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The Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries are rich in natural resources and in most of them their extractive industries extract and export natural resources with little industrial processing. This study analyzes the direct and indirect impacts that the extractive industries in...
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resource windfalls affect equilibrium factor shares. The theory suggests that the response of factor shares to exogenous …
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This paper considers education investment and public education subsidies in closed and open economies with an … extortionary government. The extortionary government in a closed economy has incentives to subsidize education in order to overcome … their education policies if highly productive labor is fully mobile. Extortionary governments' incentives for education …
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I review recent work in the statistics literature on instrumental variables methods from an econometrics perspective. I discuss some of the older, economic, applications including supply and demand models and relate them to the recent applications in settings of randomized experiments with...
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This paper provides an introduction into the estimation of Marginal Treatment Effects (MTE). Compared to the existing surveys on the subject, our paper is less technical and speaks to the applied economist with a solid basic understanding of econometric techniques who would like to use MTE...
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In this paper nonparametric instrumental variable estimation of local average treatment effects (LATE) is extended to incorporate confounding covariates. Estimation of local average treatment effects is appealing since their identification relies on much weaker assumptions than the...
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Instrumental variables (IV) is an indispensable tool for establishing causal relationships between variables. Recent work has focused on improving bounds for cases when an ideal instrument does not exist. We leverage a principle, "Intransitivity in Correlations," related to an under-utilized...
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of unequal education. We document large achievement gaps between children from different socio-economic backgrounds, show … acquisition and investment in human capital. The models account for different channels underlying unequal education and highlight … summarize early evidence on the impact of the pandemic on children's education and on possible long-run repercussions for …
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Commodity price increases associated with the entry of China, India and other countries into the world economy has led to increased pressure on common-property renewable natural resources (NR). The problem is particularly worrisome for economies that obtain a large share of their income from the...
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Traditional instrumental variable estimators do not generally estimate effects for the treated population but for the unobserved population of compliers. They do identify effects for the treated when there is one-sided perfect non-compliance. However, this property is lost when covariates are...
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