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
Covariate selection and model averaging in semiparametric estimation of treatment effects
In the practice of program evaluation, choosing the covariates and the functional form of the propensity […]
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A bootstrap test for instrument validity in heterogeneous treatment effect models
This paper develops a specification test for the instrument validity conditions in the heterogeneous treatment effect […]
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Inference and decision for set identified parameters using posterior lower and upper probabilities
This paper develops inference and statistical decision for set-identified parameters from the robust Bayes perspective. When […]
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Identification region of the potential outcome distributions under instrument independence
This paper examines identification power of the instrument exogeneity assumption in the treatment effect model. We […]