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Endogenous Stratification in Randomized Experiments
Abadie, Alberto - 2013
and show they behave well in realistic scenarios, correcting the large bias problem of the full sample estimator. We use … data from the National JTPA Study and the Tennessee STAR experiment to demonstrate the performance of alternative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071514
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The Early Impact of the Affordable Care Act State-by-State
Kowalski, Amanda - 2014
I examine the impact of state policy decisions on the early impact of the ACA using data through the first half of 2014. I focus on the individual health insurance market, which includes plans purchased through exchanges as well as plans purchased directly from insurers. In this market, at least...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013045284
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Tobacco Regulation and Cost-Benefit Analysis : How Should We Value Foregone Consumer Surplus?
Levy, Helen - 2016
Recent tobacco regulations proposed by the Food and Drug Administration have raised a thorny question: how should the cost-benefit analysis accompanying such policies value foregone consumer surplus associated with regulation-induced reductions in smoking? In a model with rational and fully...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012985942
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The Political Coase Theorem : Experimental Evidence
Galiani, Sebastian - 2014
efficient policies regardless of the distribution of bargaining power among them. This paper uses a laboratory experiment to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057824
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The Political Economy of Public Debt : A Laboratory Study
Battaglini, Marco - 2016
This paper reports the results from a laboratory experiment designed to study political distortions in the accumulation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012986701
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External and Internal Validity of a Geographic Quasi-Experiment Embedded in Cluster-Randomized Experiment
Galiani, Sebastian - 2016
This paper analyzes a geographic quasi-experiment embedded in a cluster-randomized experiment in Honduras. In the … experiment, average treatment effects on school enrollment and child labor were large—especially in the poorest blocks—and could … quasi-experiment yielded point estimates that, for two of three dependent variables, were attenuated. A judicious policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012985947
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Making the Most Out of Social Experiments : Reducing the Intrinsic Uncertainty in Evidence from Randomized Trials with an Application to the Jtpa Exp
Heckman, James J.; Smith, Jeffrey A. - 2022
This paper demonstrates that even under ideal conditions, social experiments in general only uniquely determine the … evaluation model widely used in econometrics is one case where experiments uniquely determine joint the distribution of program … to programs, the data from social experiments are consistent with a wide variety of alternative impact distribution. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013313271
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Quasi-Experimental Shift-Share Research Designs
Borusyak, Kirill - 2018
Many studies use shift-share (or “Bartik”) instruments, which average a set of shocks with exposure share weights. We provide a new econometric framework for shift-share instrumental variable (SSIV) regressions in which identification follows from the quasi-random assignment of shocks, while...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012911479
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Collective Choice and Voluntary Provision of Public Goods
Epple, Dennis N. - 2018
Some public goods are provided entirely with private contributions, others with a mixture of public and private funding, and still others are entirely publicly funded. To explain this variation, a model of dual provision is developed that endogenizes public and private funding. Members of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920474
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Evaluating the Effect of an Antidiscrimination Law Using a Regression-Discontinuity Design
Hahn, Jinyong; Todd, Petra; Klaauw, Wilbert van der - 2021
The regression discontinuity (RD) data design is a quasi-experimental design with the defining characteristic that the probability of receiving treatment changes discontinuously as a function of one or more individual characteristics. This data design occasionally arises in economic and other...
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