Recent Developments in the Econometrics of Program Evaluation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5810568 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Guido W Imbens (0000-0002-4846-7326, Harvard University and NBER.), Jeffrey M Wooldridge (0000-0002-1579-6406, Michigan State University) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 5-86 |
| Publication date | 2009-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Economic Literature (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0515 • E-ISSN: 1547-1101 |
| Publisher | American Economic Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1257/jel.47.1.5 |
| OpenAlex | W3121385028 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 899 |
| References cited | 225 |
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 been done on the econometric and statistical analysis of such causal effects. This recent theoretical literature has built on, and combined features of, earlier work in both the statistics and econometrics literatures. It has by now reached a level of maturity that makes it an important tool in many areas of empirical research in economics, including labor economics, public finance, development economics, industrial organization, and other areas of empirical microeconomics. In this review, we discuss some of the recent developments. We focus primarily on practical issues for empirical researchers, as well as provide a historical overview of the area and give references to more technical research
Empirical research · Advanced Causal Inference Techniques · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · School Choice and Performance
Getting fit by doing good
Matching versus General Grants
Farmer field schools as environmental literacy commons and their role in socio-ecological outcomes in South-western Bangladesh
Additionality and reverse crowding out for pollution offsets in water quality trading
The Affordable Care Act’s Dependent Care Coverage and Mortality
The Effect of Firms' Phased Retirement Policies on the Labor Market Outcomes of Their Employees
Expected Foreign Military Intervention and Demand for State-Building
Spring Cleaning
Information Technology and Economic Change
Causality in Policy Studies
Selection Bias, Statistics of
Social transfers and growth
Do Payments for Environmental Services Affect Forest Cover? A Farm-Level Evaluation from Costa Rica
Rdrobust
Control Function Methods in Applied Econometrics
Energy Conservation “Nudges” and Environmentalist Ideology: Evidence From a Randomized Residential Electricity Field Experiment
Modeling college major choices using elicited measures of expectations and counterfactuals
Econometric Methods for Program Evaluation
Doubly robust difference-in-differences estimators
Efficient semiparametric estimation of multi-valued treatment effects under ignorability
Information from Markets Near and Far
Better Late Than Nothing
Implicit Stereotypes
Using propensity scores in difference-in-differences models to estimate the effects of a policy change
Compulsory Licensing
Conditions associated with protected area success in conservation and poverty reduction
Internet use and depression among older adults
Optimal Data-Driven Regression Discontinuity Plots
Impacts of a Prekindergarten Program on Children's Mathematics, Language, Literacy, Executive Function, and Emotional Skills
No Child Left Behind
Cannabis use, attitudes, and legal status in the U.S.
Effect of oil palm sustainability certification on deforestation and fire in Indonesia
The Adoption of Genetically Modified Cotton and Poverty Reduction in Pakistan
Approaches and terminology for causal analysis in land systems science
Does Financial Education Impact Financial Literacy and Financial Behavior, and If So, When?
Advances in Measuring the Environmental and Social Impacts of Environmental Programs
Interpretation and identification of within-unit and cross-sectional variation in panel data models
Estimating causal effects
Using the Propensity Score Method to Estimate Causal Effects
Evaluation of biodiversity policy instruments
Machine Learning Methods That Economists Should Know About
The Estimation of Causal Effects by Difference-in-Difference Methods
Robust Data-Driven Inference in the Regression-Discontinuity Design
Unemployment and social exclusion
Agnostic notes on regression adjustments to experimental data
Social norms and energy conservation
The Power and Pitfalls of Experiments in Development Economics
School-Based Early Childhood Education and Age-28 Well-Being
Learning loss due to school closures during the Covid-19 pandemic
Labor Markets and Poverty in Village Economies
Financial Incentives and Student Achievement
Financial incentives in health
Channeling Fisher
Causal inference in statistics
The dual role of crop-livestock diversification in household nutrition security
Were the H artz Reforms Responsible for the Improved Performance of the G erman Labour Market?
Evidenzbasierte Wirtschaftspolitik in Deutschland
A decade of labour market reforms in the EU
Méthodes économétriques pour l’évaluation de politiques publiques
Did contracting effect the use of primary health care units in Pakistan
Assessing the role of climate change courses in promoting climate change awareness among university students in Bangladesh
The influence of passenger rail interventions in London on relative deprivation in affected station catchment areas
Enhancing Rural Children’s Cognitive Abilities Through Teacher Support
Consequences of increased farm resilience on food security in Tajikistan
Are women who marry eldest sons happier? Evidence from Japan
Effectiveness of Agricultural extension workers (AEWs) in technology adoption
Impact of an educational robot-based intervention on second-graders computational thinking skills
Shadow Economies and Sustainable Development in Africa
Regulations, Openness, and Competition
Covid-19
‘Upgrading the farm’
Improving Parenting Practices for Child Development
The effect of EU membership on tourism in Croatia
The rewards of municipal broadband
The impact of public banks on municipalities
Do municipal unions improve cost efficiency for the social function? A quasi‐experimental endogenous stochastic frontier approach
The effect of sport in online dating
The long-term impact of adolescent migration on the employment quality of Chinese rural migrant workers
Unpacking the multidimensional impact of international remittances on women’s empowerment in Africa
Determinants of organic fertilizer adoption and its implications for poverty reduction among farming households in Nigeria
Exploring agriculture-tourism Nexus
Crossbred poultry adoption and impact
Impact of certification on market performance of cocoa industry in Osun State, Nigeria
From pixels to policy
Health benefits versus economic costs
Long-term care insurance and multidimensional poverty of middle-aged and elderly
Study Designs to Assess Real-World Interventions to Prevent Covid-19
Understanding Spatiotemporal Variations of Ridership by Multiple Taxi Services
(Im)balance in household balance sheet in the aftermath of a natural disaster
Diagnostic framework for causal inference in seasonal urban flooding
Assessing the impact of governance policies on landslide risk in Brazilian municipalities
Impact of future tsunamis from the Java trench on household welfare
Effect of forest fires on housing prices
The Impact of a Homegrown School-Feeding Intervention on Children’s Educational Outcomes in Low-Income Countries
Spend it, save it, or transfer it
Segregation, fertility, and son preference
Overeducation wage penalty for university graduates
The impact of near-real-time deforestation alerts across the tropics
Early signs that the EU carbon border adjustment mechanism is reshaping EU–India steel trade
The effect of carbon farming training on food security and development resilience in Northern Ghana
Statistical analysis with missing data
Regression Discontinuity Design
An Introduction to the Bootstrap
Matched Sampling for Causal Effects
Causality
Schooling and Labor Market Consequences of School Construction in Indonesia
Assignment to Treatment Group on the Basis of a Covariate
Some Practical Issues in the Evaluation of Heterogeneous Labour Market Programmes by Matching Methods
Implementing Matching Estimators for Average Treatment Effects in Stata
Estimating the Labor Market Impact of Voluntary Military Service Using Social Security Data on Military Applicants
Sensitivity to Exogeneity Assumptions in Program Evaluation
Peer Effects with Random Assignment
Invited Commentary
Estimating the Effect of Financial Aid Offers on College Enrollment
Multivariate and Propensity Score Matching Software with Automated Balance Optimization
Characterizing Selection Bias Using Experimental Data
Bootstrap Tests for Distributional Treatment Effects in Instrumental Variable Models
Assessing Sensitivity to an Unobserved Binary Covariate in an Observational Study with Binary Outcome
Estimating the Effect of Unearned Income on Labor Earnings, Savings, and Consumption
Dealing with limited overlap in estimation of average treatment effects
Monotone Instrumental Variables
Structural Equations, Treatment Effects, and Econometric Policy Evaluation1
Analysis of Semiparametric Regression Models for Repeated Outcomes in the Presence of Missing Data
Semiparametric instrumental variable estimation of treatment response models
The Impact of Nearly Universal Insurance Coverage on Health Care Utilization
Matching to Remove Bias in Observational Studies
Compulsory Licensing
Estimating the Return to Schooling
The role of the propensity score in estimating dose-response functions
Estimation of Causal Effects using Propensity Score Weighting
Combining Propensity Score Matching with Additional Adjustments for Prognostic Covariates
The Adoption of Genetically Modified Cotton and Poverty Reduction in Pakistan
Does School Integration Generate Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston's Metco Program
The Nonparametric Identification of Treatment Effects in Duration Models
Do Better Schools Matter? Parental Valuation of Elementary Education
Do Voters Affect or Elect Policies? Evidence from the U. S. House
In Pursuit of Balance
Covariance Adjustment in Randomized Experiments and Observational Studies
A Generalization of Sampling Without Replacement from a Finite Universe
The Effect of Information on Product Quality
Efficient Semiparametric Estimation of Quantile Treatment Effects
Two-Stage Least Squares Estimation of Average Causal Effects in Models with Variable Treatment Intensity
Pseudo Maximum Likelihood Methods
Does matching overcome LaLonde's critique of nonexperimental estimators?
Minimum Wages and Employment
Large Sample Properties of Matching Estimators for Average Treatment Effects
Identification and Inference in Nonlinear Difference-in-Differences Models
An IV Model of Quantile Treatment Effects
The Role of Information and Social Interactions in Retirement Plan Decisions
The Consquences of Adjustment for a Concomitant Variable That Has Been Affected by the Treatment
Inverse probability weighted M-estimators for sample selection, attrition, and stratification
Crime and Social Interactions
The Propensity Score with Continuous Treatments
Semiparametric Efficiency in Multivariate Regression Models with Missing Data
Regression-discontinuity analysis
Estimation of Average Treatment Effects Based on Propensity Scores
The Effectiveness of Adjustment by Subclassification in Removing Bias in Observational Studies
Empirical Strategies in Labor Economics
Randomized experiments from non-random selection in U.S. House elections
Inverse probability weighted estimation for general missing data problems
Formal mode of statistical inference for causal effects
Social norms and energy conservation
The Statistical Implications of a System of Simultaneous Equations
Exogeneity
On the Role of the Propensity Score in Efficient Semiparametric Estimation of Average Treatment Effects
Pseudo Maximum Likelihood Methods
A critical appraisal of propensity‐score matching in the medical literature between 1996 and 2003
Some Thoughts on the Distribution of Earnings 1
Root-N-Consistent Semiparametric Regression
Matching As An Econometric Evaluation Estimator
Identification and Estimation of Treatment Effects with a Regression-Discontinuity Design
Estimating Causal Effects from Large Data Sets Using Propensity Scores
The Economics and Econometrics of Active Labor Market Programs
Matching Using Estimated Propensity Scores
Accounting for No-Shows in Experimental Evaluation Designs
Practical propensity score matching
Using Maimonides' Rule to Estimate the Effect of Class Size on Scholastic Achievement
Alternative methods for evaluating the impact of interventions
Remedying Education
Worms
Economic Impacts of New Unionization on Private Sector Employers
On the Application of Probability Theory to Agricultural Experiments. Essay on Principles. Section 9
Do Parties Matter for Economic Outcomes? A Regression-Discontinuity Approach
Efficient Estimation of Average Treatment Effects Using the Estimated Propensity Score
Reducing Bias in Observational Studies Using Subclassification on the Propensity Score
Causal Effects in Nonexperimental Studies
Long-Term Educational Consequences of Secondary School Vouchers
Regression discontinuity inference with specification error
Making The Most Out Of Programme Evaluations and Social Experiments
Semiparametric Difference-in-Differences Estimators
Confidence Intervals for Partially Identified Parameters
Does Head Start Improve Children's Life Chances? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
Instrumental Variables Estimates of the Effect of Subsidized Training on the Quantiles of Trainee Earnings
Bayesian Inference for Causal Effects
Inference and missing data
The central role of the propensity score in observational studies for causal effects
Identification of Causal Effects Using Instrumental Variables
Manipulation of the running variable in the regression discontinuity design
Matching As An Econometric Evaluation Estimator
Estimating causal effects of treatments in randomized and nonrandomized studies.
| Unique citing works | 899 |
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| Citations per year | 49,94 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2026 (19) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 892 |