instrumental variables estimation instrumenting family size with twin births. Estimation using a unrestricted specification for the … relationship between family size and child outcomes. We find that the conclusion in Black, Devereux, and Salvanes (2005) of no … family size effect does not hold after relaxing their linear specification in family size. We find nonzero effects of family …

This paper develops a simulation estimation algorithm that is particularly useful for estimating dynamic panel data …

example, two recent relatively prominent papers have attempted to estimate the respective direct effects of marriage and gang … choosing the treatment (e.g. marriage or gang membership) may have differed in their criminality from those who did not even in … taken when it comes to interpreting the results arising from fixed-effects methods. -- Fixed-effects ; crime ; marriage …