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Treatment Effect Heterogeneity in Theory and Practice

Angrist, Joshua D. - 2004

estimate the effect of child-bearing on economic and marital outcomes. The application is motivated by American welfare reform … childbearing, but evidence on the impact of childbearing on marital stability and welfare use is more tenuous …

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Treatment Effect Heterogeneity in Theory and Practice

Angrist, Joshua D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

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Fertility effects of college education : evidence from the German educational expansion

Kamhöfer, Daniel A.; Westphal, Matthias - 2017

We estimate the effects of college education on female fertility - a so far understudied margin of education, which we instrument by arguably exogenous variation induced through college expansions. While college education reduces the probability of becoming a mother, college-educated mothers...

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Treatment Effect Heterogeneity in Theory and Practice

Angrist, Joshua - Econometric Society - 2004

to estimate the effect of child-bearing on marital status, poverty status, and welfare receipt for the population of … mothers with two or more children. The application is motivated by American welfare reform, which penalizes further … childbearing by welfare mothers on the grounds that additional childbearing makes continued poverty and welfare receipt more likely …

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Testing the quantity-quality model of fertility : Estimation using unrestricted family size models

Mogstad, Magne; Wiswall, Matthew - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 7 (2016) 1, pp. 157-192

We examine the relationship between child quantity and quality. Motivated by the theoretical ambiguity regarding the sign of the marginal effects of additional siblings on children’s outcomes, our empirical model allows for an unrestricted relationship between family size and child outcomes....

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How much should we trust linear instrumental variables estimators? An application to family size and children's education

Mogstad, Magne; Wiswall, Matthew - 2009

Many empirical studies specify outcomes as a linear function of endogenous regressors when conducting instrumental variable (IV) estimation. We show that tests for treatment effects, selection bias, and treatment effect heterogeneity are biased if the true relationship is non-linear. These...

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