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SUMMARY:Cesi Cruz\, University of California\, Los Angeles\, "Reducing Vaccine Hesitancy in Polarized Societies"
DESCRIPTION:Biography:\nCesi Cruz is an Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Graduate Studies in the Department of Political Science at the University of California\, Los Angeles. She works on topics at the intersection of political science and economics\, including elections\, misinformation\, gender and inclusive development. Her research is based on fieldwork in Cambodia and the Philippines and combines social network analysis\, surveys\, and field experiments. Her work has been published in outlets such as the American Political Science Review\, American Economic Review\, American Journal of Political Science\, Economic Journal\, and Comparative Political Studies. \nCesi is a board member of Experiments in Governance and Politics (EGAP)\, the Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics (SIOE)\, and Empirical Studies of Conflict (ESOC). In addition\, she serves on the executive board of Women Also Know Stuff\, an organization to promote women’s scholarship in political science. Her projects and working papers are available on her website: www.cesicruz.com . \nReducing Vaccine Hesitancy In Polarized Societies\nAbstract:\nGovernments attempting to encourage their citizens to take socially beneficial but individ- ually costly actions face strong challenges\, especially in polarized societies. We designed interventions to make citizens reflect on the personal and social benefits of vaccination and implemented a survey experiment on a sample of 1\,900 Filipinos in May 2021\, around the start of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign in the Philippines. Using data collected a year later\, we find that treated individuals received their first dose earlier. Those effects are large: treated individuals were 5.3 percentage-points more likely to receive their first dose within a month of the first survey\, compared with a control group mean of 2.1 percent. Individuals who were positive about vaccination at baseline respond more strongly to the treatments\, suggesting that the interventions motivated and encouraged individuals to become vaccinated\, rather than persuading people who were against vaccination to become vaccinated. In fact\, these strong positive short term effects mask important negative effects among the sample of individuals who were not planning to be vaccinated at baseline: the treatments had small negative effects on the likelihood of being vaccinated at endline.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/cesi-cruz-university-of-california-los-angeles/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231115T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231115T131500
DTSTAMP:20231113T195504Z
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SUMMARY:Bryce Steinberg\, Brown University\, "Family Planning\, Now and Later: Infertility Fear and Contraception Take-Up"
DESCRIPTION:Biography:\nBryce Millett Steinberg is a development economist who studies how households make decisions about investing in education and health\, and how market forces and government programs can affect those decisions. Her work is primarily focused in India and Zambia. She is currently the IJC Assistant Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs at Brown University\, and received her Ph.D. from Harvard in 2015. \nFamily Planning\, Now and Later: Infertility Fear and Contraception Take-Up\nAbstract:\nEarly fertility is believed to be one of the key barriers to female human capital attainment in Sub-Saharan Africa\, yet contraception take-up remains low\, even among highly-educated populations with healthcare access. We study a barrier to contraceptive uptake that has not yet been examined in the literature: the persistent belief that it may cause later infertility\, thus creating a perceived tradeoff between current and future reproductive control. We use a randomized controlled trial with female undergraduates at the flagship university in Zambia – a highly-skilled population where education is likely to have particularly high returns – to test two potential interventions to increase contraception use\, one focused on time costs and one on costs to future fertility. Despite high rates of sexual activity and low rates of condom-use\, only 5% of this population uses hormonal contraception at baseline. Providing a non-coercive conditional cash transfer to visit a local clinic temporarily increases contraceptive use. But\, pairing this transfer with information addressing fears that contraceptives cause infertility permanently increases take-up over 6 months. The latter treatment moves beliefs about the infertility effects of contraceptives and leads to the take-up of longer-lasting contraceptives like injections. Compliers are more likely to cite fear of infertility as the reason for not using contraceptives at baseline. A follow-up experiment provides suggestive evidence that students are more likely to test for STIs when they are told STIs cause infertility. These findings indicate that perceived risks to future fertility are one cost of contraception\, and more generally that future fertility has economic value to women. \nTo learn more about Professor Bryce Steinberg\, visit her department homepage:\nBryce Millett Steinberg | Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs (brown.edu)
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/bryce-steinberg-brown-university/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231129T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231129T131500
DTSTAMP:20260210T232735Z
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SUMMARY:Clémence Tricaud\, University of California\, Los Angeles\, "Gender and Electoral Incentives: Evidence from Crisis Response"
DESCRIPTION:Bio:\nClémence Tricaud is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. She is also a research affiliate of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and an affiliate member of the CESifo. She received her Ph.D in Economics from Ecole Polytechnique and CREST in 2020. Her research lies at the intersection of political economy and public economics. Her work combines quasi-experimental designs with administrative data to better understand the determinants and consequences of citizen and policymaker behaviors. The first part of her research studies the factors affecting voters’ and candidates’ behavior during elections and the consequences of their choices on electoral outcomes. The second part of her work explores how the identity of policymakers and the level of governance affect the design of local public policies and the provision of public goods. \n“Gender and Electoral Incentives: Evidence from Crisis Response”\nAbstract:\nThis paper provides new evidence on why men and women leaders make different choices. We first illustrate\, using a simple political agency model\, how voters’ gender bias can lead reelection-seeking female politicians to undertake different policies. We then test the predictions of the model by exploring female and male leaders’ responses to the COVID-19 crisis. Assuming that voters expect policies to be less effective if decided by women\, the model predicts that female politicians undertake less containment effort when voters perceive the threat as low – such as at the beginning of the pandemic – while the opposite is true when voters perceive it as serious – once the health consequences have become apparent. Using a close election design in Brazil\, we find that\, in line with the model\, having a female mayor led to more deaths per capita at first\, but to a lower death rate later in the year. Moreover\, using new data on policies\, we show that female mayors were less likely to close non-essential businesses early on\, but then became more likely to do so. Consistent with electoral incentives and voters’ gender bias explaining these effects\, we show that the gender differences we find are driven exclusively by mayors facing reelection and that the effects are stronger in more competitive races and in municipalities with greater gender discrimination. All in all\, our paper shows that gender differences in leaders’ behavior can be explained by leaders’ incentives to adapt their policy choices to voters’ gender biases. \nA recording of this event can be found here. \nTo learn more about Professor Clémence Tricaud\, visit her department homepage here: \nClémence Tricaud | UCLA Anderson School of Management
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/development-workshop/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CCPR Workshop,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231206T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231206T131500
DTSTAMP:20231202T010215Z
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SUMMARY:Alex Bell\, University of California\, Los Angeles\, "The Long-Term Impacts of Mentors: Evidence from Experimental and Administrative Data"
DESCRIPTION:Biography:\nAlex Bell is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the California Policy Lab at UCLA. Dr. Bell’s research seeks to document the unequal experiences of workers in the labor market and the implications of these inequalities for society as a whole. He is also interested in the intersection of labor market inequality with innovation. He often collaborates with government and non-profit partners to leverage large-scale administrative datasets that allow him to combine academic research with policy impact. Prior to joining CPL\, Dr. Bell earned a PhD in Economics from Harvard University. At CPL\, Dr. Bell is part of a team focused on labor and employment. In this role\, he leads economic analyses and authors academic papers and policy briefs. \nThe Long-Term Impacts of Mentors: Evidence from Experimental and Administrative Data\nAbstract:\nHow do mentors shape kids’ identities and later-life outcomes? To evaluate this question\, we leverage program administrative records and microdata from a 1991 RCT that randomized disadvantaged children’s eligibility for a popular mentoring program. Our re-analysis of the multitude of outcomes collected by the original short-run survey suggests that kids’ behaviors improved during the time they were with mentors. A linkage to later-life administrative tax records shows that treated youth were 10 percentage points more likely to attend college and also showed positive (though less significant) effects on teen birth and marriage. RCT estimates of earnings effects are imprecise. However\, using a larger dataset of program administrative records\, we develop a supplementary research design comparing matched versus unmatched applicants that replicates key findings from the RCT\, and also reveals significant long-term positive earnings gains from program participation on the order of 20%. Through the lens of a model in which adults of differing socioeconomic status influence kids’ decision-making\, we estimate that mentors may have the potential to mitigate on the order of 2/3 of the disadvantage that ordinarily hampers low-income childrens’ socioeconomic trajectories in adulthood. Although our estimates suggest that mentoring programs will not fully equalize economic opportunities for disadvantaged youth\, the program’s relatively low costs and substantial benefits may place it among the most cost-effective interventions of its type to be evaluated. \nTo learn more about Dr. Alex Bell\, visit his department homepage here: \nAlex Bell | California Policy Lab
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/alex-bell-university-of-california-los-angeles/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240110T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240110T131500
DTSTAMP:20260210T235354Z
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SUMMARY:Emily Weisburst\, University of California\, Los Angeles\, "Immigration Enforcement and Public Safety"
DESCRIPTION:Biography:\nEmily Weisburst is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Luskin School of Public Affairs at the University of California\, Los Angeles. Weisburst’s work focuses on topics in labor economics\, including criminal justice\, education and immigration. Her research interests include understanding factors that impact police decision-making and public trust in police\, as well as how interactions with the criminal justice system affect individuals\, families and communities. Weisburst earned her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin. While in graduate school\, she worked as a Staff Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers in the Executive Office of the President and as a research associate for the RAND Corporation on joint projects with the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. Weisburst’s work has been funded by the Russell Sage Foundation\, the Carnegie Foundation\, and the National Academy of Education\, as well as by several UCLA organizations\, including the UCLA Racial and Social Justice Grants Program\, the Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy\, the Ziman Center for Real Estate\, the California Center for Population Research\, and the California Policy Lab. \n“Immigration Enforcement and Public Safety”\nAbstract:\nHow does immigration enforcement affect public safety? While heightened enforcement could decrease crime by incapacitating offenders\, public safety could suffer if victims become less willing to report crimes. We examine the implementation of the federal Secure Communities program\, which significantly increased the volume of detentions and deportations of unauthorized immigrants. Using survey data from the U.S. Census Bureau\, we find that Hispanic victims are less likely to report crimes to the police and Hispanic individuals are more likely to become victims of a crime after the program’s introduction. These two opposing effects lead to a null impact on reported crimes. We provide evidence that the decline in Hispanic reporting is a key channel driving their increased victimization. Our findings underscore the importance of directly measuring victim reporting for understanding the impact of criminal justice policies. \nA recording of this event can be found here. \nTo learn more about Professor Emily Weisburst\, visit her department homepage here: \nEmily Weisburst | Luskin School of Public Affairs | Public Policy
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/emily-weisburst-university-of-california-los-angeles/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240117T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240117T131500
DTSTAMP:20240116T221245Z
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SUMMARY:Philip Massey\, University of California\, Los Angeles "Social Media as a Tool for Public Health Communication"
DESCRIPTION:Biography:\nDr. Philip M. Massey\, PhD\, MPH\, is an Associate Professor in Community Health Sciences in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. His health communication scholarship focuses on media and technology in the U.S. and globally\, on topics ranging from social media\, vaccine communication\, health literacy\, entertainment education\, and ethics in social media research. His work takes a mixed-methods approach focusing on health and media literacy in the context of multiple media environments. He has examined patterns and shifts in public opinion toward HPV vaccination on Twitter and Instagram\, focusing on what types of messages are shared and how content is related to reach and impact. He has also developed and tested cancer prevention messages on social media to engage parents about the HPV vaccine\, leveraging the power of narrative engagement and storytelling\, and more recently extended this work to alcohol recovery. His global health work has examined the impact of media effects on health knowledge and attitudes\, specifically related to storytelling and narrative engagement among a West African population\, utilizing digital and social media. \n“Social Media as a Tool for Public Health Communication”\nAbstract:\nThe use of social media in public health has advanced the field dramatically over the last two decades. Traditional public health methods in surveillance and outbreak investigation\, approaches in health education and promotion\, and strategies in policy\, advocacy and community organizing have all been applied\, refined\, and adapted for the social media environment. This talk will focus on social media as a tool for public health communication and will cover various examples from applied research on the HPV vaccine and global health. Ethical considerations will also be discussed as guidelines when using social media for public health research must also expand alongside these increasing capabilities and uses.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/philip-massey-university-of-california-los-angeles/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240124T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240124T131500
DTSTAMP:20260210T233252Z
CREATED:20230928T231609Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260210T233252Z
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SUMMARY:Dowell Myers\, University of Southern California\, “Talking Demographics: Audience Reactions and Communication about Projections of Change”
DESCRIPTION:Biography:\nDowell Myers is a professor of policy\, planning\, and demography in the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy. His Ph.D. is from M.I.T. (urban planning). He has been an advisor to the Bureau of the Census and authored the widely referenced work on census analysis\, Analysis with Local Census Data: Portraits of Change (Academic Press\, 1992). His demographic work has included substantial emphasis on immigration\, and his 2007 book Immigrants and Boomers: Forging a New Social Contract for the Future of America is widely recognized. Myers also served on the National Academy of Sciences study panel on the Economic and Fiscal Impacts of Immigration (2013-16). Research projects have focused on public narratives about immigration\, aging\, and taxation\, projections of generational change\, and the upward mobility of immigrants the longer they reside in the U.S. Most recently\, he has concentrated on reasons for the mounting housing shortages that plague recent cohorts and raise the cost of living for all. This also includes public perceptions and reactions to demographic change as part of the problem analysis \n“Talking Demographics: Immigration\, Audience\, and Narratives”\nAbstract:\nDemographic narratives express interpretations and conclusions drawn from quantitative analysis of demographic change. Whereas professional demographers focus on estimation of change and statistical explanation\, the matter of public explanation and extraction of meaning is often left to others\, traditionally journalists in the news media\, but increasingly expanded to popular or political activists using social media. Reasons why professional demographers should take more responsibility and care for their public facing interpretations are demonstrated through two case examples. The first asks why it might appear from net changes that immigrants are “taking all the jobs” and “replacing” white Americans (while gross flows tell different stories). The second recounts difficulties the Census Bureau has encountered with their narratives in reports and press releases that accompany their population projections\, which include racial changes and trends in future immigration. How might stronger awareness of audience and purpose lead to less misleading and more constructive demographic narratives?\ \nA recording of this event can be found here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/dowell-myers-university-of-southern-california/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240131T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240131T131500
DTSTAMP:20240111T181027Z
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SUMMARY:Sameera Nayak\, University of Maryland\, Baltimore County: "Health in the Turbulent U.S. Sociopolitical Climate: Mental Health\, Abortion Attitudes\, & Immigration"
DESCRIPTION:Biography:\nDr. Sameera S. Nayak (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Public Health at the University of Maryland\, Baltimore County. She uses social epidemiologic and qualitative methods to investigate associations between social conditions and health inequities around the world. She has conducted research globally in the East African region as well as domestically in the U.S. Her research streams intersect around three main themes: (1) immigrant health\, immigration policy\, and legal status stratification\, (2) political determinants of health\, such as partisan polarization and abortion access\, and (3) equitable health system program development and evaluation. Her cross-cutting research bridges siloed work in public health\, sociology\, and political science. Some of her recent projects include identifying structural and legal barriers to help-seeking for immigrants who have experienced gender-based violence\, assessing the adverse health impacts of perceived political polarization\, mapping state-level alignment between abortion legislation and public attitudes\, and examining how the spectrum of legal statuses at the micro-level impact the well-being of non-naturalized immigrants in the U.S. Dr. Nayak earned her Ph.D. in Population Health from Northeastern University in 2022. She holds an undergraduate degree from UCLA and a master’s degree from Columbia University. \nHealth in the Turbulent U.S. Sociopolitical Climate: Mental Health\, Abortion Attitudes\, & Immigration\nAbstract: \nThe sociopolitical landscape of the United States (U.S.)\, including laws\, policies\, and societal values\, creates conditions that differentially enhance or diminish population health. This talk will describe a program of research examining how polarization and hostility shape people’s lives\, health\, and behaviors across multiple levels of influence and domains of health in the U.S. How do perceptions of growing polarization in American society affect the onset of health conditions such as anxiety and depressive disorders? To what extent does polarized legislation at the state level align with public attitudes toward abortion access and legality? How are immigrant domestic violence survivors’ lives shaped by an increasingly hostile political climate? To answer these questions\, I draw on three observational studies that leverage data from primary surveys\, focus groups\, the 2020 Cooperative Congressional Election Study\, and the Guttmacher Institute’s 2020 rating of state abortion policies. Results highlight the adverse mental health effects of deepening perceived political polarization\, the disconnect between multifaceted public attitudes and polarized reproductive health legislation\, and the detrimental individual-level impacts of dehumanizing immigration policy. Population health implications\, structural interventions\, and policy recommendations will be discussed.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/sameera-nayak-university-of-maryland-baltimore-county/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240410T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240410T131500
DTSTAMP:20231005T231635Z
CREATED:20231005T003539Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231005T231635Z
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SUMMARY:Student PAA Practice Talk (Development Workshop)
DESCRIPTION:Details TBA
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/development-workshop-student-paa/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CCPR Workshop,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240417
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240421
DTSTAMP:20231005T190759Z
CREATED:20231005T190614Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231005T190759Z
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SUMMARY:PAA 2024 Annual Meeting at Columbus\, Ohio
DESCRIPTION:Details to be added later.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/paa-2024-annual-meeting-at-columbus-ohio/
LOCATION:Columbus\, Ohio Hyatt Regency Columbus\, Hyatt Regency Columbus\, Columbus\, OH\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Conference,CCPR Seminar,CCPR Workshop,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240515T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240515T160000
DTSTAMP:20260210T225332Z
CREATED:20230929T005702Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260210T225332Z
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SUMMARY:Christopher Walters\, University of California\, Berkeley (STC Workshop)\, Title: Empirical Bayes and large-scale inference.
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Christopher Walters is an Associate Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of California\, Berkeley. Dr. Walters joined the faculty at Berkeley after completing his PhD in economics at MIT in 2013. He is also a Research Associate in the NBER programs on education and labor studies\, an IZA Research Fellow and an affiliate of JPAL-North America and MIT’s Blueprint Labs. His academic research focuses on topics in labor economics\, the economics of education\, and applied econometrics\, including work on school choice\, early childhood programs\, methods for evaluating school quality\, experimental measurement of labor market discrimination\, causal inference\, and empirical Bayes methods. \nAbstract: This workshop will cover empirical Bayes methods for studying heterogeneity\, estimating individual effects\, and making decisions in settings with many unit-specific parameters. Examples include studies of school\, teacher\, and physician quality; neighborhood effects on economic mobility; firm effects on wages; employer-specific labor market discrimination; and individualized treatment effect predictions and policy recommendations. Topics will include methods for quantifying variation in effects\, empirical Bayes shrinkage\, connections to machine learning methods\, and large-scale inference tools for multiple testing and decision-making. The lecture will be accompanied by coding examples. \nA recording of this event can be found here
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/christopher-walters-university-of-california-berkeley/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CCPR Workshop,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240522T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240522T160000
DTSTAMP:20240517T220405Z
CREATED:20230929T005920Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240517T220405Z
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SUMMARY:Peter Hull\, Brown University\, "Formula Instruments" (STC Workshop)
DESCRIPTION:Biography:\nPeter Hull is a Professor of Economics at Brown University\, a Faculty Research Fellow in the NBER Labor Studies\, Education\, and Health Care programs in Labor Studies\, and the econometrics editor at the Review of Economics and Statistics. His research spans a variety of topics in applied econometrics\, education\, health care\, discrimination\, and criminal justice. He was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in 2023 in recognition of this work. \nFormula Instruments\nAbstract:\nMany studies in economics use instruments or treatments which combine a set of exogenous shocks with other predetermined variables by a known formula. Examples include shift-share instruments\, measures of social or spatial spillovers\, and treatments capturing eligibility for a public policy. This workshop reviews recent econometric tools for this setting\, which leverage the assignment process of the exogenous shocks and the structure of the formula for identification. Practical insights will be illustrated with two empirical applications and a coding lab.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/peter-hull-brown-university/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CCPR Workshop,Divisional Publish
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