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I review recent work in the statistics literature on instrumental variables methods from an econometrics perspective. I …
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This paper provides an introduction into the estimation of Marginal Treatment Effects (MTE). Compared to the existing surveys on the subject, our paper is less technical and speaks to the applied economist with a solid basic understanding of econometric techniques who would like to use MTE...
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I discuss the econometrics and the economics of past research on the effects of minimum wages on employment in the …
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evaluation methods: controlled experiments, lotteries of oversubscribed programs, instrumental variables, regression …
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This essay reviews progress in empirical economics since Leamer's (1983) critique. Leamer highlighted the benefits of sensitivity analysis, a procedure in which researchers show how their results change with changes in specification or functional form. Sensitivity analysis has had a salutary but...
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statistics and econometrics literatures. It has by now reached a level of maturity that makes it an important tool in many areas …
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