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"This book reviews the three most popular methods (and their extensions) in applied economics and other social sciences: matching, regression discontinuity, and difference in differences. The book introduces the underlying econometric/statistical ideas, shows what is identified and how the...
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This paper reexamines the GATT/WTO membership effect on bilateral trade flows, using nonparametric methods including pair-matching, permutation tests, and a Rosenbaum (2002) sensitivity analysis. Together, these methods provide an estimation framework that is robust to misspecification biases,...
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In a sample-selection model with the ‘selection’ variable Q and the ‘outcome’ variable Y∗, Y∗ is observed only when Q=1. For a treatment D affecting both Q and Y∗, three effects are of interest: ‘participation’ (i.e., the selection) effect of D on Q, ‘visible performance’...
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