Objectives Regression discontinuity (RD) designs allow for rigorous causal inference when
patients receive a treatment based on scoring above or below a cutoff point on a …

We review research published in the past 15 years that explores the relationship between
military service and the life course, focusing on criminal careers, marital status, lifelong …

Most nations have experienced an internal armed conflict since 1960. Yet while civil war is
central to many nations' development, it has stood at the periphery of economics research …

In regression discontinuity (RD) designs for evaluating causal effects of interventions,
assignment to a treatment is determined at least partly by the value of an observed covariate …

Instrumental variables was first used in the 1920s to estimate supply and demand elasticities
and later to correct for measurement error in single equation models. Recently, instrumental …

Using research designs patterned after randomized experiments, many recent economic
studies examine outcome measures for treatment groups and comparison groups that are …

This chapter provides an overview of the methodological and practical issues that arise
when estimating causal relationships that are of interest to labor economists. The subject …

This paper offers a theory of training whereby workers do not pay for the general training
they receive. The superior information of the current employer regarding its employees' …

Conflict between and within countries can have lasting health and economic consequences,
but identifying such effects can be empirically challenging. This paper uses household …

An important problem faced by colleges and universities, that of evaluating the effect of their
financial aid offers on student enrollment decisions, is complicated by the likely endogeneity …