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

“...Two recent papers, Deaton (2009) and Heckman and Urzua (2009), argue against what they see as an excessive and inappropriate use of experimental and...”

“...In Abadie and Imbens (2006), it was shown that simple nearest-neighbor matching estimators include a conditional bias term that converges to zero at a rate...”

“...Recently there has been a surge in econometric work focusing on estimating average treatment effects under various sets of assumptions. One strand of this...”

“...I review recent work in the statistics literature on instrumental variables methods from an econometrics perspective. I discuss some of the older, economic,...”

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

“...This paper develops a generalization of the widely used difference-in-differences method for evaluating the effects of policy changes. We propose a model that...”

“...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...”