Abstract
We investigate whether receiving health information changes human behavior by using a novel approach to inference in the fuzzy regression discontinuity design. The approach is robust to the strength of identification and allows for mean squared error optimal bandwidths as well as undersmoothing. It is based on the Anderson-Rubin test in the instrumental variable literature augmented with either robust bias correction or critical value adjustment. We find that the resulting confidence sets of the treatment effect are mostly wide or even unbounded. These findings indicate that we could not rule out most magnitudes of behavior change, including zero and non-zero ones.
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- Identifying Common and Idiosyncratic Explosive Behaviors in the Large Dimensional Factor Model with an Application to U.S. State-Level House Prices
- Estimation in the Presence of Heteroskedasticity of Unknown Form: A Lasso-based Approach
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- Does Health Behavior Change After Diagnosis? Evidence From Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity
- Teaching Corner
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- Practitioner’s Corner
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Research Articles
- Identifying Common and Idiosyncratic Explosive Behaviors in the Large Dimensional Factor Model with an Application to U.S. State-Level House Prices
- Estimation in the Presence of Heteroskedasticity of Unknown Form: A Lasso-based Approach
- Nonparametric Instrumental Regression with Two-Way Fixed Effects
- Matching on Noise: Finite Sample Bias in the Synthetic Control Estimator
- Does Health Behavior Change After Diagnosis? Evidence From Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity
- Teaching Corner
- Introduction to Latent Variable Estimation for Undergraduate Econometrics: An Application with Disney Theme Park Ride Wait Times
- Practitioner’s Corner
- Neglected Heterogeneity, Simpson’s Paradox, and the Anatomy of Least Squares
- Review
- Estimation of Causal Effects with a Binary Treatment Variable: A Unified M-Estimation Framework