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Carneiro, Pedro; Galasso, Emanuela; Ginja, Rita - 2014

We study an innovative welfare program in Chile which combines a period of frequent home visits to households in extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression discontinuity design, exploring the fact that program eligibility is a...

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Measuring and changing control : women's empowerment and targeted transfers

Almås, Ingvild; Armand, Alex; Attanasio, Orazio P.; … - 2015

This paper studies how targeted cash transfers to women affect their empowerment. We use a novel identification … strategy to measure women's willingness to pay to receive cash transfers instead of their partner receiving it. We apply this …) in Macedonia offering poor households cash transfers conditional on having their children attending secondary school. The …

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Consumer benefits from increased competition in shopping outlets : measuring the effect of Wal-Mart

Hausman, Jerry A. (contributor); … - 2006

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Inference on counterfactual distributions

Chernozhukov, Victor; Fernández-Val, Iván; Melly, Blaise - 2009

In this paper we develop procedures for performing inference in regression models about how potential policy interventions affect the entire marginal distribution of an outcome of interest. These policy interventions consist of either changes in the distribution of covariates related to the...

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Measuring the price responsiveness of gasoline demand

Blundell, Richard W.; Horowitz, Joel; Parey, Matthias - 2009

This paper develops a new method for estimating the demand function for gasoline and the deadweight loss due to an increase in the gasoline tax. The method is also applicable to other goods. The method uses shape restrictions derived from economic theory to improve the precision of a...

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Quantile and probability curves without crossing

Chernozhukov, Victor (contributor); … - 2007

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Bias corrections for two-step fixed effects panel data estimators

Fernández-Val, Iván (contributor); … - 2007

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Estimating marginal returns to education

Carneiro, Pedro; Heckman, James J.; Vytlacil, Edward - 2010

This paper estimates the marginal returns to college for individuals induced to enroll in college by different marginal policy changes. The recent instrumental variables literature seeks to estimate this parameter, but in general it does so only under strong assumptions that are tested and found...

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Estimating the technology of cognitive and noncognitive skill formation

Cunha, Flávio; Heckman, James J.; Schennach, Susanne M. - 2010

This paper formulates and estimates multistage production functions for children's cognitive and noncognitive skills. Skills are determined by parental environments and investments at different stages of childhood. We estimate the elasticity of substitution between investments in one period and...

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Testing the correlated random coefficient model

Heckman, James J.; Schmierer, Daniel; Urzua, Sergio - 2010

The recent literature on instrumental variables (IV) features models in which agents sort into treatment status on the basis of gains from treatment as well as on baselinepretreatment levels. Components of the gains known to the agents and acted on by them may not be known by the observing...

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