Michael Lechner

Institution: Universität St. Gallen

Primary Field: Labor (weighted toward more recent publications)

Homepage: http://www.michael-lechner.eu

First Publication: 1995

Most Recent: 2025

Publication Scores

Scores use coauthorship adjustment: α/n credit per paper, where n = number of authors. α = 2.02: calibrated so average adjusted count equals average raw count (a zero-sum adjustment).

Period	A (2x)	B (1x)	C (½x)	Total	Percentile
Last 5 Years	1.35	2.35	0.59	4.29	78%
Last 10 Years	8.41	7.06	1.60	17.07	96%
All Time	21.86	18.16	2.86	42.89	97%

Publication Statistics

Raw Publications 40

Coauthorship-Adjusted Count 34.83

Publications (40)

Year	Article	Journal	Tier	Authors
2025	Active labor market policies for the long-term unemployed: New evidence from causal machine learning	Labour Economics	B	4
2023	Priority to unemployed immigrants? A causal machine learning evaluation of training in Belgium	Labour Economics	B	3
2023	Rot‐Jaune‐Verde: On linguistic bias of referees in Swiss soccer	Kyklos	C	3
2023	Do local expenditures on sports facilities affect sports participation?	Economic Inquiry	C	4
2022	Heterogeneous Employment Effects of Job Search Programs: A Machine Learning Approach	Journal of Human Resources	A	3
2021	Machine learning estimation of heterogeneous causal effects: Empirical Monte Carlo evidence	The Econometrics Journal	B	3
2021	Individual labor market effects of local public expenditures on sports	Labour Economics	B	4
2020	Does the estimation of the propensity score by machine learning improve matching estimation? The case of Germany's programmes for long term unemployed	Labour Economics	B	4
2020	For better or worse? – The effects of physical education on child development	Labour Economics	B	3
2020	Sorting in the used-car market after the Volkswagen emission scandal	Journal of Environmental Economics and Management	A	2
2020	The Finite Sample Performance of Inference Methods for Propensity Score Matching and Weighting Estimators	Journal of Business & Economic Statistics	A	4
2020	Endogeneity and non‐response bias in treatment evaluation – nonparametric identification of causal effects by instruments	Journal of Applied Econometrics	B	4
2018	The effects of incentives to exercise on student performance in college	Economics of Education Review	B	3
2018	Midweek Effect on Soccer Performance: Evidence from the German Bundesliga	Economic Inquiry	C	2
2017	Payment Evasion	Journal of Industrial Economics	A	3
2017	First in first win: Evidence on schedule effects in round-robin tournaments in mega-events	European Economic Review	B	2
2017	Heterogeneous sports participation and labour market outcomes in England	Applied Economics	C	2
2017	Why Do Tougher Caseworkers Increase Employment? The Role of Program Assignment as a Causal Mechanism	Review of Economics and Statistics	A	3
2016	Mozart or Pelé? The effects of adolescents' participation in music and sports	Labour Economics	B	3
2016	After-school care and parents' labor supply	Labour Economics	B	3
2016	The Finite Sample Performance of Estimators for Mediation Analysis Under Sequential Conditional Independence	Journal of Business & Economic Statistics	A	3
2015	Combining Matching and Nonparametric Instrumental Variable Estimation: Theory and An Application to the Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policies	Journal of Applied Econometrics	B	2
2015	Workplace health promotion and labour market performance of employees	Journal of Health Economics	B	3
2015	Labor market effects of sports and exercise: Evidence from Canadian panel data	Labour Economics	B	2
2013	Does the Order and Timing of Active Labour Market Programmes Matter?	Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics	B	2
2013	The performance of estimators based on the propensity score	Journal of Econometrics	A	3
2013	Sensitivity of matching-based program evaluations to the availability of control variables	Labour Economics	B	2
2011	Kids or courses? Gender differences in the effects of active labor market policies	Journal of Population Economics	B	2
2011	The effect of disability on labour market outcomes in Germany	Applied Economics	C	2
2011	Does leaving welfare improve health? Evidence for Germany	Health Economics	B	3
2009	Long-run labour market and health effects of individual sports activities	Journal of Health Economics	B	1
2009	Are Training Programs More Effective When Unemployment Is High?	Journal of Labor Economics	A	2
2008	What Did All the Money Do? On the General Ineffectiveness of Recent West German Labour Market Programmes	Kyklos	C	2
2007	What is the value added by caseworkers?	Labour Economics	B	2
2005	Does subsidised temporary employment get the unemployed back to work? Aneconometric analysis of two different schemes	Labour Economics	B	3
2002	An evaluation of public employment programmes in the East German State of Sachsen-Anhalt	Labour Economics	B	2
2002	Program Heterogeneity And Propensity Score Matching: An Application To The Evaluation Of Active Labor Market Policies	Review of Economics and Statistics	A	1
2000	An Evaluation of Public-Sector-Sponsored Continuous Vocational Training Programs in East Germany	Journal of Human Resources	A	1
1998	Convenient estimators for the panel probit model	Journal of Econometrics	A	2
1995	Tax Illusion and Labour Supply of Married Women: Evidence from German Data	Kyklos	C	4