This chapter reviews the microeconometrics literature on partial identification, focusing on
the developments of the last thirty years. The topics presented illustrate that the available …

Social and economic networks are ubiquitous, serving as contexts for job search, technology
diffusion, the accumulation of human capital, and even the formulation of norms and values …

We are part of Nature, not separate from it. We rely on Nature to provide us with food, water
and shelter; regulate our climate and disease; maintain nutrient cycles and oxygen …

We survey the literature on the economic consequences of the structure of social networks.
We develop a taxonomy of “macro” and “micro” characteristics of social-interaction networks …

We study the direct and spillover effects of local state capacity in Colombia. We model the
determination of state capacity as a network game between municipalities and the national …

Problems involving causal inference have dogged at the heels of statistics since its earliest
days. Correlation does not imply causation, and yet causal conclusions drawn from a …

The authors consider processes on social networks that can potentially involve three factors:
homophily, or the formation of social ties due to matching individual traits; social contagion …

This paper introduces time‐varying grouped patterns of heterogeneity in linear panel data
models. A distinctive feature of our approach is that group membership is left unrestricted …

There is a large and growing literature on peer effects in economics. In the current article, we
focus on a Manski-type linear-in-means model that has proved to be popular in empirical …

Since 1972, the rate of incarceration in US state and federal prisons has increased every
year without exception from a rate of 96 prisoners per 100,000 population in 1972 to 504 …