“...In this paper, we discuss recent developments in econometrics that we view as important for empirical researchers working on policy evaluation questions. We...”

“...Most questions in social and biomedical sciences are causal in nature: what would happen to individuals, or to groups, if part of their environment were...”

“...There is a large theoretical literature on methods for estimating causal effects under unconfoundedness, exogeneity, or selection-on-observables type...”

“...Many empirical questions in economics and other social sciences depend on causal effects of programs or policies. In the last two decades, much research has...”

“...Matching estimators are widely used in empirical economics for the evaluation of programs or treatments. Researchers using matching methods often apply the...”

“...Matching estimators for average treatment effects are widely used in evaluation research despite the fact that their large sample properties have not been...”

“...There is a large and growing literature on peer effects in economics. In the current article, we focus on a Manski-type linear-in-means model that has proved...”

“...We are interested in estimating the average effect of a binary treatment on a scalar outcome. If assignment to the treatment is exogenous or unconfounded, that...”

“...Recently a growing body of research has studied inference in settings where parameters of interest are partially identified. In many cases the parameter is...”

“...We study estimation and inference in settings where the interest is in the effect of a potentially endogenous regressor on some outcome. To address the...”