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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"unconfoundedness"”.
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Three Essays on the Quality of Marriage
… civil conflict violence from Peru and assuming unconfoundedness, I find that the probability of working increased by 0.0454 (eight percent) for women who live in areas affected by the civil conflict and that about 27 percent of this increase is mediated by the woman's exposure to domestic …
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Essays On Peer Effects And Network Econometrics
… model on the outcome, can motivate high-level unconfoundedness and rank conditions to identify average treatment effects and spillovers effects. I show that a novel finite-dimensional statistic (the network propensity score) can summarize the relevant observables under key conditions. I propose …
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Essays in Causal and Comparative Econometrics
… issue of limited overlap in settings where unconfoundedness holds and the conditional average treatment effect can be parameterized. I do so by developing a general principle called "Stable Probability Weighting" (SPW) that can be used as an alternative to the widely used Inverse Probability …
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Essays on Propensity Score Methods for Causal Inference in Observational Studies
… robustness of the estimated quantity when the unconfoundedness assumption is violated. Two approaches to sensitivity analysis are presented, both are extensions from previous works to accommodate for a count outcome. One method is based on the subclassification estimator and it relies on …
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Essays on job search behavior and labor market policies
… the thesis offers an empirical assessment of the unconfoundedness assumption with respect to the relevance of variables that are usually unobserved in studies evaluating ALMP programs. A unique dataset that combines administrative records and survey data allows us to observe detailed information …