method to investigate the sensitivity issue under the unconfoundedness assumption. We find that the estimates are not … speciously robust in the sense that the treatment effects are consistently overestimated or underestimated. Sensitivity checks …

sensitivity of estimated treatment effects with respect to unobserved heterogeneity or failure of the common support condition …

improving efficiency. …

there is a tradeoff as to efficiency and inequality with respect to services that are contracted to private companies in a …

. We conclude that the household efficiency does yield empirically falsifiable restrictions despite being scarcely rejected …

We study school choice and school efficiency in terms of secondary school completion test scores by utilizing a unique …'s expenditure as a determinant of its efficiency per unit of cost. We find that when expenditure is not included, the trust …-run school's position becomes sensitive to the level of expenditure, as it is the only school to exhibit sensitivity between …

and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the efficiency of domestic firms in the …

existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the efficiency of domestic firms in the host country … hypothesis that spillovers are greater for FDI with more advanced technology. While efficiency of domestic firms’ is affected by … firm’s "absorptive capacity" we find: i) distance from the efficiency frontier tends to dampen horizontal spillovers in …