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Evaluating the Effects of Pharmaceutical Interventions, Social Policies, and Exogeneous Shocks on People's Health and Behavior
… confounding bias, including via weighting and regression discontinuity designs. This thesis illustrates the use of existing causal inference approaches in population health and proposes new methods to evaluate the effects of pharmaceutical interventions (Chapters 1 and 2), exogenous shocks …
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Essays in econometrics
… estimating heterogeneous causal effects in regression discontinuity designs. We take advantage of recent development in random forest based estimation methods (e.g. Athey and Wager 2018) to non-parametrically estimate heterogeneous treatment effects. A forest based algorithm is used to …
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Three Essays in Economic Inequality
… method of moments, difference-in-differences and regression discontinuity designs based on individual-level panel data over the period of 2009--2018. The estimation results show that a 14.9% rise in the real minimum wage in 2018 seems to hit the tipping point, which is 5.5% in my estimation. This …
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Applications of Methods in Causal Inference
… variables, difference-in-differences, and regression discontinuity designs, economists can isolate the causal effect of specific variables while controlling for confounding factors. This dissertation applies these methods in different settings, to draw the causal relationship answering the …