This study provides a basic introduction to agent-based modeling (ABM) as apowerful blend of classical and constructive mathematics, with a primary focus onits applicability for social science research. The typical goals of ABM social scienceresearchers are discussed along with the culture-dish...

The "common effect" model in program evaluation assumes that all treated individuals have the same impact from a program. Our paper contributes to the recent literature that tests and goes beyond the common effect model by investigating impact heterogeneity using data from the experimental...

This work deals with a generalization of the Total Least Squaresmethod in the context of the functional linear model. We first propose asmoothing splines estimator of the functional coefficient of the model withoutnoise in the covariates and we obtain an asymptotic result for this...