Regression–Discontinuity Analysis: A Survey of Recent Developments in Economics
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The authors provides a discussion of recent developments related to the applicability of the regression discontinuity design in economics, such as identification and estimation methods, as well as a number of sensitivity and validity tests of importance in empirical application.Abstract:
. This paper provides a discussion of recent developments related to the applicability of the regression discontinuity design in economics. It reviews econometric issues, such as identification and estimation methods, as well as a number of sensitivity and validity tests of importance in empirical application.read more
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Impact assessment framework : SME finance
Claudia Ruiz,Inessa Love +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the importance of rigorous impact evaluation and provide an overview of the relevance, application, strengths, and limitations of impact evaluation techniques, as well as relevant operational information regarding budget and timing issues.
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Dirichlet Process Mixture Models for Regression Discontinuity Designs
TL;DR: This work proposes a methodology that, tackling the problem from an applied point of view, considers units' exchangeability, i.e., their similarity with respect to measured covariates, as the main criteria to select subjects for the analysis, irrespectively of their distance from the threshold.
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Robust Methods for Program Evaluation.
TL;DR: This dissertation research looks at the effects of teacher and peer characteristics on student achievement in the STAR Project conducted in Tennessee in the late 1980s, and considers two types of unobservables: school-specific effects and idiosyncratic disturbances.
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Essays in microeconometrics
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the estimation of nonparametric and semiparametric econometric models widely used in empirical studies when the data is mismeasured and proposed a new estimator.
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They win, I leave: the impact of the Northern League party on foreign internal migration
TL;DR: In this article, the authors study how foreign citizens' internal migration with a regular residency permit in North-Italy can be affected by the election of a mayor affiliated to the Northern League (Lega Nord) party, a far-right political movement characterized by a strong federalist, populist and anti-immigration ideology.
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The central role of the propensity score in observational studies for causal effects
TL;DR: The authors discusses the central role of propensity scores and balancing scores in the analysis of observational studies and shows that adjustment for the scalar propensity score is sufficient to remove bias due to all observed covariates.
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Matching As An Econometric Evaluation Estimator: Evidence from Evaluating a Job Training Programme
TL;DR: This paper decompose the conventional measure of evaluation bias into several components and find that bias due to selection on unobservables, commonly called selection bias in econometrics, is empirically less important than other components, although it is still a sizeable fraction of the estimated programme impact.
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Local polynomial modelling and its applications
Jianqing Fan,Irène Gijbels +1 more
TL;DR: Applications of Local Polynomial Modeling in Nonlinear Time Series and Automatic Determination of Model Complexity and Framework for Local polynomial regression.
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Evolution and Rationality Some Recent Game-Theoretic Results. Identification and Estimation of Local Average Treatment Effects
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated conditions sufficient for identification of average treatment effects using instrumental variables and showed that the existence of valid instruments is not sufficient to identify any meaningful average treatment effect.