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This paper uses newly available Chinese micro data to estimate the return to college education for late 20th century China when allowing for heterogeneous returns among individuals selecting into schooling based on these differences. We use recently developed semiparametric methods to identify...
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of the associated IV results. We discuss potential adjustments to IV estimates in the presence of this bias …
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Empirical researchers routinely encounter sample selection bias whereby 1) the regressor of interest is assumed to be …
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This paper discusses the definition and identification of external treatment effects and experimental designs capable of detecting these effects. External effects occur when the outcome of a given individual is affected by the treatment assignments of other individuals. The paper argues that...
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This paper considers causal inference and sample selection bias in non-experimental settings in which: (i) few units in … treated units and, hence, in alleviating the bias due to systematic differences between the treated and comparison units …
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treatments are conditionally randomly assigned and the controls are sufficiently flexible to avoid omitted variables bias … treatments. Thus, recent concerns about heterogeneity-induced bias in regressions leveraging potential outcome restrictions (e … contamination bias and propose a new class of efficient estimators of weighted average effects that avoid bias. In a re-analysis of …
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This paper examines the econometric causal model and the interpretation of empirical evidence based on thought experiments that was developed by Ragnar Frisch and Trygve Haavelmo. We compare the econometric causal model with two currently popular causal frameworks: the Neyman-Rubin causal model...
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With count-valued outcomes y in {0,1,...,M} identification and estimation of average treatment effects raise no special considerations beyond those involved in the continuous-outcome case. If partial identification of the distribution of treatment effects is of interest, however, count-valued...
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We use a rigorous three-stage many-analysts design to assess how different researcher decisions--specifically data cleaning, research design, and the interpretation of a policy question--affect the variation in estimated treatment effects. A total of 146 research teams each completed the same...
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effect having an opposite sign from the true effect. We present an expression for the asymptotic bias of both OLS and IV … estimators and discuss the conditions under which sign reversal may occur. We provide a method for eliminating this bias when …
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