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Treatment Effect Heterogeneity in Theory and Practice

Angrist, Joshua D. - 2003

Instrumental Variables (IV) methods identify internally valid causal effects for individuals whose treatment status is manipulable by the instrument at hand. Inference for other populations requires some sort of homogeneity assumption. This paper outlines a theoretical framework that nests all...

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Why Does Fast Loan Growth Predict Poor Performance for Banks?

Fahlenbrach, Rüdiger - 2016

From 1973 to 2014, the common stock of U.S. banks with loan growth in the top quartile of banks over a three-year period significantly underperforms the common stock of banks with loan growth in the bottom quartile over the next three years. The benchmark-adjusted cumulative difference in...

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Does Teacher Testing Raise Teacher Quality? Evidence from State Certification Requirements

Angrist, Joshua D. - 2003

The education reform movement includes efforts to raise teacher quality through stricter certification and licensing provisions. Most US states now require public school teachers to pass a standardized test such as the National Teacher Examination. Although any barrier to entry is likely to...

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Uber vs. Taxi : A Driver’s Eye View

Angrist, Joshua D. - 2017

Ride-hailing drivers pay a proportion of their fares to the ride-hailing platform operator, a commission-based compensation model used by many internet-mediated service providers. To Uber drivers, this commission is known as the Uber fee. By contrast, traditional taxi drivers in most US cities...

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Instrumental Variables Estimation of Quantile Treatment Effects

Abadie, Alberto - 1998

This paper introduces an instrumental variables estimator for the effect of a binary treatment on the quantiles of potential outcomes. The quantile treatment effects (QTE) estimator accommodates exogenous covariates and reduces to quantile regression as a special case when treatment status is...

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Non-Parametric Demand Analysis with an Application to the Demand for Fish

Angrist, Joshua D. - 1995

Instrumental variables (IV) estimation of a demand equation using time series data is shown to produce a weighted … derivative estimation to models with endogenous regressors. The paper also shows how to compute the weights underlying IV …

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The Effect of Veterans Benefits on Veterans' Education and Earnings

Angrist, Joshua D. - 1990

The majority of armed forces veterans make use of the subsidized training and educational benefits provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs. The effect of veterans benefits on educational attainment am civilian earnings is estimated here using the Census Bureau's 1987 Survey of Veterans....

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Impact Evaluation in Matching Markets with General Tie-Breaking

Abdulkadiroglu, Atila - 2017

Many centralized matching schemes incorporate a mix of random lottery and non-lottery tie-breaking. A leading example is the New York City public school district, which uses criteria like test scores and interviews to generate applicant rankings for some schools, combined with lottery...

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Maimonides Rule Redux

Angrist, Joshua D. - 2017

We use the discontinuous function of enrollment known as Maimonides Rule as an instrument for class size in large Israeli samples from 2002-2011. As in the 1991 data analyzed by Angrist and Lavy (1999), Maimonides Rule still has a strong first stage. In contrast with the earlier Israeli...

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Are Larger Banks Valued More Highly?

Minton, Bernadette A. - 2017

of a within-bank negative relation between valuation and size for large banks from 1987 to 2006 but not when the post …-Dodd-Frank period is included in the sample. The negative relation between bank value and bank size for large banks cannot be … Tobin's q lower by 0.2% in regressions with year and bank fixed effects. This relation between bank value and trading assets …

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