described as robust to weak instruments. We also show that test consistency may still hold even if the overall identification … under both the null hypothesis (level) and the alternative hypothesis (power), with or without identification. We show that … the usual chi-squares critical values are still applicable even when identification is weak. So, all proposed tests can be …

We propose a test for the key identification and estimation conditions in Regression Discontinuity (RD) designs. We … characterize the set of sharp testable implications of the RD assumptions, for which the proposed test is uniformly valid under a …

received much attention in the econometrics literature. We study test performance in the context of specification testing for … all subsidiary null hypotheses outperform the well-known minimum P-value test and a recently proposed test that relies on … the non-parametric estimation of the joint density of all subsidiary test statistics. …

In this paper, I propose a one-step nondegenerate test as an alternative to the classical Vuong (1989) tests. I show … that the new test achieves uniform asymptotic size control in both the overlapping and the non-overlapping cases, while the … classical Vuong tests do not. Meanwhile, the power of the new test can be substantially better than the two-step classical Vuong …

Using normalized regression equations, we propose an alternative estimator of industrial gender wage gaps which is … of the reference groups of any categorical variables. The proposed estimator measures the pure impact of industry on … men and women. Furthermore, the proposed estimator is easy to implement, including hypothesis tests. We compare the …

when applied to a set of established panel-unit-root tests, allows the identification of the real exchange rates that are …