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About the authors
Sascha O. Becker is Assistant Professor at the Center for Economic Studies (CES) at the
Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany. He is also affiliated with CESifo, ifo and
IZA.
Marco Caliendo is Senior Research Associate at the German Institute for Economic Research
(DIW Berlin) and Research Fellow of the IZA, Bonn and the IAB, Nuremberg, Germany.
Revised and improved versions of the programs may become available in the future on our web
pages (http://www.sobecker.de and http://www.caliendo.de).
Please address any correspondence to Sascha O. Becker ([email protected]) or Marco Caliendo
([email protected]).