Research Staff
Toru Kitagawa
cemmap and University College London
Toru is a research staff member at the Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap) and is also a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Economics. He has previously taught Microeconomectrics and Econometrics for Policy.
Selected Publications
How to allocate vaccines over heterogeneous individuals is one of the important policy decisions in pandemic […]
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We propose a new specification test for assessing the validity of fuzzy regression discontinuity designs (FRD-validity). […]
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In a landmark contribution to the structural vector autoregression (SVARs) literature, Rubio-Ramirez, Waggoner, and Zha (2010, […]
In our laboratory experiment, subjects, in sequence, have to predict the value of a good. The […]
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How to allocate vaccines over heterogeneous individuals is one of the important policy decisions in pandemic […]
Many empirical questions concern target parameters selected through optimization. For example, researchers may be interested in […]
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This paper analyzes Structural Vector Autoregressions (SVARs) where identification of structural parameters holds locally but not […]
Uncertainty about the choice of identifying assumptions is common in causal studies, but is often ignored […]
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In an important class of econometric problems, researchers select a target parameter by maximizing the Euclidean […]
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This paper examines the identifying power of instrument exogeneity in the treatment effect model. We derive […]