Abstract: Treatment noncompliance is a common problem in program evaluation. The problem is particularly severe when the analyst is interested in causal mediation effects. This is because, somewhat counterintuitively, the...
Abstract: In this talk I will discuss the common problems data nerds face when they work in industry. Those include problems that academic statisticians face, of course, but also extend to other kinds of communication and political...
Abstract: The ability to model, forecast, and understand the behavioral dynamics and decision-making patterns of human agents has applications in many contexts. One particularly salient domain is the field of international security...
Abstract: Surrogates which allow one to predict the effect of the treatment on an outcome from the effect of the treatment on the surrogate are of interest when it is difficult or expensive to measure the primary outcome...
Abstract: This is an overview about own recent econometric work related to the modeling of heterogeneity in applied consumer demand models. The focus will be on non-parametric random coefficient models. The main application...
Author: Jason AnastasopoulosAbstract: Understanding what motivates animus toward undocumented immigrants presents several empirical challenges. Estimates of undocumented immigrants at the state and metropolitan area level are unreliable, rendering...
