The allocation of children’s time among different activities may be important for their cognitive and non-cognitive development. In our work we exploit time use diaries from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children to study the effect of time allocation across a wide range of alternative...

Whenever treatment effects are heterogeneous and there is sorting into treatment based on the gain, monotonicity is a condition that both Instrumental Variable and fuzzy Regression Discontinuity designs have to satisfy for their estimand to be interpretable as a LATE. Angrist and Imbens (1995)...

We establish identifying assumptions and estimation procedures for the ATT in a Difference-in-Differences setting with staggered treatment adoption in the presence of spillovers. We show that the ATT can be estimated by a simple TWFE method that extends the approach of Wooldridge [2022]'s fully...

The aim of this paper is to test for stochastic monotonicity in intergenerational socio-economic mobility tables. In other words we question whether having a parent from a high socio-economic status is never worse than having one with a lower status. We ?rst test a set of 149 intergenerational...

We establish identifying assumptions and estimation procedures for the ATT in a Difference-in-Differences setting with staggered treatment adoption in the presence of spillovers. We show that the ATT can be estimated by a simple TWFE method that extends the approach of Wooldridge [2022]’s...

In this paper we build a dynamic structural model of educational choices in which cognitive skills shape decisions. The model is estimated by maximum likelihood using cohort data where individuals are observed from birth onwards. These data are unique in that they include cognitive skills test...