Alumni

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

Information redundancy neglect versus overconfidence: a social learning experiment

We study social learning in a continuous action space experiment. Subjects, acting in sequence, state their […]

Marco Angrisani, Antonio Guarino, Philippe Jehiel, Toru Kitagawa
22 June 2017 | CWP32/17

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Information redundancy neglect versus overconfidence: a social learning experiment
Marco Angrisani, Antonio Guarino, Philippe Jehiel, Toru Kitagawa
7 November 2018 | CWP63/18
Who should be treated? Empirical welfare maximization methods for treatment choice

One of the main objectives of empirical analysis of experiments and quasi-experiments is to inform policy […]

Toru Kitagawa, Aleksey Tetenov
19 May 2017 | CWP24/17

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Who should be treated? Empirical welfare maximization methods for treatment choice
Toru Kitagawa, Aleksey Tetenov
10 March 2015 | CWP10/15
Uncertain identification

Uncertainty about the choice of identifying assumptions is common in causal studies, but is often ignored […]

Raffaella Giacomini, Toru Kitagawa, Alessio Volpicella
18 April 2017 | CWP18/17

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Uncertain Identification
Raffaella Giacomini, Toru Kitagawa, Alessio Volpicella
6 July 2020 | CWP33/20
Updating ambiguous beliefs in a social learning experiment

We present a social learning experiment in which subjects predict the value of a good in […]

Roberta De Filippis, Antonio Guarino, Philippe Jehiel, Toru Kitagawa
24 March 2017 | CWP13/17

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Updating ambiguous beliefs in a social learning experiment
Roberta De Filippis, Antonio Guarino, Philippe Jehiel, Toru Kitagawa
9 May 2016 | CWP18/16
Equality-minded treatment choice

The goal of many randomized experiments and quasi-experimental studies in economics is to inform policies that […]

Toru Kitagawa, Aleksey Tetenov
22 February 2017 | CWP10/17

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Equality-minded treatment choice
Toru Kitagawa, Aleksey Tetenov
12 December 2018 | CWP71/18
Model averaging in semiparametric estimation of treatment effects

Choosing the covariates and functional form of the propensity score is an important choice for estimating […]

Toru Kitagawa, Chris Muris
1 July 2016 | Journal Article

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Model averaging in semiparametric estimation of treatment effects
Toru Kitagawa, Chris Muris
13 August 2015 | CWP46/15
Posterior distribution of nondifferentiable functions

This paper examines the asymptotic behavior of the posterior distribution of a possibly nondifferentiable function g(theta […]

Toru Kitagawa, Jose Luis Montiel Olea, Jonathan Payne
9 May 2016 | CWP20/16

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Posterior distribution of nondifferentiable functions
Toru Kitagawa, Jose Luis Montiel Olea, Jonathan Payne
3 October 2017 | CWP44/17
Updating ambiguous beliefs in a social learning experiment

We present a novel experimental design to study social learning in the laboratory. Subjects have to […]

Roberta De Filippis, Antonio Guarino, Philippe Jehiel, Toru Kitagawa
9 May 2016 | CWP18/16

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Updating ambiguous beliefs in a social learning experiment
Roberta De Filippis, Antonio Guarino, Philippe Jehiel, Toru Kitagawa
24 March 2017 | CWP13/17
A Test for Instrument Validity

This paper develops a specification test for instrument validity in the heterogeneous treatment effect model with […]

Toru Kitagawa
1 September 2015 | Journal Article

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A Test for Instrument Validity
Toru Kitagawa
19 August 2014 | CWP34/14
Model averaging in semiparametric estimation of treatment effects

In the practice of program evaluation, choosing the covariates and the functional form of the propensity […]

Toru Kitagawa, Chris Muris
13 August 2015 | CWP46/15

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Model averaging in semiparametric estimation of treatment effects
Toru Kitagawa, Chris Muris
1 July 2016 | Journal Article

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