Research Staff

Sokbae (Simon) Lee

Columbia University and IFS

Sokbae is a Professor of Economics at Columbia University. His research focuses on theoretical and applied econometrics.

Selected Publications

Optimal data collection for randomized control trials

In a randomized control trial, the precision of an average treatment effect estimator and the power […]

Pedro Carneiro, Sokbae (Simon) Lee, Daniel Wilhelm
23 October 2017 | CWP45/17

Latest version

Optimal Data Collection for Randomized Control Trials
Pedro Carneiro, Sokbae (Simon) Lee, Daniel Wilhelm
2 May 2019 | CWP21/19

Previous version

Optimal data collection for randomized control trials
Pedro Carneiro, Sokbae (Simon) Lee, Daniel Wilhelm
1 April 2016 | CWP15/16
Optimal data collection for randomized control trials

In a randomized control trial, the precision of an average treatment effect estimator and the power […]

Pedro Carneiro, Sokbae (Simon) Lee, Daniel Wilhelm
27 March 2017 | CWP15/17

Previous version

Optimal data collection for randomized control trials
Pedro Carneiro, Sokbae (Simon) Lee, Daniel Wilhelm
1 April 2016 | CWP15/16
Nonparametric estimation and inference under shape restrictions

Economic theory often provides shape restrictions on functions of interest in applications, such as monotonicity, convexity, […]

Joel L. Horowitz, Sokbae (Simon) Lee
25 July 2016 | CWP29/16

Previous version

Nonparametric estimation and inference under shape restrictions
Joel L. Horowitz, Sokbae (Simon) Lee
19 October 2015 | CWP67/15
Optimal data collection for randomized control trials

In a randomized control trial, the precision of an average treatment e ffect estimator can be […]

Pedro Carneiro, Sokbae (Simon) Lee, Daniel Wilhelm
1 April 2016 | CWP15/16

Latest version

Optimal data collection for randomized control trials
Pedro Carneiro, Sokbae (Simon) Lee, Daniel Wilhelm
23 October 2017 | CWP45/17
Doubly robust uniform confidence band for the conditional average treatment effect function

In this paper, we propose a doubly robust method to present the heterogeneity of the average […]

Sokbae (Simon) Lee, Ryo Okui, Yoon-Jae Whang
10 January 2016 | CWP03/16
Identifying effects of multivalued treatments

Multivalued treatment models have only been studied so far under restrictive assumptions: ordered choice, or more […]

Sokbae (Simon) Lee, Bernard Salanie
8 December 2015 | CWP72/15

Latest version

Identifying effects of multivalued treatments
Sokbae (Simon) Lee, Bernard Salanie
12 June 2018 | CWP34/18
Nonparametric estimation and inference under shape restrictions

Economic theory often provides shape restrictions on functions of interest in applications, such as monotonicity, convexity, […]

Joel L. Horowitz, Sokbae (Simon) Lee
19 October 2015 | CWP67/15

Latest version

Nonparametric estimation and inference under shape restrictions
Joel L. Horowitz, Sokbae (Simon) Lee
25 July 2016 | CWP29/16
Please call me John: name choice and the assimilation of immigrants in the United States, 1900-1930

The vast majority of immigrants to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century […]

Pedro Carneiro, Sokbae (Simon) Lee, Hugo Reis
24 June 2015 | CWP28/15
Breaking the curse of dimensionality in conditional moment inequalities for discrete choice models

This paper studies inference of preference parameters in semiparametric discrete choice models when these parameters are […]

Le-Yu Chen, Sokbae (Simon) Lee
18 June 2015 | CWP26/15
Recombinant innovation and the boundaries of the firm

There is considerable interest in understanding how important market frictions are in stiffing the transmission of […]

Rachel Griffith, Sokbae (Simon) Lee, Bas Straathof
16 September 2014 | CWP40/14