JJ Heckman, H Ichimura… - The review of economic studies, 1997 - JSTOR
Page 1. Review of Economic Studies (1997) 64, 605-654 0034-6527/97/00280605$02.00 ?
1997 The Review of Economic Studies Limited Matching As An Econometric Evaluation
Estimator: Evidence from Evaluating a Job Training Programme ...
JJ Heckman, H Ichimura… - Review of Economic …, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
This paper develops the method of matching as an econometric evaluation estimator. A
rigorous distribution theory for kernel-based matching is presented. The method of matching
is extended to more general conditions than the ones assumed in the statistical literature ...
J Hahn, P Todd… - Econometrica, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Ž. THE REGRESSION DISCONTINUITY RD data design is a quasi-experimental design with
the defining characteristic that the probability of receiving treatment changes discontinuously
as a function of one or more underlying variables. This data design arises frequently in ...
PE Todd… - The Economic Journal, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
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Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES FIFTY YEARS OF MINCER EARNINGS
REGRESSIONS James J. Heckman Lance J. Lochner Petra E. Todd Working Paper
9732 http://www.nber.org/papers/w9732 NATIONAL BUREAU ...
JJ Heckman, LJ Lochner… - Handbook of the Economics of …, 2006 - Elsevier
J Knowles, N Persico… - 1999 - nber.org
African-American motorist in the United States are much more likely than white motorists to
have their car searched by police checking for illegal drugs and other contraband. The
courts are faced with the task of deciding on the basis of traffic-search data whether police ...
J Heckman, A Layne-Farrar… - The Review of Economics and …, 1996 - JSTOR
This paper formulates and estimates alternative models for the pricing of labor services. We
present economic models that rationalize empirical specifications in the literature and we
offer evidence on the validity of those specifications. Widely used efficiency units models ...
PE Todd… - Journal of Human capital, 2007 - JSTOR
JR Behrman, P Sengupta… - Economic development and cultural …, 2005 - JSTOR
Abstract A new antipoverty program in Mexico, PROGRESA, provides monetary transfers to
families that are contingent upon their children's regular attendance at school. The benefit
levels vary with the grade level and gender of the child and are intended to offset the ...
JR Behrman, Y Cheng… - Review of Economics and Statistics, 2004 - MIT Press
Page 1. EVALUATING PRESCHOOL PROGRAMS WHEN LENGTH OF EXPOSURE
TO THE PROGRAM VARIES: A NONPARAMETRIC APPROACH Jere R. Behrman,
Yingmei Cheng, and Petra E. Todd* Abstract—Nonexperimental ...
This paper examines the economic and empirical foundations of the aggregate evidence on
the effect of schooling quality on earnings. A common framework is presented which nests
all previous studies as special cases. We discuss two crucial identifying assumptions and ...
JA Smith… - The American Economic Review, 2001 - JSTOR
Page 1. Reconciling Conflicting Evidence on the Performance of Propensity-Score
Matching Methods By JEFFREY A. SMITH AND PETRA E. TODD* There is a
long-standing debate in the lit- erature over whether social programs ...
PE Todd… - The American economic review, 2006 - ingentaconnect.com
Page 1. Assessing the Impact of a School Subsidy Program in Mexico: Using a Social
Experiment to Validate a Dynamic Behavioral Model of Child Schooling and Fertility
By PETRA E. TODD AND KENNETH I. WOLPIN* This ...
JR Behrman… - … Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC, 1999 - ifpri.org
... this paper should be sent to Jere R. Behrman, Economics, McNeil 160, 3718 Locust Walk,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6297, USA; telephone 215 898 7704, fax
215 898 2124, e-mail jbehrman@econ.sas.upenn.edu or to Petra Todd, Economics, McNeil ...
J Behrman, P Segupta… - 2001 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: A new anti-poverty program in Mexico, PROGRESA, provides monetary transfers to
families that are contingent upon their children's regular attendance at school. The benefit
levels are intended to offset the opportunity costs of not sending children to school and ...
P Todd… - PIER Working Paper No. 03-022, 2003 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: This paper studies the performance of a methodology that can be used to evaluate
the impact of new policies that radically depart from existing ones. It uses data gathered from
a randomized schooling subsidy experiment in Mexico (i) to estimate and validate a ...
JJ Heckman, H Ichimura… - Proceedings of the …, 1996 - National Acad Sciences
This paper decomposes the conventional measure of selection bias in observational studies
into three components. The first two components are due to differences in the distributions of
characteristics between participant and nonparticipant (comparison) group members: the ...
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES EARNINGS FUNCTIONS AND RATES
OF RETURN James J. Heckman Lance J. Lochner Petra E. Todd Working Paper 13780
http://www.nber.org/papers/w13780 NATIONAL BUREAU ...
JJ Heckman, TM Lyons… - The American Economic Review, 2000 - JSTOR
Page 1. Understanding Black-White Wage Differentials, 1960-1990 By JAMES J.
HECKMAN, THOMAS M. LYONS, AND PETRA E. TODD* Relative improvements
in years of schooling and quality of schooling are widely acknowl ...
AA de Mesa, D Bravo, JR Behrman, OS Mitchell… - 2006 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE CHILEAN PENSION REFORM TURNS
25: LESSONS FROM THE SOCIAL PROTECTION SURVEY Alberto Arenas de Mesa
David Bravo Jere R. Behrman Olivia S. Mitchell Petra E. Todd ...
JR Behrman, P Sengupta… - International …, 2000 - evaluacion.oportunidades.gob.mx
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Increasing human capital investments in children is considered to
be among the most effective ways of alleviating poverty and encouraging growth in
developing countries. One possibly important channel through which such investments ...
PE Todd - Handbook of development economics, 2007 - Elsevier
[CITATION] A practical guide to implementing matching estimators
P Todd - Guide prepared for IADB meeting, October, 1999
H Ichimura… - Handbook of Econometrics, 2007 - Elsevier
PE Todd… - PIER (Penn Institute for Economic Research) …, 2006 - papers.ssrn.com
Page 1. by http://ssrn.com/abstract=931393 Petra E. Todd and Kenneth I. Wolpin
“Ex Ante Evaluation of Social Programs” PIER Working Paper 06-022 Penn Institute
for Economic Research Department of Economics University ...
JJ Donohue III,
JJ Heckman… - The Quarterly Journal of …, 2002 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
... Overall, this composi- tional effect does not account for much of the racial wage disparity, and
does not alter the story of sharp black relative teacher salary gains in the 1940s. A table showing
the adjusted wage ratios is available from Petra Todd upon request. ...
JR Behrman, SW Parker… - Ibero America Institute for Econ …, 2005 - ideas.repec.org
Downloadable! This paper studies the long-term effects of participation in the Mexican
Oportunidades program on a variety of outcomes and behaviors of rural youth in Mexico. It
analyzes data from a social experiment, which randomly phased-in the program in rural Mexican ...
[CITATION] Adapting propensity score matching and selection models to choice-based samples
J Heckman… - Unpublished Manuscript, University of Chicago, 1995
P Todd - Palgrave Dictionary of Economics', Palgrave …, 2006 - athena.sas.upenn.edu
Matching is a widely-used nonexperimental method of evaluation that can be used to
estimate the average effect of a treatment or program intervention. The method compares
the outcomes of program participants with those of matched nonparticipants, where ...
This paper investigates the economic and empirical foundations of the evidence relating
earnings to schooling quality. We replicate the Card-Krueger model for Census years 1970,
1980 and 1990 and find that it consistently produces a strong relationship between ...
N Persico… - The Economic Journal, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
The authors are grateful to the NSF for financial support under grants 0422863 and
0617507. The first author also gratefully acknowledges support in the form of a Sloan
Research Fellowship. We thank Charles Manski, Steven Machin and an anonymous ...
JR Behrman, SW Parker… - Poverty, Inequality and …, 2009 - gilles.spielvogel.free.fr
Page 1. 7 Medium-Term Impacts of the Oportunidades Conditional Cash Transfer
Program on Rural Youth in Mexico Jere R. Behrman, Susan W. Parker, and Petra
E. Todd 7.1 Introduction Governments throughout Latin America ...
N Persico… - The American economic review, 2005 - JSTOR
Page 1. Passenger Profiling, Imperfect Screening, and Airport Security By NICOLA
PERSICO AND PETRA E. TODD* The need for greater airport security has re- cently
led to major changes in passenger screen- ing procedures. ...
[CITATION] Technical note on using matching estimators to evaluate the Oportunidades program for six year follow-up Evaluation of Oportunidades in rural areas
P Todd - Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 2004
JR Behrman, SW Parker… - Technical document, 2004 - sarpn.org
Page 1. Technical Document Number 9 on the Evaluation of Oportunidades 2004 Medium-Term
Effects of the Oportunidades Program Package, including Nutrition, on Education of Rural Children
Age 0-8 in 1997 by Jere R. Behrman, Susan W. Parker and Petra E. Todd* ...
[CITATION] Using experimental data to validate a dynamic behavioral model of child schooling: Assessing the impact of a school subsidy program in Mexico
P Todd… - American Economic Review, 2006
JR Behrman, SW Parker… - Economic development and …, 2009 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
[CITATION] A report on the sample sizes used for the evaluation of the education, health and nutrition program (PROGRESA) of Mexico
JR Behrman… - … Food Policy Research Institute: Washington, DC, 1999
[CITATION] Matching as an econometric evaluation estimator: evidence from evaluating a job training programme
HJ James, H Ichimura… - The Review of Economic Studies, 1997
N Persico… - 2004 - nber.org
This paper considers the use of outcomes-based tests for detecting racial bias in the context
of police searches of motor vehicles. It shows that the test proposed in Knowles, Persico and
Todd (2001) can also be applied in a more general environment where police officers are ...
OS Mitchell, P Todd… - Overcoming the Saving Slump: …, 2008 - books.google.com
Notwithstanding the system's success, politicians have recently proposed reforms in this
decentralized, private structure, in response to relatively low coverage rates and
commissions/fees that some say are excessive. 3 Low coverage rates are attributed to the ...
JR Behrman, SW Parker… - University of Pennsylvania and …, 2007 - cide.edu.mx
Page 1. Do School Subsidy Programs Generate Lasting Benefits? A Five-Year
Follow-Up of Oportunidades Participants by Jere R. Behrman, Susan W. Parker and
Petra E. Todd* Revised version: March 2007 * This work received ...
JJ Heckman… - The econometrics journal, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
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Nov from 10-12 GMT for monthly maintenance. ...
N Persico… - Justice Quarterly, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
[CITATION] Towards a unified approach for modeling the production function for cognitive achievement
P Todd… - Economic Journal, 2003
S Stern… - 2000 - emeraldinsight.com
Abstract: This chapter discusses several testable implications of Lazear's (1979) model of
mandatory retirement and tests whether they are consistent with the data, using a sample
from the National Longitudinal Survey of Mature Men. Empirical evidence on the close ...
[CITATION] Matching and Local Linear Regression Approaches to Solving the Evaluation Problem with a Semiparametric Propensity Score
P Todd - University of Chicago: Mimeo, 1995
A De Paula, G Shapira… - 2011 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: This paper examines how beliefs about own HIV status affect decisions to engage
in risky sexual behavior, as measured by having extramarital sex and/or multiple sex
partners. The empirical analysis is based on a panel survey of males from the 2006 and ...
PE Todd… - Annales d'Économie et de Statistique, 2008 - JSTOR
... CLASSIFICATION: I28,120, J13, J22, C53, C14 * Petra Todd and Kenneth Wolpin
are Professors of Economics at the University of Pennsyl vania, 3718 Locust Walk,
Philadelphia, PA 19104. We thank Jere Behrman, Andrew Foster ...
J Eeckhout, N Persico… - The American Economic …, 2010 - ingentaconnect.com
Page 1. 1104 American Economic Review 100 (June 2010): 1104–1135 http://www.aeaweb.
org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/aer.100.3.1104 Police often engage in “crackdowns” on
crime, which are intermittent periods of high inten- sity policing. ...
SW Parker, PE Todd… - manuscript, University of …, 2005 - athena.sas.upenn.edu
Page 1. Within-Family Treatment Effect Estimators: the Impact of Oportunidades
on Schooling in Mexico1 Susan W. Parker, Petra E. Todd, Kenneth I. Wolpin
September 13, 2005 1This research was supported by a grant from ...
[CITATION] Matching as an Econometric Evaluation Estimator: Evidence from Evaluating a Job Training Program
H Ichimura… - Review of Economic Studies, 1997
[CITATION] Understanding black-white wage differentials over the last fifty years
J Heckman, T Lyons… - Unpublished manuscript, University of Chicago, 1999
SW Parker, P Todd… - Universidad de Pennsylvania, …, 2006 - works.bepress.com
Abstract This paper explores the use of dynamic panel data models and sibling-based
estimation procedures for evaluating the effects of educational interventions aimed at
children or youth. It specifies statistical models of the schooling decision that are ...
[CITATION] Is matching the answer to LaLonde's critique of nonexperimental methods?
J Smith… - Journal of Econometrics, 2003
[CITATION] Medium-term effects on education, work, marriage and migration in rural areas
SW Parker, JR Behrman… - Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, …, 2004
[CITATION] Assessing the performance of alternative estimators of program impacts: A study of adult men and women in JTPA
J Heckman… - Unpublished manuscript.(Available from the author, …, 1996
[CITATION] Essays on empirical methods for evaluating the impact of policy interventions in education and training
PE Todd - 1996 - PhD dissertation. University of …
[CITATION] Nonparametric characterization of selection bias using experimental data: A study of adult males in JTPA. Part II, Theory and Methods and Monte-Carlo …
J Heckman, H Ichimura, J Smith… - 1996 - mimeo, University of Chicago
P Todd - Technical note, SEDESOL, Mexico, 2004 - evaluacion.oportunidades.gob.mx
In 1997, a sample of 506 localities was drawn for the purpose of evaluating the impacts of
the PROGRESA program (now the Oportunidades program), which at that time was only
being implemented in rural areas. 320 of the localities were randomly selected to be ...
JR Behrman, SW Parker… - Journal of Human Resources, 2011 - jhr.uwpress.org
Page 1. THE JOURNAL OF HUMAN RESOURCES • 46 • 1 Do Conditional Cash
Transfers for Schooling Generate Lasting Benefits? A Five-Year Followup of
PROGRESA/Oportunidades Jere R. Behrman Susan W. Parker Petra E. Todd ...
MP Keane, PE Todd… - Handbook of Labor Economics, 2011 - Elsevier
[CITATION] Racial Bias in Motor Vehicle Searches: Theory and Evidence, 109 J
J Knowles, N Persico… - Pol. Econ, 2001
Thirty five years after passage of the Civil Rights Act, considerable controversy still sur
rounds the issue of whether federal legislation prohibiting discrimination played a significant
role in elevating the economic well being of African Americans. The literatures in law and ...
[CITATION] Long-Term Impacts of the Oportunidades Conditional Cash Transfer Program on Rural Youth in Mexico
JR Behrman, SW Parker… - 2006 - Ibero-Amerika Institut für …
[CITATION] Estimation of treatment effects with a quasiexperimental regression-discontinnity design: with application to evaluating the effect of federal …
J Hahn, P Todd… - 1998 - Mimeo.(Department of Economics, …
[CITATION] Fifty years of Mincer earnings equations
J Heckman, L Lochner… - 2004 - National Bureau of Economic …
[CITATION] Local Linear Approaches to Program Evaluation Using a Semiparametric Propensity Score
P Todd - University of Pennsylvania: mimeo, 1995
[CITATION] How details make a difference: Semiparametric estimation of the partially linear regression model
JJ Heckman, H Ichimura… - … manuscript, University of Chicago, Department of …, 1997
[CITATION] Progressing Through PROGRESSA: An Impact Assessment of a School Subsidy Program
J Behrman, P Sengupta… - University of Pennsylvania, Mimeo, PA, 2001
[CITATION] Randomness in the Experimental Samples of PROGRESA: Report Submitted to PROGRESA
J Behrman… - … Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC, 1999
[CITATION] 'Estimation of Treatment Effects with a Quasi-Experimental Regression-Discontinuity Design
J Hahn, P Todd… - University of Pennsylvania Department of …, 1997
[CITATION] Does Measured School Quality Really Matter? Understanding the Empirical and Economic Foundation of the Evidence
JJ Heckman, A Layne-Farrar… - University of Chicago, Department of …, 1994
[CITATION] The Longer-term Impacts of Mexico's Oportunidades School Subsidy Program on Educational Attainment, Cognitive Achievement andWork
J Behrman, S Parker… - México: INSP, 2005
[CITATION] The Production of Cognitive Achievement in Children: Home
PE Todd… - School and Racial Test Score Gaps, manuscript, …, 2004
Page 1. SOCIAL ACTION, PRIVATE CHOICE, AND PHILANTHROPY: UNDERSTANDING THE
SOURCES OF IMPROVEMENTS TN BLACK SCHOOLING IN GEORGIA, 1911-1960 John J.
Donohue III James J. Heckman Petra E. Todd Working Paper 6418 Page 2. ...
D Bravo, S Mukhopadhyay… - 2008 - repository.upenn.edu
... Petra Todd is Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. ... These data were collected
by the Microdata Center at the University of Chile, under the leadership of David Bravo, with
cofunding from an NIH grant to Petra Todd at the University of Pennsylvania. ...
P Todd… - 2009 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: This paper discusses the use of discrete choice dynamic programming (DCDP)
methods for evaluating policies of particular relevance to developing countries, such as
policies to reduce child labor and increase school attendance, to improve school quality, ...
[CITATION] The Impact of the Bolivian Integrated'PIDI'Preschool Program
JR Behrman, Y Cheng… - World Bank Research Foundation Project on …, 2000
[CITATION] Forthcoming.“Does Matching Overcome Lalonde's Critique of Nonexperimental Estimators?”
J Smith… - Journal of Econometrics
[CITATION] qUsing hit rates to test for racial bias in law enforcement, r University of Pennsylvania
N Persico… - 2005 - … 05&004, http://pier. econ. upenn. edu …
[CITATION] Does Matching Address Lalonde's Critique of Nonexperimental Estimators?'forthcoming in Journal of Econometrics
J Smith… - 2003
D Bravo, S Mukhopadhyay… - Quantitative economics, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Page 1. Quantitative Economics 1 (2010), 47–95 1759-7331/20100047 Effects of school
reform on education and labor market performance: Evidence from Chile's universal
voucher system David Bravo Microdata Center, University of Chile ...
[CITATION] Oportunidades impacts on education in urban areas
PE Todd, J Gallardo-Garcia, JR Behrman… - Technical Document, 2005
[CITATION] Long-Term Impacts of the Oportunidades Conditional Cash Transfer Program on Rural Youth
JR Behrman, SW Parker… - Ibero-Amerika Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, 2005
[CITATION] Effects of a universal school voucher system on educational and labor market outcomes: evidence from Chile
D Bravo, S Mukhopadhyay… - Work. Pap., University of Pennsylvania, 2009
J Behrman… - … Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC, 1999 - ifpri.org
1. International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). A preliminary evaluation of
the sample sizes used for the evaluation of the Education, Health, and Nutrition
Program (PROGRESA) of Mexico. The aim of PROGRESA is to ...
[CITATION] With assistance from Andres Otero, Jeremy Skog, Javiera Vasquez, and Viviana Velez-Grajales. 2008.“The Chilean Pension Reform Turns 25: Lessons …
A Arenas de Mesa, D Bravo, JR Behrman… - … in the Americas, eds. Oxford: OUP
[CITATION] Evaluating preschool programs when length of exposure to the program varies: A nonparametric approach
P Todd, JR Behrman… - Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, mimeo, 2000
[CITATION] qFifty Years of Mincerian Earnings Regressions
J Heckman, L Lochner… - 2003 - rNBER Working Paper Series
[CITATION] A note on adapting propensity score matching and selection models to choice based samples
J Heckman… - 2004 - Working Paper, first draft 1995, this …
[CITATION] Using Human Capital Enrichment to Reduce Poverty and Inequality: the Case of Oportunidades in Mexico
D McKee… - Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania, 2007
[CITATION] Choice-Theoretic Generalizations of the Ordered Discrete Choice Model
JJ Heckman, L Lochner… - Manuscript. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1996
[CITATION] The impacts of obligatory secondary school education in Mexico
JR Behrman, SW Parker… - CIDE, Mexico City (draft), 2007
OS Mitchell, A ARENAS DE MESA, D Bravo… - 2006 - papers.ssrn.com
Page 1. The Chilean Pension Reform Turns 25: Lessons from the Social Protection
Survey Alberto Arenas de Mesa, David Bravo, Jere R. Behrman, Olivia S. Mitchell,
and Petra E. Todd With assistance from Andres Otero, Jeremy ...
[CITATION] Does Matching Overcome LaLonde's Critique of Nonexperimental Evaluation Methods?
JA Smith… - manuscrito, University Western Ontario, Londres, 2000
[CITATION] An Evaluation of the Sample Sizes for Evaluation of PROGRESA (Education, Health, and Nutrition Program) of Mexico
JR Behrman… - Research report prepared for IFPRI (mimeo). …, 1999
[CITATION] Matching Estimators. The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, ed. Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume
PE Todd - 2008 - New York: Palgrave Macmillan
[CITATION] Randomness in the experimental samples of Oportunidades
JR Behrman… - International Food Policy Research Institute Report, …, 1999
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