Does Disability Insurance Receipt Discourage Work? Using Examiner Assignment to Estimate Causal Effects of SSDI Receipt
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In this paper, the first causal estimates of the effect of Social Security Disability Insurance benefit receipt on labor supply using all program applicants were presented, and they used administrative data to matc...Abstract:
We present the first causal estimates of the effect of Social Security Disability Insurance benefit receipt on labor supply using all program applicants. We use administrative data to matc...read more
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Patents and Cumulative Innovation: Causal Evidence from the Courts*
Alberto Galasso,Mark Schankerman +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the effect of patent invalidation on subsequent follow-on innovation is studied. But the authors focus on the technology fields of computers, electronics and medical instruments, and find that patent invalidations lead to a 50 percent increase in subsequent citations to the focal patent, on average.
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The Effects of Pre-Trial Detention on Conviction, Future Crime, and Employment: Evidence from Randomly Assigned Judges
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the detention tendencies of quasi-randomly assigned bail judges to estimate the causal effects of pretrial detention on subsequent defendant outcomes, using data from administrative court and tax records.
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Juvenile Incarceration, Human Capital and Future Crime: Evidence from Randomly-Assigned Judges
TL;DR: The authors used the incarceration tendency of randomly-assigned judges as an instrumental variable to estimate causal effects of juvenile incarceration on high school completion and adult recidivism, and found that juvenile incarceration results in large decreases in the likelihood of high-school completion and large increases in adult incarceration.
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Quasi-Experimental Shift-Share Research Designs
TL;DR: In this article, the orthogonality between a shift-share instrument and an unobserved residual can be represented as the ortho-gonality between the underlying shocks and a shock-level unobservable.
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The Effect of Disability Insurance Receipt on Labor Supply
Eric French,Jae Song +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors exploit the effectively random assignment of judges to disability insurance cases to estimate the causal impact of disability insurance receipt on labor supply. And they find that benefit receipt reduces labor force participation by 26 percentage points three years after a disability determination decision, although the reduction is smaller for older people, college graduates, and those with mental illness.
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Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist's Companion
TL;DR: The core methods in today's econometric toolkit are linear regression for statistical control, instrumental variables methods for the analysis of natural experiments, and differences-in-differences methods that exploit policy changes.
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Identification of Causal Effects Using Instrumental Variables
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Ageing populations: the challenges ahead
TL;DR: Research suggests that ageing processes are modifiable and that people are living longer without severe disability, and this finding will be important for the chances to meet the challenges of ageing populations.
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A Survey of Weak Instruments and Weak Identification in Generalized Method of Moments
TL;DR: Weak instruments arise when the instruments in linear instrumental variables (IV) regression are weakly correlated with the included endogenous variables as discussed by the authors, and weak instruments correspond to weak identification of some or all of the unknown parameters.
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The Skill Content of Recent Technological Change: An Empirical Exploration
TL;DR: This paper found that computer capital substitutes for workers in performing cognitive and manual tasks that can be accomplished by following explicit rules, and complements workers in non-routine problem-solving and complex communications tasks.