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Thinking about instrumental variables (in Russian)

Sims, Christopher A. - In: Quantile (2007) 2, pp. 83-94

We take a decision-theoretic view on the question of how to use instrumental variables and method of moments. Since …

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Growth and the Quality of Foreign Direct Investment: Is All FDI Equal?

Alfaro, Laura; Charlton, Andrew - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007

, instrumental variables JEL Classifications: F23, F36, F43, O40 This paper was produced as part of the Centre’s Globalisation … to address both problems is to use instrumental variables at the industry level. 16 To identify the effect of FDI on …

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A Specification Test For Nonparametric Instrumental Variable Regression

Gagliardini, Patrick; Scaillet, Olivier - 2007

We consider testing for correct specification of a nonparametric instrumental variable regression. In this ill-posed inverse problem setting, the test statistic is based on the empirical minimum distance criterion corresponding to the conditional moment restriction evaluated with a Tikhonov...

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The Economics of Roadside Bombs

Hanson, Matthew A. - Department of Economics, College of William & Mary - 2007

devices (IEDs), which have caused most of the Coalition casualties. We use an instrumental variables approach to estimate the …

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A review of instrumental variables estimation in the applied health sciences

Grootendorst, Paul - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2007

– are limited by strong and untestable assumptions. Instrumental variables estimation can be a viable alternative. In this …

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A Researcher's Guide to the Swedish Compulsory School Reform

Holmlund, Helena - Institutet för Social Forskning (SOFI), Stockholms … - 2007

When studying different types of returns to education, educational reforms are commonly used in the economics literature as a source of exogenous variation in education. The Swedish compulsory school reform is one example; the reform extended compulsory education throughout the country, in...

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Family income and children's education: Using the Norwegian oil boom as a natural experiment.

Løken, Katrine Vellesen - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2007

, Instrumental Variables, Income and Education Contact information: katrine.loken@econ.uib.no. I would like to thank Kjell Erik …�394. Angrist, J. D., and A. B. Krueger (2004): �Instrumental Variables and the Search for Identi�cation,�NBER Workingpaper 8456 … (1997): �Problems with Instrumental Variables Estimation When the Correlation between the Instruments and the Endogenous …

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Poverty Targeting and Impact of a Governmental Micro-credit Program in Vietnam

Cuong, Nguyen Viet; Pham, Minh Thu; Minh, Nguyet Pham; … - Partenariat en Politiques Économiques (PEP), … - 2007

It is argued that without collateral the poor often face binding borrowing constraints in the formal credit market. This justifies a micro-credit program, which is operated by the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies to provide the poor with preferential credit. This paper examines poverty targeting...

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The Generalized Method of Moments

Slutskin, Lev - In: Applied Econometrics 7 (2007) 3, pp. 119-133

We continue presenting recent achievements in econometrics not yet widely known to a Russian reader. The generalized method of moments (GMM) was introduced to econometrical research by L. Hansen in his seminal paper in 1982. The GMM is a result of unifying two main approaches to estimating model...

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Enhanced routines for instrumental variables/generalized method of moments estimation and testing

Baum, Christopher; Schaffer, Mark; Stillman, Steven - In: Stata Journal 7 (2007) 4, pp. 465-506

We extend our 2003 paper on instrumental variables and generalized method of moments estimation, and we test and …

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