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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"heterogeneous treatment effect"”.
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Rethinking Machine Learning for Heterogeneous Treatment Effect Estimation
The need to estimate the causal effect that a treatment, policy or other intervention had on an outcome variable is a problem which ubiquitously appears in fields ranging from economics to marketing and medicine. Historically, population average effects have been the main estimand of interest, …
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EXAMINING THE IMPACT OF THE MARYLAND GLOBAL BUDGET MODEL ON SEVERE MATERNAL MORBIDITY DISPARITIES
… care coordination and the redistributive effects of a fully prospective, all-payer, population-based global budget, it was hypothesized that GBM will lead to (1) improvements in population-level prenatal and perinatal health, thereby reducing occurrence of SMM, and (2) increased access and …
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Essays on Marijuana Legalizations
… chapter of this dissertation, we investigate the effect of Recreational marijuana laws (RMLs) on Harder Drug Use and Crime. RMLs, which legalize the possession of small quantities of marijuana for recreational use, have been adopted by 18 states and the District of Columbia. Opponents argue that …
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Essays on the Labor Market, Hard Drug Use, and Traffic Fatalities
… investigates three different aspects of the effect of marijuana legalizations. In the first chapter of this dissertation, my co-author 1 and I replicate Anderson et al. 2013 paper "Medical Marijuana Laws, Traffic Fatalities, and Alcohol Consumption" and extend the analysis using a more …
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Empirical Essays on Causal Effects of Job Training Programs: Evidence From Korea
… data. The first chapter examines the effectiveness of the programs on the probability of re-employment and on wages. This observational study tackles multiple biases by adopting: (1) a propensity score matching approach for selection into treatment, and (2) a principal stratification …
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Essays on Microeconometrics
… of an instrumental variable in the nonparametric heterogeneous treatment effect framework when a binary treat- ment variable is mismeasured and endogenous. I characterize the sharp identified set for the local average treatment effect under the following two assumptions: (1) the exclusion …