Econometrics and Quantitative Methods

• Coverage Error Optimal Confidence Intervals for Local Polynomial Regression, with Matias Cattaneo and Max Farrell.

Bernoulli, 2022. [pdf | appendix | arXiv | bibtex]

• Multivalued Treatments and Decomposition Analysis: An application to the WIA Program, with Wallice Ao and Ying-Ying Lee.

Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2021.  [pdf | bibtex]

• Optimal Bandwidth Choice for Robust Bias Corrected Inference in Regression-Discontinuity Designs, with Matias Cattaneo and Max Farrell.

Econometrics Journal, 2020. [pdf | appendix | arXiv | software | bibtex]

• Regression Discontinuity Designs using Covariates, with Matias Cattaneo, Max Farrell and Rocio Titiunik.

Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019.  [pdf | appendix | arXiv | software | bibtex]

• On the Effect of Bias Estimation on Coverage Accuracy in Nonparametric Inference, with Matias Cattaneo and Max Farrell.

Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2018. [pdf | appendix | arXiv | software | bibtex]

•  Optimal Data-Driven Regression-Discontinuity Plots, with Matias Cattaneo and Rocio Titiunik.

Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2015.  [pdf | appendix | software | bibtex]

• Robust Nonparametric Confidence Intervals for Regression-Discontinuity Designs, with Matias Cattaneo and Rocio Titiunik.

Econometrica, 2014.  [pdf | appendix | software | bibtex]

Causal Inference in Health and Social Policies

• Regression discontinuity design studies: a guide for health researchers, with Jawadekar N, Kezios K, Zeki Al Hazzouri A.

BMJ, 2024. [pdf]

• History of Low Hourly Wage and All-Cause Mortality Among Middle-aged Workers, with Kezios K, Lu P,  Zeki Al Hazzouri A.

JAMA, 2023. [pdf | media coverage]

• Regression Discontinuity to Evaluate the Effect of Statins on Myocardial Infarction using Electronic Health Records, with Odden M, Zhang A, Jawadekar N, Tan A,  Zeki Al Hazzouri A.

European Journal of Epidemiology, 2023. [pdf | medrxiv]

• Propensity Scores in Health Disparities Research: The Example of Cognitive Aging and the Hispanic Paradox, with Kezios K, Zimmerman S, Zhang A, Jawadekar N, Glymour M, Zeki Al Hazzouri A. 

Epidemiology, 2023. [pdf]

• Practical Guide to Honest Causal Forests for Identifying Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in a Randomized Setting, with Jawadekar N, Kezios K, Odden M, Stingone J, Rudolph K, Zeki Al Hazzouri A. 

American Journal of Epidemiology, 2023. [pdf] 

• The Women of the National Supported Work Demonstration, with Jeffrey Smith. 

Journal of Labor Economics,  2017. [pdf | bibtex]