: Evalu-

ating the social impact of microinsurance products'

07/2009 - 01/2012 Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development

(BMZ, Germany), 'Working together for market access: strength-

ening rural producer organizations in Sub-Saharan Africa', joint

project of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI,

Washington), the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) and the

University of Hohenheim

01/2010 - 12/2011 Swedish Research Council "Vetenskapsrådet", 'Competition be-

tween public schools in Sweden'

01/2009 - 12/2011 Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) / World Bank, 'Impact

evaluation and labour markets in Africa'

12/2006 - 12/2007 Richard Büchner Foundation, 'Health and underdevelopment in

Eastern Africa'

09/2004 - 08/2007 Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (seco), 'Statistically

assisted programme selection - Statistisch assistierte

Programmselektion - Pilotstudie'

04/2004 - 12/2006 Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, 'Counselling strate-

gies, office management and the efficacy of labour market poli-

cies - Der Einfluss betrieblicher Prozesse auf die Effektivität

arbeitsmarktlicher Massnahmen'

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10/2004 - 09/2005 European Commission, Marie Curie Individual Fellowship, 'Mi-

croeconometric Evaluation of Educational Systems', MEIF-CT-

2004-006873, EVALEDUC

11/2004 - 02/2005 World Bank, IDA Credit No. 3753-YF, 'Technical Assistance for

the Provision of Training on the Evaluation of Active Labour

Market Programmes', Republic of Serbia, Contract No. SaM-EPP-

CQ-006-S-04-3753YF

10/2003 - 07/2004 Grundlagenforschungsfonds HSG, 'Evaluation of schools and

school competition', Grant G02110112

05/2002 - 11/2002 Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, 'Studie zum Nutzen

und zur Durchführbarkeit einer statistisch assistierten Programm-

selektion'

10/2000 - 09/2003 Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), 'Microeconometric

evaluation of labour market policies', Grant SNF 4043-058311

Languages:

German: mother tongue

English: fluent

Romanian: advanced

Spanish: beginner

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PROFESSIONAL ACADEMIC SERVICES

Editorial Boards:

since 2012 Associate Editor, IZA World of Labor

since 2012 Associate Editor, IZA Journal of Labor & Development

2011 Editor, Labour Economics Special Issue, Labour markets in de-

veloping countries

since 2010 Associate Editor, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics

(JBES)

since 2009 Co-Editor, Labour Economics

since 2009 Associate Editor, Empirical Economics

Organization of Conferences and Workshops (Organizing and Scientific Committee):

- SFB 884 Research Conference "Evaluation of Political Reforms", Mannheim, 12-14 De-

cember 2012

- Research Workshop on Microinsurance, Mannheim, 7 December 2012, joint with Munich

Re Foundation

- Research Conference on Microinsurance, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands, 11-

13 April 2012

- IZA/World Bank Policy Forum: "Social Insurance and Smarter Labor Regulations", Mexico

City, Mexico, 1 June 2011

- Third IZA Workshop "Child Labor in Developing Countries", Mexico City, Mexico, 1 June

2011

- Sixth IZA/World Bank Annual Conference "Employment and Development", Mexico City,

Mexico, 30-31 May 2011

- Joint workshop of IZA, DIW, DIW DC and World Bank "German Day on Development",

Washington DC, 3 November 2010

- Fifth IZA/World Bank Annual Conference "Employment and Development", Cape Town

South Africa, 3-4 May 2010

- Joint workshop of IZA, DIW, DIW DC and World Bank "German Day on Development",

Washington DC, 21 October 2009

- IZA Postgraduate workshop on development economics, Bonn, 7-8 October 2009

- IZA/World Bank/BMZ/GTZ Policy Forum "Searching for Answers: The Labor Market Pol-

icy Response to the Global Financial and Economic Crisis with Special Reference to Devel-

oping Countries", Bonn, 6 May 2009

- Fourth IZA/World Bank Annual Conference "Employment and Development", Bonn, 4-5

May 2009

- Second IZA workshop "Child Labor in Developing Countries", Bonn, 6 May 2009

- IZA/World Bank conference "Evaluation of Labor Market Programs in Developing Coun-

tries", Bonn, 20-21 February 2009

- Joint workshop of IZA, DIW, DIW DC and World Bank "German Day on Development",

Washington DC, 3 December 2008

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Organization of Conferences and Workshops (Member of Scientific Committee):

- 9th IZA/World Bank Annual Conference "Employment and Development", Lima, Peru, 25-

26 June 2014, Member of Scientific Committee

- Econometric Society European Meeting (ESEM), Toulouse, 25-29 August 2014, Member of

Programme Committee

- 8th IZA/World Bank Annual Conference "Employment and Development", Bonn, Germany,

22-24 August 2013, Member of Scientific Committee

- Verein für Socialpolitik Annual Conference, Düsseldorf, 4-7 September 2013, Reviewer for

the Scientific Committee

- Econometric Society European Meeting (ESEM), Gothenburg, 26-30 August 2013, Member

of Programme Committee

- 7th IZA/World Bank Annual Conference "Employment and Development", New Delhi, In-

dia, 5-6 November 2012, Member of Scientific Committee

- EC2 Conference, Maastricht, 14-15 December 2012, Member of Programme Committee

- Econometric Society European Meeting (ESEM), Málaga, 27-31 August 2012, Member of

Programme Committee

- Health and Human Capital, 21-22 July 2011, Centre for European Economic Research

(ZEW), Mannheim, Member of Scientific Committee

- Verein für Socialpolitik Annual Conference, Frankfurt, 3-7 September 2011, Reviewer for

the Scientific Committee

- Evaluation of Policies fighting Social Exclusion, 21-23 January 2010, Centre for European

Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim, Member of Scientific Committee

- Verein für Socialpolitik Annual Conference, Madgeburg, 8-11 September 2009, Reviewer

for the Scientific Committee

- Third IZA/World Bank Annual Conference "Employment and Development", Rabat, Mo-

rocco, 5-6 May 2008, Member of Scientific Committee

- Verein für Socialpolitik Annual Conference, München, 9-12 October 2007, Reviewer for the

Scientific Committee

Referee for Academic Journals and Publishers:

- American Economic Review, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American

Journal of Experimental Agriculture, Applied Economics Quarterly, Bulletin of Economic

Research, Econometrica, Econometrics Journal, Econometric Reviews, Econometric Theo-

ry, Economic Journal, Economics Letters, Economics of Transition, Empirical Economics,

European Economic Review, European Journal of Political Economy, Finanzarchiv, German

Economic Review, IZA World of Labor, Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik,

Journal of American Statistical Association, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of

Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Econo-

metrics, Journal of Economics and Statistics, Journal of European Economic Association,

Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Political Economy,

Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Royal Statistical Society Series A, Series B,

Series C, Labour Economics, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Portuguese Eco-

nomic Journal, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Research in Labor Economics, Review of

Economics and Statistics, Review of Economic Studies, Scandinavian Journal of Econom-

ics, Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, Statistical Methodology, Survey Research Methods,

Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics.

- Cambridge University Press, Harvard University Press, Oxford University Press, John

Wiley.

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Advisor to Research Councils and Related Institutions:

Member of the Technical Advisory Group of the Multidonor Trust Fund Project on “Labor

Markets, Job Creation, and Economic Growth”, World Bank, since May 2008

Referee for the Agence Nationale de la Recherche France, German Research Foundation

(DFG), German-Israeli-Foundation, International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie),

IZA/DFID Growth and Labour Markets in Low Income Countries Programme (GLM|LIC),

Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), Heinrich Hertz Stiftung, Fritz Thyssen Stiftung,

Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO, Vici scheme), Social Sciences and

Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)

Referee for the German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch

Dienst, DAAD), Haniel Foundation, Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, Innovations-

preis des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen 2012

Advisor to the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), Kenya:

- External Examination of Master and PhD course in econometrics, Collaborative MA pro-

gramme (CMAP) and Collaborative PhD programme (CPP), August 2010 to April 2011,

August 2011 to April 2012, August 2012 to April 2013

- Teaching Advanced Time Series Econometrics, lectures and exam, Collaborative PhD pro-

gramme (CPP), Nairobi, 3-27 July 2006

- External Examination of Master course in labour economics, Collaborative MA pro-

gramme (CMAP), Nairobi, 3-17 October 2005

- Teaching Advanced Microeconometrics, lectures and exam, Collaborative PhD programme

(CPP), Nairobi, 3-17 October 2005

- Subject Specialist Workshop in econometrics, Masters and PhD level, Nairobi, 20-22 June

2005

- External Examination of Master course in labour economics, Collaborative MA pro-

gramme (CMAP), Nairobi, 28-31 October 2004

- Subject Specialist Workshop in labour economics, Masters and PhD level, Nairobi, 22-24

June 2004

- Development of Course Outline for PhD course in labour economics, Collaborative PhD

programme (CPP), February 2004

Developing countries where Impact Evaluations have been conducted or are ongoing:

Ethiopia School feeding, in collaboration with World Food Programme

Philippines Microinsurance, in collaboration with GIZ (Germany)

Uganda Rural cooperatives, in collaboration with IFPRI

Senegal Rural cooperatives, in collaboration with IFPRI

Nigeria Microfinance, in collaboration with ILO

Pakistan Health insurance, in collaboration with ILO

Mali Training, in collaboration with ILO

Uganda Microinsurance, in collaboration with ILO

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Philippines Entrepreneurship, in collaboration with ILO

Cambodia Financial education, in collaboration with ILO

Vietnam Financial education, in collaboration with ILO

Peru Microinsurance, in collaboration with ILO

Honduras Health insurance, in collaboration with ILO

Burkina Faso Enterprise management, in collaboration with ILO

India Formalization, in collaboration with ILO

Jordan Awareness raising, in collaboration with ILO

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PUBLICATIONS

Monographies/Books:

- FRÖLICH, SPERLICH (2014): Impact evaluation, forthcoming at Cambridge University Press

- FRÖLICH, KAPLAN, PAGÉS, RIGOLINI, ROBALINO (2014): Social Security, Informal Sector,

and Employment in Middle Income Countries: How to Protect Workers While Creating

Good Jobs, edited volume, forthcoming at Oxford University Press

- FRÖLICH (2003): Programme Evaluation and Treatment Choice, Lecture Notes in Econom-

ics and Mathematical Systems, Vol. 524. Heidelberg: Springer. ISBN: 3-540-44328-2

(PhD thesis)

- FRÖLICH (2002): Semiparametric Estimation of Selectivity Models, New York: Nova Sci-

ence Publishers, ISBN: 1-59033-277-6

Articles in Refereed Scientific Journals:

[36] FRÖLICH, HUBER (2014): Treatment evaluation with multiple outcome periods under en-

dogeneity and attrition, forthcoming in Journal of American Statistical Association

[35] WONDRATSCHEK, EDMARK, FRÖLICH (2013): The Short- and Long-term Effects of

School Choice on Student Outcomes – Evidence from a School Choice Reform in Sweden,

Annales d'Economie et de Statistique (Annals of Economics and Statistics), 111/112, 71-

101. (Long version as IZA Discussion Paper 7898, 2014.)

[34] FRÖLICH, MELLY (2013): Unconditional quantile treatment effects under endogeneity,

Journal of Business & Economic Statistics (JBES), 31:3, 346-357

[33] VOLLAN, PREDIGER, FRÖLICH (2013): Co-managing common pool resources: Do formal

rules have to be adapted to traditional ecological norms?, Ecological Economics, 95, 51-62

[32] FRÖLICH, MELLY (2013): Identification of treatment effects on the treated with one-sided

non-compliance, Econometric Reviews, 32:3, 384-414

[31] BALKENHOL, FRÖLICH, KEMPER, RICHTER (2012): Enhancing Clients’ Livelihoods: De-

sign, Implementation and Impact Evaluation of decent Work Innovations in Microfinance,

Swiss Journal of Business Research and Practice, 66:4, 371-386

[30] FRANDSEN, FRÖLICH, MELLY (2012): Quantile treatment effects in the regression discon-

tinuity design, Journal of Econometrics, 168 (2), 382-395

[29] FRÖLICH, HAILE (2011): Labour markets in developing countries, Labour Economics,

Volume 18, Supplement 1, Pages S2-S6 (December 2011)

[28] PREDIGER, VOLLAN, FRÖLICH (2011): The impact of culture and ecology on cooperation

in a common-pool resource experiment, Ecological Economics, 70, 1599-1608

[27] FRÖLICH, MICHAELOWA (2011): Peer Effects and Textbooks in African Primary Educa-

tion, Labour Economics, 18, 474-486

[26] FRÖLICH, LECHNER (2010): Exploiting regional treatment intensity for the evaluation of

labour market policies, Journal of American Statistical Association, 105 (491), 1014-1029

[25] BEHNCKE, FRÖLICH, LECHNER (2010): A caseworker like me - does the similarity be-

tween the unemployed and their caseworkers increase job placements?, Economic Journal,

120, 549, December, 1430-1459

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[24] FRÖLICH, MELLY (2010): Estimation of quantile treatment effects with STATA, Stata

Journal, 10 (3), 423-457

[23] VOLLAN, PREDIGER, FRÖLICH (2010): The influence of collective property rights on graz-

ing management in a semi-arid region, African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Eco-

nomics (AfJARE), Vol.5(2), 372-401

[22] BEHNCKE, FRÖLICH, LECHNER (2010): Unemployed and their caseworkers - should they

be friends or foes?, Journal of Royal Statistical Society, A173, 67-92

[21] BOURDON, FRÖLICH, MICHAELOWA (2010): Teacher Shortages, Teacher Contracts and

their Impact on Education in Africa, Journal of Royal Statistical Society, A173, 93-116

[20] BEHNCKE, FRÖLICH, LECHNER (2009): Targeting labour market programmes - Results

from a randomized experiment, Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 145, 221-268

[19] FRÖLICH, VAZQUEZ-ALVAREZ (2009): HIV/AIDS Knowledge and behaviour: Have in-

formation campaigns reduced HIV infection? The case of Kenya, African Development

Review, 21 (1), 86-146

[18] FRÖLICH (2008): Statistical treatment choice: an application to active labor market pro-

grams, Journal of American Statistical Association, 103, 547-558

[17] FRÖLICH (2008): Parametric and nonparametric regression in the presence of endogenous

control variables, International Statistical Review, 76 (2), 214-227

[16] BEHNCKE, FRÖLICH, LECHNER (2008): Public employment services and employers: how

important are networks with firms?, Journal of Business Economics, special issue 1/2008,

151-178

[15] FRÖLICH (2007): Propensity score matching without conditional independence assump-

tion - with an application to the gender wage gap in the UK, Econometrics Journal, 10,

359-407

[14] Frölich (2007): Nonparametric IV estimation of local average treatment effects with co-

variates, Journal of Econometrics, 139, 35-75

[13] Frölich (2007): On the inefficiency of propensity score matching, Advances in Statistical

Analysis (AStA), 91, 279-290

[12] FRÖLICH (2006): Nonparametric regression for binary dependent variables, Econometrics

Journal, 9 (3), 511-540

[11] FRÖLICH (2006): Semiparametric estimation of conditional mean functions with missing

data - combining parametric moments with matching, Empirical Economics, 31 (2), 333-

367

[10] BEHNCKE, FRÖLICH, LECHNER (2006): Aktive Arbeitsmarktpolitik in Deutschland und der

Schweiz - eine Gegenüberstellung, Quarterly Journal of Economic Research, 75 (3), 118-

154

[9] BEHNCKE, FRÖLICH, LECHNER (2006): Statistical Assistance for Programme Selection -

For a Better Targeting of Active Labour Market Policies in Switzerland, Journal for Insti-

tutional Comparisons, CESifo DICE, 4(2), 61-68

[8] FRÖLICH (2005): Matching estimators and optimal bandwidth choice, Statistics and Com-

puting, 15 (3), 197-215

[7] FRÖLICH (2004): Finite sample properties of propensity-score matching and weighting

estimators, Review of Economics and Statistics, 86(1), 77-90

[6] FRÖLICH (2004): A note on the role of the propensity score for estimating average treat-

ment effects, Econometric Reviews, 23(2), 167-174

[5] FRÖLICH, HESHMATI, LECHNER (2004): A microeconometric evaluation of rehabilitation of

long-term sickness in Sweden, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 19, 375-396

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[4] FRÖLICH (2004): Programme evaluation with multiple treatments, Journal of Economic

Surveys, 18, 181-224

[3] FRÖLICH, PUHANI (2004): Developing an immigration policy for Germany on the basis of

a nonparametric labor market classification, Advances in Statistical Analysis (AStA), 88, 1-

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[2] FRÖLICH, LECHNER, STEIGER (2003): Statistically assisted programme selection – interna-

tional experiences and potential benefits for Switzerland, Swiss Journal of Economics and

Statistics, 139, 311-331

[1] FRÖLICH, HESHMATI, LECHNER (2000): Mikroökonometrische Evaluierung berufsbe-

zogener Rehabilitation in Sweden, Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 136, 433-

461

Contributions to Books:

[8] FRÖLICH, LECHNER, STEIGER (2012): Arbeitsmarktliche Beratung mithilfe von statisti-

schen Prognosen – Auswahl von Massnahmen, in Prognoserechnung, 7th edition, Mertens,

P. and S. Rässler (eds.), Heidelberg: Physica, Ch. 25, 573-584

[7] FRÖLICH (2010): Quantitative nicht-experimentelle Designs, in Verfahren der Wirkungs-

analyse. Ein Handbuch für die entwicklungspolitische Praxis, Oberndörfer D., Hanf, T.

and H. Weiland (eds.), Freiburg: Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut, 167-180, ISBN: 978-3-

928597-54-8

[6] BEHNCKE, FRÖLICH, LECHNER (2010): Strumenti statistici per migliorare il targeting delle

politiche attive: l’ esperienza della Svizzera, in Politiche attive del lavoro, servizi per

l’impiego e valutazione – Esperienze e percorsi in Italia e in Europa, Cantalupi M. and M.

Demurtas (eds.), Bologna: Il Mulino, 241-262, ISBN: 978-88-15-13385-4

[5] LECHNER, BEHNCKE, FRÖLICH (2007): Die Wirkung aktiver Arbeitsmarktpolitik in der

Schweiz – Ergebnisse aus verschiedenen Evaluationsstudien von 2002 bis 2006, in Ar-

beitsmarkt 2010 - Chance für alle?, Bolt, C. Ineichen, T. and P. Schnüriger (eds.), Zü-

rich/Chur: Rüegger, 117-127, ISBN: 978-3-7253-0869-9

[4] BOURDON, FRÖLICH, MICHAELOWA (2006): Broadening Access to Primary Education:

Contract Teacher Programs and their Impact on Education Outcomes in Africa – An Econ-

ometric Evaluation for the Republic of Niger, in Pro-Poor Growth: Policy and Evidence,

Menkhoff, L. (eds.), Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 117-149, ISBN: 978-3-428-12361-2

[3] FRÖLICH, LECHNER, STEIGER (2005): Welche arbeitsmarktliche Massnahme für wen? Erste

Schritte zu einer statistisch assistierten Programmselektion, in Forum Bildung und Be-

schäftigung, Vol 1, Chaponnière, M., Flückiger, Y., Hotz-Hart, B., Osterwalder, F., Shel-

don, G. and K. Weber (eds.), Zürich/Chur: Rüegger, 135-145, ISBN: 3-7253-0799-7

[2] FRÖLICH, LECHNER, STEIGER (2005): Beratung mithilfe von statistischen Prognosen. Wel-

ches Instrument ist das sinnvollste?, in Prognoserechnung, 6th

edition, Mertens, P. and S.

Rässler (eds.), Heidelberg: Physica, Ch. 24, 449-458, ISBN: 3-7908-0216-6

[1] FRÖLICH (2004): Design and Analysis of Evaluation Studies (2004), in Bulletin of the In-

ternational Statistical Institute 54th

Session Proceedings, Volume LX, Book 3

Reports:

- FRÖLICH, BRANISA, BARBA (2013): Mobile schools for nomads in the Niger Delta region of

Mali, Final report for the KfW Entwicklungsbank, October 2013

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- FRÖLICH, KEMPER, POPPE, BREDA, RICHTER (2012): Microfinance and risk management:

Impact assessment of a financial education programme, AMK Cambodia, Social Finance

Programme (ILO) and Mannheim University, 2012

- FRÖLICH, KEMPER, POPPE, BREDA, RICHTER (2012): Microfinance and risk management:

Impact assessment of an integrated risk management and microinsurance client training,

TYM Vietnam, Social Finance Programme (ILO) and Mannheim University, 2012

- FRÖLICH, KEMPER, POPPE, BREDA, RICHTER (2012): Microfinance and risk management: An

impact assessment of an emergency fund, NWTF Philippines, Social Finance Programme

(ILO) and Mannheim University, 2012

- FRÖLICH, KEMPER, POPPE, BREDA, RICHTER (2012): Microfinance and risk management: An

impact assessment of an entrepreneurship training, NWTF Philippines, Social Finance

Programme (ILO) and Mannheim University, 2012

- FRÖLICH, KEMPER, POPPE, BREDA, RICHTER (2012): Microfinance and risk management:

Microfinance and risk management: An impact assessment of a client training on financial

ducation, VisionFund Cambodia, Social Finance Programme (ILO) and Mannheim Uni-

ersity, 2012

- FRÖLICH, LANDMANN, MIDKIFF, BREDA (2012): Micro-insurance and Child Labour: An im-

pact evaluation of National Rural Support Programme’s micro-insurance innovation, So-

cial Finance Programme (ILO) and Mannheim University, 2012

- FRÖLICH, LANDMANN, MIDKIFF, VAN DOORN (2012): School Fee Loans, Awareness and

Child Labour: An impact evaluation of LAPO Microfinance Bank Limited’s School Sup-

port Initiative, Social Finance Programme (ILO) and Mannheim University, 2012

- FRÖLICH, LANDMANN, POPPE, UNTE, VAN DOORN, MIDKIFF (2012): Améliorer les conditions

de travail et la productivité en milieu agricole pour réduire le travail des enfants: Etude

d’impact, Social Finance Programme (ILO) and Mannheim University, 2012

- FRÖLICH, OLAPADE, BREDA, DEBOOS, MATHEW (2012): Microfinance and Formalisation of

Enterprises in the Informal Sector: Awareness raising campaign and BDS for the formali-

sation and strengthening of growth-oriented enterprises, SHRAM JYOTI - ‘Upholding the

Spirit of Labour’, Social Finance Programme (ILO) and Mannheim University, 2012

- FRÖLICH, OLAPADE, VAN DOORN, DEBOOS (2012): La formalisation des entreprises de

l’informel: Une étude d’impact sur la Formation et Sensibilisation à la formalisation des

entreprises du secteur informel - RCPB au Burkina Faso, Social Finance Programme (ILO)

and Mannheim University, 2012

- HAILE, POPPE, FRÖLICH (2011): School Meals Programme in Ethiopia: A Mixed-methods

Based Impact Study, Final Evaluation Report, United Nations World Food Programme

Ethiopia (WFP), 8.3.2011

- FRÖLICH, VOLLAN, OLAPADE, LANDMANN (2010): Complementary Demand Study for

MIPSS Philippines, Report, 17.3.2010

- BEHNCKE, FRÖLICH, LECHNER (2007): Pilotprojekt Statistisch assistierte Programmselektion,

Report for the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (seco)

www.seco.admin.ch/dokumentation/publikation/00004/00005/index.html?lang=de

- FRÖLICH, LECHNER, BEHNCKE, HAMMER, SCHMIDT, MENEGALE, LEHMANN, ITEN (2007):

Einfluss der Rav auf die Wiedereingliederung von Stellensuchenden, Report for the Swiss

State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (seco), SECO Publikation, Arbeitsmarktpolitik No

20 (1.2007), 814 pages

www.seco.admin.ch/dokumentation/publikation/00004/00005/index.html?lang=de

- FRÖLICH, LECHNER, BEHNCKE, STEIGER, HAMMER, SCHMIDT, MENEGALE, LEHMANN, ITEN

(2007): Influence des ORP sur la reinsertion des demandeurs d’emploi, Report for the

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Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (seco), SECO Publikation, Arbeitsmarktpoli-

tik No 20

www.seco.admin.ch/dokumentation/publikation/00004/00005/index.html?lang=fr

- FRÖLICH, LECHNER, PUHANI (2005): Manual on the Evaluation of Active Labour Market

Policies in Serbia, Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Policy, Republic of Serbia,

February 2005

- FRÖLICH, LECHNER, STEIGER (2003): Mikroökonometrische Evaluation aktiver Arbeits-

marktpolitik, Report for the Swiss National Science Foundation, December 2003

- FRÖLICH, LECHNER, STEIGER (2002): Studie zum Nutzen and zur Durchführbarkeit einer

statistisch assistierten Programmselektion (SAPS), Report for the Swiss State Secretariat

for Economic Affairs (seco), November 2002, 206 pages

Publications in Non-Refereed Journals and Magazines:

- BOURDON, FRÖLICH, MICHAELOWA (2009): Contract Teachers, Primary Education and Stu-

dent Performance in Africa, DIW DC annual report 2008, 37-46

- BEHNCKE, FRÖLICH, LECHNER (2008): RAV-Personalberatung: Pilotstudie zur statistisch

assistierten Programmselektion, Die Volkswirtschaft, 4-2008, 42-45

- BEHNCKE, FRÖLICH, LECHNER (2008): Le projet pilote d’assistance statistique pour la sélec-

tion de programmes destiné aux conseillers ORP, La Vie économique, 4-2008, 42-45

- FRÖLICH (2008): Impact evaluation, causal effects, labour market and education policies,

Présentation des Travaux des Quatre Lauréats, Fondation Latsis Internationale, 27, 3-11

- BEHNCKE, FRÖLICH, LECHNER, HAMMER, ITEN (2007): Einfluss der RAV auf die Wiederein-

gliederung von Stellensuchenden, Die Volkswirtschaft, 4-2007, 49-51

- BEHNCKE, FRÖLICH, LECHNER, HAMMER, ITEN (2007): L’influence des ORP sur la réinser-

tion des demandeurs d’emploi, La Vie économique, 4-2007, 49-51

- FRÖLICH, LECHNER, STEIGER (2004): Mikroökonometrische Evaluation aktiver Arbeits-

marktpolitik, Nationales Forschungsprogramm 43: Bildung and Beschäftigung, Synthesis

16, Schweizerische Koordinationsstelle für Bildungsforschung, Aarau, ISBN: 3-908117-

84-4

- FRÖLICH, LECHNER, STEIGER (2003): Neues Auswahlinstrument steigert Wirksamkeit, Pano-

rama 2/2003, 38-39

- FRÖLICH (2003): Die RAV sind im Schnitt nicht erfolgreich, Cash, 2.5.2003, p. 30

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TEACHING AND STUDENT SUPERVISION

Lectures/courses:

- University of Mannheim and University of St.Gallen: Courses in applied and theoretical

econometrics in German and English language for Bachelor/Master/Diploma and PhD stu-

dents, including Applied Econometrics and Statistics, Applied Time Series Econometrics

in Finance and Economics, Data Analysis with EViews, Gauss and Stata, Econometrics III,

Empirical Labour Economics, Impact Evaluation, Treatment Effects, Causal Analysis,

Mathematics for Economists, Microeconometrics, Panel Econometrics

- University of Mannheim: Courses in development economics in German and English lan-

guage

PhD Summer schools and courses at other Universities:

- Universität St.Gallen: Advanced Microeconometrics: Lectures and exam, St.Gallen, Swit-

zerland, 5-14 June 2013

- Tübingen Hohenheim Christmas Workshop, Hohenheim, 30 November-1 December, 2012

- Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI) and Addis Ababa University (AAU):

Workshop on “Impact Evaluation”, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1-5 May 2011

- 11th ZEW Summer Workshop for Young Economists, New Perspectives in Empirical La-

bour Economics, „Impact Assessment“, Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW),

Mannheim, 13-16 July 2009

- Universitet Uppsala: Advanced Microeconometrics (in English): Lectures and exam, Uppsa-

la, Sweden, 12-16 November 2007

- AERC Nairobi: Advanced Time Series Econometrics (in English): Lectures, PC-exercises

and exam, Collaborative PhD programme (CPP) of the African Economic Research Consor-

tium (AERC), Nairobi, 3-27 Kenya July 2006

- AERC Nairobi: Advanced Microeconometrics (in English): Lectures, PC-exercises and ex-

am, Collaborative PhD programme (CPP) of the African Economic Research Consortium

(AERC), Nairobi, Kenya, 3-17 October 2005

- Universität zu Köln: Econometric Evaluation of Labour Market Programmes, junior lectu-

rer, September 2003, Zentralarchiv für Empirische Sozialforschung, Universität zu Köln

Lectures/courses outside University and other courses:

- Universität Mannheim: Ringvorlesung zur Entwicklungsökonomik, Schirmherrschaft, 2010

- Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Policy: Workshop on the Evaluation of Active

Labour Market Policies, Belgrade, Serbia, February 2-3, 2005

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Participation in the Development of Study Programmes

African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), Master Programme:

- Member of Team of Experts for Econometrics and Labour Economics

- External Examiner of Master course in Labour Economics

African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), PhD Programme:

- Development of Curriculum for PhD Labour Economics

- Member of Team of Experts for Econometrics and Labour Economics

Student supervision:

Supervision of PhD thesis as main supervisor:

- Andreas Landmann (Universität Mannheim), June 2013, Essays on Formal Insurance and

Informal Solidarity in Developing Countries

- Markus Olapade (Universität Mannheim), May 2013, Essays in Impact Evaluation for De-

velopment

- Verena Wondratschek (Universität Mannheim), December 2012, Essays on Skills, School

Choice and their Long-Term Consequences

- Robert Poppe (Universität Mannheim), December 2012, Essays in Development Economics

Participation in PhD Committees:

- Divya Parmar (Medizinische Fakultät, Universität Heidelberg), May 2012, Impact of com-

munity based health insurance on household assets in Burkina Faso: a panel data analysis

- Christoph Rothe (Universität Mannheim), Mai 2009, Essays in Non- and Semiparametric

Econometrics

- Susan Steiner (Universität Leipzig), Januar 2007, An Evaluation of the Impact of Decentral-

isation on Poverty – The Case of Uganda