Early childhood development, human capital, and poverty

O Attanasio, S Cattan, C Meghir - Annual Review of Economics, 2022‏ - annualreviews.org
Children's experiences during early childhood are critical for their cognitive and
socioemotional development, two key dimensions of human capital. However, children from …

High-dimensional data bootstrap

V Chernozhukov, D Chetverikov… - Annual Review of …, 2023‏ - annualreviews.org
This article reviews recent progress in high-dimensional bootstrap. We first review high-
dimensional central limit theorems for distributions of sample mean vectors over the …

The Romano–Wolf multiple-hypothesis correction in Stata

D Clarke, JP Romano, M Wolf - The Stata Journal, 2020‏ - journals.sagepub.com
When considering multiple-hypothesis tests simultaneously, standard statistical techniques
will lead to overrejection of null hypotheses unless the multiplicity of the testing framework is …

Can artificial intelligence improve gender equality? Evidence from a natural experiment

L Bao, D Huang, C Lin - Management Science, 2024‏ - pubsonline.informs.org
Gender discrimination in education hinders women's representation in various fields. How
can we create a gender-neutral learning environment when teachers' gender composition …

The effect of macroeconomic uncertainty on firm decisions

S Kumar, Y Gorodnichenko, O Coibion - Econometrica, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Using a new survey of firms in New Zealand, we document how exogenous variation in the
macroeconomic uncertainty perceived by firms affects their economic decisions. We use …

Cutthroat capitalism versus cuddly socialism: Are Americans more meritocratic and efficiency-seeking than Scandinavians?

I Almås, AW Cappelen… - Journal of Political …, 2020‏ - journals.uchicago.edu
There are striking differences in inequality and redistribution between the United States and
Scandinavia. To study whether there are corresponding differences in social preferences …

The formation of prosociality: causal evidence on the role of social environment

F Kosse, T Deckers, P **er… - Journal of Political …, 2020‏ - journals.uchicago.edu
This study presents evidence on the role of social environment for the formation of
prosociality. We show that socioeconomic status (SES) as well as intensity of mother-child …

Tackling youth unemployment: Evidence from a labor market experiment in Uganda

L Alfonsi, O Bandiera, V Bassi, R Burgess… - …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
We design a labor market experiment to compare demand‐and supply‐side policies to
tackle youth unemployment, a key issue in low‐income countries. The experiment tracks …

The life-cycle benefits of an influential early childhood program

JL García, JJ Heckman, DE Leaf, MJ Prados - 2017‏ - nber.org
This paper estimates the long-term benefits from an influential early childhood program
targeting disadvantaged families. The program was evaluated by random assignment and …

DoubleML-an object-oriented implementation of double machine learning in python

P Bach, V Chernozhukov, MS Kurz… - Journal of Machine …, 2022‏ - jmlr.org
DoubleML is an open-source Python library implementing the double machine learning
framework of Chernozhukov et al.(2018) for a variety of causal models. It contains …