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From late to MTE : alternative methods for the evaluation of policy interventions

Cornelißen, Thomas; Dustmann, Christian; Raute, Anna; … - 2016

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Using Matching, Instrumental Variables and Control Functions to Estimate Economic Choice Models

Heckman, James J. - 2003

selection) in matching, instrumental variable and control functions methods. (2) It contrasts the roles of exclusion … restrictions in matching and selection models. (3) It characterizes the sensitivity of matching to the choice of conditioning …. (4) It demonstrates the problem of choosing the conditioning variables in matching and the failure of conventional model …

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Semiparametric Causality Tests Using the Policy Propensity Score

Angrist, Joshua D. - 2004

Time series data are widely used to explore causal relationships, typically in a regression framework with lagged dependent variables. Regression-based causality tests rely on an array of functional form and distributional assumptions for valid causal inference. This paper develops a...

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Semiparametric Estimation of Treatment Effects in Randomized Experiments

Athey, Susan; Bickel, Peter J.; Chen, Aiyou; Imbens, Guido - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We develop new semiparametric methods for estimating treatment effects. We focus on a setting where the outcome distributions may be thick tailed, where treatment effects are small, where sample sizes are large and where assignment is completely random. This setting is of particular interest in...

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Nonlinear Policy Rules and the Identification and Estimation of Causal Effects in a Generalized Regression Kink Design

Card, David - 2012

We consider nonparametric identification and estimation in a nonseparable model where a continuous regressor of interest is a known, deterministic, but kinked function of an observed assignment variable. This design arises in many institutional settings where a policy variable (such as weekly...

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Identification and Estimation of Dynamic Causal Effects in Macroeconomics Using External Instruments

Stock, James H. - 2018

An exciting development in empirical macroeconometrics is the increasing use of external sources of as-if randomness to identify the dynamic causal effects of macroeconomic shocks. This approach - the use of external instruments - is the time series counterpart of the highly successful strategy...

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Sensitivity of matching-based program evaluations to the availability of control variables

Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny - 2011

the question whether the omission of important control variables in matching estimation leads to biased impact estimates …

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Endogenous Stratification in Randomized Experiments

Abadie, Alberto - 2013

Researchers and policy makers are often interested in estimating how treatments or policy interventions affect the outcomes of those most in need of help. This concern has motivated the increasingly common practice of disaggregating experimental data by groups constructed on the basis of an...

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Causal Inference from Hypothetical Evaluations

Bernheim, Bert Douglas; Björkegren, Daniel; Naecker, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper explores methods for inferring the causal effects of treatments on choices by combining data on real choices with hypothetical evaluations. We propose a class of estimators, identify conditions under which they yield consistent estimates, and derive their asymptotic distributions. The...

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Matching Methods in Practice : Three Examples

Imbens, Guido - 2014

selection--on--observables type assumptions using matching or propensity score methods. Much of this literature is highly …

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