Natural "Natural Experiments" in Economics

By Mark R. Rosenzweig, Ken Wolpin. 2000

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Soil Science

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Child Care Choices and Children’s Cognitive Achievement: The Case of Single Mothers (2011, background): “7 For example, Baydar and Brooks-Gunn (1991) find maternal employment in the child’s first year negatively affects cognitive outcomes, while Vandell and Ramanan (1992) report positive effects of early employment on math scores, and positive effects of current employment on reading scores.”
Does Fertility Respond to Financial Incentives? (2008, neutral): “As emphasized in a similar context by Rosenzweig and Wolpin (2000), it appears from (5) that this strategy can only be valid if the variables omitted from Milligan’s specification are orthogonal to the double indicator variable, that is if their mean is the same in Québec in t = 1 than in the…”
Policies addressing the tempo effect in low-fertility countries (2005, neutral): “experiments, see Rosenzweig and Wolpin (2000).”
Quasi-structural estimation of a model of childcare choices and child cognitive ability production (2010, background): “Consider first studies that use extensive controls, such as Baydar and Brooks-Gunn (1991), Vandell and Ramanan (1992), Parcel and Menaghan (1994), Han et al (2001) and Ruhm (2002). They control for many observed characteristics of the mother and child, including the mother’s AFQT score - a measure o”
Evaluating organizational-level work stress interventions: Beyond traditional methods (2007, background): “Indeed, many disciplines have used natural experiments in research to advance understanding; in economics (see, for example, Meyer, 1995; Rosenzweig & Wolpin, 2000), public health (Pettigrew et al., 2005; Wilkinson, 1990), nutrition (Susser, 1981), and various areas of applied psychology (social…”
Building Bridges Between Structural and Program Evaluation Approaches to Evaluating Policy (2010, neutral): “Structural econometricians have developed nonparametric identification analyses for the Roy and generalized Roy models. See Heckman and Bo E. Honoré (1990), Heckman (1990), Hyungtaik Ahn and James L. Powell (1993), Donald W.”
Population Policies, Fertility, Women's Human Capital, and Child Quality (2007, neutral): “22 See chapter in this volume by Duflo, Glennerster and Kremer.”
Consumption Smoothing? Livestock, Insurance and Drought in Rural Burkina Faso (2006, background): “Research on joint labor supply and savings choices in risky environments with liquidity constraints or a precautionary motive is much less well-established (see Blundell, Magnac, and Meghir, 1997; Low, 1999; Rust, Buchinsky, and Benitez-Silva, 2003, for a sampling of this literature).”
Projection of Populations by Level of Educational Attainment, Age and Sex for 120 Countries for 2005-2050 (2010, background): “Analyses that overcome the above problem frequently rely on instrumental variable techniques, fixed-effect models, or 'natural experiments' (Rosenzweig and Wolpin 2000).”
The Credibility Revolution in Empirical Economics: How Better Research Design is Taking the Con Out of Econometrics (2010, neutral): “The criticism here—made by a number of authors including Heckman (1997); Rosenzweig and Wolpin (2000); Heckman and Urzua (2009); and Deaton (2009)—is that in the quest for internal validity, design-based studies have become narrow or idiosyncratic.”