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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105929
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Well-Being, Social Capital and Public Policy: What's New?
Helliwell, John F. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
government. Finally, Canadian life-satisfaction data show that several non-financial job characteristics, and especially the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005710625
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How's the Job? Well-Being and Social Capital in the Workplace
Helliwell, John F.; Huang, Haifang - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
characteristics influence direct measures of life satisfaction from three large and recent Canadian surveys. The well-being results … jobs, so as to increase both life satisfaction and workplace efficiency. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005050086
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The Macroeconomic Implications of Rising Wage Inequality in the United States
Heathcote, Jonathan; Storesletten, Kjetil; Violante, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
-markets overlapping-generations model in which individuals choose education and form households, and households choose consumption and … by gender and education. The model is parameterized using micro data from the PSID, the CPS and the CEX. With the … also assess the role played by education, labor supply, and saving in providing insurance against shocks, and in exploiting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005828546
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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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Education, Birth Order, and Family Size
Bagger, Jesper; Birchenall, Javier A.; Mansour, Hani; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We introduce a general framework to analyze the trade-off between education and family size. Our framework incorporates … significant birth order and family size effects in individuals' years of education thereby confirming the presence of a quantity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969380
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Estimating Person-Centered Treatment (PeT) Effects Using Instrumental Variables
Basu, Anirban - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
This paper builds on the methods of local instrumental variables developed by Heckman and Vytlacil (1999, 2001, 2005) to estimate person-centered treatment (PeT) effects that are conditioned on the person's observed characteristics and averaged over the potential conditional distribution of...
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Identification and Inference with Many Invalid Instruments
Chetty, Raj; Glaeser, Edward Ludwig; Imbens, Guido; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
We analyze linear models with a single endogenous regressor in the presence of many instrumental variables. We weaken a key assumption typically made in this literature by allowing all the instruments to have direct effects on the outcome. We consider restrictions on these direct effects that...
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