Centre for microdata methods and practice
The cemmap working paper series publishes papers expanding the frontiers of knowledge in microdata methods and practice. Martin Weidner is the editor of the working paper series.
Behavioral choice models generate inequalities which, when combined with additional assumptions, can be used as a… Continue reading.
Social experiments are powerful sources of information about the effectiveness of interventions. In practice, initial randomization… Continue reading.
We study the asymptotic distribution of three-step estimators of a finite dimensional parameter vector where the… Continue reading.
The recent literature has brought together the characteristics model of utility and classic revealed preference arguments… Continue reading.
We provide a tractable characterization of the sharp identification region of the parameters θ in a… Continue reading.
We introduce a notion of median uncorrelation that is a natural extension of mean (linear) uncorrelation…. Continue reading.
The goal of this paper is to measure Palestinians’ attitudes towards a peace process and their… Continue reading.
The control function approach (Heckman and Robb (1985)) in a system of linear simultaneous equations provides… Continue reading.
This paper estimates the marginal returns to college for individuals induced to enroll in college by… Continue reading.
We present evidence from 260,000 online auctions of second-hand cars to identify the impact of public… Continue reading.
We develop results for the use of LASSO and Post-LASSO methods to form first-stage predictions and… Continue reading.
In this paper, I develop and estimate a dynamic model of strategic network formation with heterogeneous… Continue reading.
Additive models for conditional quantile functions provide an attractive framework for nonparametric regression applications focused on… Continue reading.
Goodness of fit tests based on sup-norm statistics of empirical processes have nonstandard limiting distributions when… Continue reading.
The matching method for treatment evaluation does not balance selective unobserved differences between treated and non-treated…. Continue reading.
In this article, we develop a general method for testing threshold effects in regression models, using… Continue reading.
There is policy interest in using tax to change food purchasing behaviour. The literature has not… Continue reading.
We study the impact of increasing the time that the mother spends with her child in… Continue reading.
We study the intergenerational effects of maternal education on children’s cognitive achievement, behavioral problems, grade repetition… Continue reading.
This paper illustrates how the use of random set theory can benefit partial identification analysis. We… Continue reading.