Research

Published Articles

Estimating the Effects of Length of Exposure to Instruction in a Training Program: The Case of Job Corps, (with A. Flores-Lagunes, A. Gonzalez and T. Neumann), The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 94(1): 153–171.

Comparing Treatments Across Labor Markets: An Assessment of Nonexperimental Multiple-Treatment Strategies, (with O. Mitnik), The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95(5): 1691–1707.

Partial Identification of Local Average Treatment Effects with an Invalid Instrument, (with A. Flores-Lagunes). Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2013, 31(4): 534-545.

Bounds on Average and Quantile Treatment Effects of Job Corps Training on Wages, (with G. Blanco and A. Flores-Lagunes), Journal of Human Resources, 2013, 48(3): 659-701.

The Effects of Job Corps Training on Wages of Adolescents and Young Adults, (with G. Blanco and A. Flores-Lagunes), American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 103(3): 418-422, May 2013.

Lessons from Quantile Panel Estimation of the Environmental Kuznets Curve, (with A. Flores-Lagunes and D. Kapetanakis), Econometric Reviews, 2014, 33(8): 815-853.

A Stata Package for the Application of Semiparametric Estimators of Dose-Response Functions, (with M. Bia, A. Flores-Lagunes and A. Mattei), Stata Journal, 2014, 14(3): 580-604.

The Role of Degree Attainment in the Differential Impact of Job Corps on Adolescents and Young Adults, (with M. Bampasidou, A. Flores-Lagunes, and D. Parisian), Research in Labor Economics, 2014, 40, 113-156.

Bounds on Treatment Effects in the Presence of Sample Selection and Noncompliance: The Wage Effects of Job Corps, (with X. Chen), Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2015, 33(4): 523-540.

The Effect of Degree Attainment on Arrests: Evidence form a Randomized Social Experiment, (with V. Amin, A. Flores-Lagunes, and D. Parisian), Economics of Education Review, 2016, 54: 259-273.

Going beyond LATE: Bounding Average Treatment Effects of Job Corps Training, (with X. Chen and A. Flores-Lagunes), Journal of Human Resources, 2018, 53(4): 1050-1099.

Bounds on Average and Quantile Treatment Effects on Duration Outcomes under Censoring, Selection, and Noncompliance, (with G. Blanco, X. Chen, and A. Flores-Lagunes), Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2020, 38(4): 901-920.

The Impact of BMI on Mental Health: Further Evidence from Genetic Markers, (with V. Amin and A. Flores-Lagunes), Economics and Human Biology, 2020, 38.

Genetic Risks, Adolescent Health and Educational Attainment, (with V. Amin, J. Behrman, J. Fletcher, A. Flores-Lagunes, and H-P. Kohler), Health Economics. Forthcoming.

Books

Average Treatment Effect Bounds with an Instrumental Variable: Theory and Practice, (with X. Chen), 2018, Springer.

Working Papers

The Effects of Vietnam-Era Military Service on the Long-Term Health of Veterans: A Bounds Analysis, (with A. Flores-Lagunes and X. Wang). Submitted. (link coming soon)

Bounds on Average Treatment Effects with an Invalid Instrument, with an Application to the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment, (with X. Chen and A. Flores-Lagunes). Draft available upon request.

Bounds on Causal Direct and Indirect Average Treatment Effects in the Presence of Noncompliance, (with X. Chen). Draft available upon request.

Mental Health, Schooling Attainment and Polygenic Scores: Are There Significant Gene-Environment Associations? (with V. Amin, J. Behrman, J. Fletcher, A. Flores-Lagunes, and H-P. Kohler). Submitted. (link coming soon)

What Can We Learn About the Effect of Mental Health on Labor Market Outcomes Under Weak Assumptions? Evidence from the NLSY79, (with G. Germinario, V. Amin, and A. Flores-Lagunes). Submitted. (link coming soon)

Nonparametric Partial Identification of Causal Net and Mechanism Average Treatment Effects, (with A. Flores-Lagunes). Revision requested. (link coming soon)

Estimation of Dose-Response Functions and Optimal Doses with a Continuous Treatment. Revision requested. (link coming soon)

Identification and Estimation of Causal Mechanisms and Net Effects of a Treatment under Unconfoundedness, (with A. Flores-Lagunes). Revision requested. (An earlier version of this paper circulated as IZA Discussion Paper No. 4237). (link coming soon)

Research in Progress (Selected sample)

A Stata Package for Estimation of Average Effects of Multiple and Multivalued Treatments, (with J. Mejalenko and O. Mitnik).

The Use of Polygenic Scores as Monotone Instrumental Variables, (with G. Germinario, V. Amin, and A. Flores-Lagunes).

Social Media's Effect on High Schooler Mental Health: Could Body Image be an Important Mechanism? (with J. Doremus and J. Keefer)

Unbundling the Degree Effect in a Job Training Program for Disadvantaged Youth, (with M. Bampasidou and A. Flores-Lagunes).

Finite Sample Properties of Estimators of Dose-Response Functions based on the Generalized Propensity Score, (with M. Bia, A. Flores-Lagunes and A. Mattei).

The Effect of Arrests on Short-Run Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence form a Randomized Social Experiment, (with V. Amin, A. Flores-Lagunes, and D. Parisian).

Evaluating the Infant Health Effects of Maternal Smoking during Pregnancy using Matching and Propensity Score Analyses, (with K. Chay and P. Torelli).

Ph.D. Thesis

My Ph.D. thesis has been cited in some publications because some of its contents do not appear in the papers above, so I decided to put it here.

· Title: “Econometric Evaluation of Continuous Treatments” (2005) (link coming soon).

Note on Software

For most of the published papers above, programs in relatively clean shape that could be shared are available (usually in Stata). Feel free to e-mail me to inquire about them.