This paper exploits substantial regional variations in the non-Muslims proportion of the population on the eve of the war of independence (1954) in Algeria to evaluate the long term impact of colonial discrimination in public goods allocation on education levels.
Motivated by several interesting features of the highway mowing auction data from TexasDepartment of Transportation, we propose a two-stage procurement auction model withendogenous entry and uncertain number of actual bidders. Our entry and bidding models provide several interesting implications.
This paper formalizes conditions under which a population distribution ofcategorical responses to attitudinal questions (items) has a scale representation; developstests for whether a particular sample of item responses is consistent with a scale representation; develops methods for nonparametrically estimating the relation between an outcome and a scale value; and generalizes the foregoing to the multi-scale case.
We estimate the effects of active labour market policies (ALMP) on subsequent employment by nonparametric instrumental variables and matching estimators.
We propose inference procedures for partially identified population features for which the population identification region can be written as a transformation of the Aumann expectation of a properly defined set valued random variable (SVRV).
We consider nonparametric estimation of a regression function that is identified by requiring a specified quantile of the regression "error" conditional on an instrumental variable to be zero.
The use of fractional imputation, nearest neighbour imputation, predictive mean matching and propensity score weighting are considered. Properties of point estimators are compared both theoretically and by simulation.
Efficient semiparametric and parametric estimates are developed for a spatial autoregressive model, containing non stochastic explanatory variables and innovations suspected to be non-normal.
In this paper we show how experimental data from field trials can be used to enhance the evaluation of interventions and we also illustrate the potential importance of allowing for longer term incentive and General Equilibrium effects.
In this paper we consider consumer benefits from increased competition in a differentiated product setting: the spread of non-traditional retail outlets.
In this note we consider several versions of the bootstrap and argue that it is helpful in explaining and thinking about such procedures to use an explicit representation of the random resampling process.
Current methods of estimating the random coefficients logit model employ simulations of the distribution of the taste parameters through pseudo-random sequences.
