What Are We Weighting For?

By Gary Solon, Steven J. Haider, Jeffrey M. Wooldridge. The Journal of human resources, 2015

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Evaluating the prevalence of the undeclared economy in Central and Eastern Europe: An institutional asymmetry perspective (2015, methodology): “Thus, for univariate analysis, we employ the sample weighting scheme as recommended in both the wider literature (Sharon and Liu, 1994; Solon et al., 2013; Winship and Radbill, 1994) and the Eurobarometer methodology, to obtain meaningful descriptive results.”
Interpreting OLS Estimands When Treatment Effects Are Heterogeneous: Smaller Groups Get Larger Weights (2018, positive): “As noted by Deaton (1997) and Solon et al. (2015), the OLS weights are consistent with this idea.”
Economic Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture: The Importance of Additional Climatic Variables Other than Temperature and Precipitation (2017, background): “All regressions are weighted by crop-specific planted area to correct for heteroskedasticity associated with each county (Solon et al., 2013).28 It is likely that the error terms are spatially correlated across counties.”
Ride-Sharing, Fatal Crashes, and Crime (2017, neutral): “Solon et al. (2015) suggest that researchers present both weighted and unweighted estimates as differences between these specifications can indicate specification errors.”
Time Use and Labor Productivity: The Returns to Sleep (2018, methodology): “Following the suggestions of Winship and Radbill (1994) and Solon, Haider, and Wooldridge (2015), we do not weight observations, but we do control for weekends since they are oversampled in our data set.”
Are Student Absences Worth the Worry in U.S. Primary Schools? (2017, methodology): “In column 2 we show that the baseline estimates are robust to not weighting the regressions, as suggested by Solon, Haider, and Wooldridge (2015).”
When Should We Use Unit Fixed Effects Regression Models for Causal Inference with Longitudinal Data? (2019, background): “The following theorem establishes this result and shows how to compute regression weights for a given matched set (see Gibbons, Suárez Serrato, and Urbancic 2017; Solon, Haider, and Wooldridge 2015 for related results).”
Unemployment Effects of Stay-at-Home Orders: Evidence from High-Frequency Claims Data (2020, background): “Our paper also relates to empirical work studying the effect of lockdown policies more specifically. For example, Hartl, Wälde, and Weber (2020) study the effect of lockdowns in Germany on the spread of the COVID-19.”
Forced Migration and Human Capital: Evidence from Post-WWII Population Transfers (2018, background): “2Stigler and Becker (1977) attribute the idea to Reuben Kessel (undated; see their footnote 1).”