Hi Everyone,
In tomorrow's applied statistics seminar, Mitali Das, assistant professor
of economics at Columbia University will present her paper "Estimation of
Models with Endogenous Covariates, without Instrumental Variables".
Although the paper is not being distributed before the seminar you can
find the abstract below.
See you tomorrow!
Shigeo
"Estimation of Models with Endogenous Covariates, without Instrumental
Variables"
Mitali Das
Assistant Professor
Department Economics, Columbia University
ABSTRACT
This paper introduces restrictions from economics into the
estimation of models with endogenous covariates. Under weak conditions
such as Spence-Mirrlees single crossing, it is shows that slope
parameters of standard regressions models, e.g. simple linear, binary
choice, censored and truncated models, are identified. Unlike a very large
literature on estimation of such models, this paper does not depend on
instrumental variables setting them apart from a long line of
methodological and empirical work on structural estimation that began with
Koopmans (1949).
The small sample performance of the estimators is studied in a small scale
simulation study. It is also applied to a returns to education problem. In
this application, it is found that the proposed estimators that use no
instruments yield the same behavioral response as a linear IV estimator in
Card (1995) which uses an instrument known to be ``valid'' in the
empirical literature.
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Shigeo Hirano Political Economy and Government
shirano(a)fas.harvard.edu Harvard University
Hi Everyone,
This week Professor Rubin will talk about his work on the CDC panel
designing anthrax vaccine randomized experiments.
Hope to see you all on Wednesday!
Shigeo
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Shigeo Hirano Political Economy and Government
shirano(a)fas.harvard.edu Harvard University
This is just a quick note to let you know that Alberto Abadie's paper "The
Economic Cost of Conflict: A Case-Control Study for the Basque Country" is
on the course webpage.
See you all Wednesday.
Shigeo
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Shigeo Hirano Political Economy and Government
shirano(a)fas.harvard.edu Harvard University
Hi Everyone,
Just in case you haven't noticed, the figures for paper are much easier to
interpret using when viewed in color. Please email me
(shirano(a)fas.harvard.edu) if you would like a color printout of the
figures.
Thanks,
Shigeo
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Shigeo Hirano Political Economy and Government
shirano(a)fas.harvard.edu Harvard University
I'm supposed to be on the list, but have not received any emails this semester..
Thanks,
Ronghui (Lily) Xu
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Ronghui Xu
Assistant professor
Department of Biostatistics
Harvard School of Public Health
and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
44 Binney Street, M1B.25
Boston, MA 02115
Phone: (617)632-3601
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Hi Everyone,
Sean Carey's paper "The Impact of Political Parties on Public Support for
European Integration" is now up on the course web page.
See you all Wednesday!
Shigeo
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