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Wanna Get Away? RD Identification Away from the Cutoff
Angrist, Joshua; Rokkanen, Miikka - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
In the canonical regression discontinuity (RD) design for applicants who face an award or admissions cutoff, causal effects are nonparametrically identified for those near the cutoff. The impact of treatment on inframarginal applicants is also of interest, but identification of such effects...
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The Perils of Peer Effects
Angrist, Joshua - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Individual outcomes are highly correlated with group average outcomes, a fact often interpreted as a causal peer effect. Without covariates, however, outcome-on-outcome peer effects are vacuous, either unity or, if the average is defined as leave-out, determined by a generic intraclass...
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IV Quantile Regression for Group-level Treatments, with an Application to the Distributional Effects of Trade
Chetverikov, Denis; Larsen, Bradley; Palmer, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
We present a methodology for estimating the distributional effects of an endogenous treatment that varies at the group level when there are group-level unobservables, a quantile extension of Hausman and Taylor (1981). Because of the presence of group-level unobservables, standard quantile...
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College Cost and Time to Complete a Degree: Evidence from Tuition Discontinuities
Garibaldi, Pietro; Giavazzi, Francesco; Ichino, Andrea; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
public subsidies to education, congestion externalities and/or peer effects. …
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Recovering Ex Ante Returns and Preferences for Occupations using Subjective Expectations Data
Hotz, V. Joseph; Arcidiacono, Peter; Maurel, Arnaud; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We show that data on subjective expectations, especially on outcomes from counterfactual choices and choice probabilities, are a powerful tool in recovering ex ante treatment effects as well as preferences for different treatments. In this paper we focus on the choice of occupation, and use...
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In a Small Moment: Class Size and Moral Hazard in the Mezzogiorno
Angrist, Joshua; Battistin, Erich; Vuri, Daniela - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
An instrumental variables (IV) identification strategy that exploits statutory class size caps shows significant achievement gains in smaller classes in Italian primary schools. Gains from small classes are driven mainly by schools in Southern Italy, suggesting a substantial return to class size...
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Charters Without Lotteries: Testing Takeovers in New Orleans and Boston
Angrist, Joshua; Abdulkadiroğlu, Atila; Hull, Peter D.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Lottery estimates suggest oversubscribed urban charter schools boost student achievement markedly. But these estimates needn’t capture treatment effects for students who haven’t applied to charter schools or for students attending charters for which demand is weak. This paper reports...
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Field of Study, Earnings, and Self-Selection
Kirkebøen, Lars; Leuven, Edwin; Mogstad, Magne - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Why do individuals choose different types of post-secondary education, and what are the labor market consequences of … alternatives. Even with a valid instrument for every type of education, instrumental variables estimation of the payoffs require … information about individuals’ ranking of education types or strong additional assumptions, like constant effects or restrictive …
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Financial Incentives and Educational Investment: The Impact of Performance-Based Scholarships on Student Time Use
Barrow, Lisa; Rouse, Cecilia E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Using survey data from a field experiment in the U.S., we test whether and how financial incentives change student behavior. We find that providing post-secondary scholarships with incentives to meet performance, enrollment, and/or attendance benchmarks induced students to devote more time to...
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Pathways to Education: An Integrated Approach to Helping At-Risk High School Students
Oreopoulos, Philip; Brown, Robert S.; Lavecchia, Adam M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Pathways to Education is a comprehensive youth support program developed to improve academic outcomes among those …
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