Control Function Methods in Applied Econometrics

By Jeffrey M. Wooldridge. The Journal of human resources, 2015

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management Science and Operations Research, Statistics and Probability

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Are Referees and Editors in Economics Gender Neutral?* (2019, background): “(7) As shown by Wooldridge (2015), the inclusion of r̂ absorbs the endogenous component of the R&R decision, yielding consistent estimates of λRR and the other coefficients of interest.”
Long-term Causal Inference Under Persistent Confounding via Data Combination (2022, background): “Control functions are special variables constructed from existing variables that can help correct for confounding bias by conditioning on them [Wooldridge, 2015].”
Do Parents Value School Effectiveness? (2020, background): “The λk(·)’s serve as “control functions” correcting for selection on unobservables (Heckman and Robb, 1985; Blundell and Matzkin, 2014; Wooldridge, 2015).”
Commercialization of the small farm sector and multidimensional poverty (2019, positive): “CF approach is more efficient than two-stage least squares (Verkaart et al., 2017; Wooldridge, 2015).”
App Popularity: Where in the World are Consumers Most Sensitive to Price and User Ratings? (2018, methodology): “WLS regression model WLS estimation Wooldridge (2015) Do the price, ratings volume, and ratings valence slopes obtained from DPD model vary depending on countries’ cultural, economic, and infrastructural traits?”
Firm-level human capital and innovation: Evidence from China (2020, positive): “In the second stage, we regress the dependent variable (patent applications) on all the variables in the original model and the two residuals using NB. Wooldridge (2015) pointed out that control function is likely more efficient than a direct IV approach.”
Econometric Methods for Program Evaluation (2018, methodology): “An alternative approach to LIV estimation of MTE is given by a control function representation of the estimand (see Wooldridge, 2015, for a review of control function methods in econometrics).”
Community Colleges and Upward Mobility (2019, positive): “Kline and Walters, 2016), or observing individuals’ preference rankings over treatment alternatives (Kirkeboen et al., 2016).8 My employment of multiple continuous instruments most closely resembles Heckman et al. (2008) (with related expositions in Heckman and Vytlacil, 2007a,b) and Lee and Salanié”
Agricultural Cooperatives and Investment in Organic Soil Amendments and Chemical Fertilizer in China (2018, methodology): “The potential endogeneity of cooperative membership variable is addressed using the two-stage control function approach (Wooldridge 2015).”