Measurement

Measurement

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Posterior average effects

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Economists are often interested in estimating averages with respect to distributions of unobservables, such as moments of individual fixed-effects, or average partial effects in discrete choice models.

10 September 2021

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Who should get vaccinated? Individualized allocation of vaccines over SIR network

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How to allocate vaccines over heterogeneous individuals is one of the important policy decisions in pandemic times. This paper develops a procedure to estimate an individualized vaccine allocation policy under limited supply, exploiting social network data containing individual demographic characteristics and health status.

20 July 2021

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IV methods for Tobit models

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This paper studies models of processes generating censored outcomes with endogenous explanatory variables and instrumental variable restrictions.

28 June 2021

IFS WP2021/15 Ever since Allais

Ever since Allais

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We find that departures from independence are statistically significant but minor relative to departures from ordering and/or monotonicity.

14 June 2021

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Bias and consistency in three-way gravity models

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We study the incidental parameter problem for the “three-way” Poisson Pseudo-Maximum Likelihood (PPML) estimator recently recommended for identifying the effects of trade policies and in other panel data gravity settings.

8 March 2021

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Counterfactual worlds

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We study an extension of a treatment effect model in which an observed discrete classifier indicates which one of a set of counterfactual processes occurs, each of which may result in the realization of several endogenous outcomes.

1 February 2021