Browsing by Author "Ferman, Bruno"
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Cherry picking with synthetic controls
2016-06-08The synthetic control (SC) method has been recently proposed as an alternative method to estimate treatment e ects in comparative case studies. Abadie et al. [2010] and Abadie et al. [2015] argue that one of the advantages ... -
Inference in differences-in-differences with few treated groups and heteroskedasticity
2015-10-27Differences-in-Differences (DID) is one of the most widely used identification strategies in applied economics. However, how to draw inferences in DID models when there are few treated groups remains an open question. We ... -
Inference in differences-in-differences with few treated groups and heteroskedasticity
2016We show that the usual inference methods used in Di fferences-in-Di fferences (DID) might not perform well with few treated groups and heteroskedastic errors. One important example is when there is variation in the number ... -
Matching estimators with few treated and many control observations
2018-09We analyze the properties of matching estimators when there are few treated, but many control observations. We show that, under standard assumptions, the nearest neighbor matching estimator for the average treatment effect ... -
Modelagem econômica para a avaliação de impactos do programa de pavimentação e recuperação de vicinais do estado de São Paulo
2013-06Neste relatório final apresentamos análises do impacto da renovação das rodovias vicinais no Estado de São Paulo (Programa Pró Vicinais) em diversas variáveis de interesse, a saber, indicadores municipais de saúde, educação, ... -
Reading the fine print: information disclosure in the Brazilian credit card market
2016Consumer credit regulations usually require that lenders disclose interest rates. However, in the absence of specific prominence requirements, lenders can conceal the interest rate in the fine print while still complying ... -
Revisiting the synthetic control estimator
2016-06-16VERSÃO ATUALIZADA DE ABRIL DE 2018 DISPONÍVEL. -
Understanding mechanisms underlying peer effects: evidence from a field experiment on financial decisions
2014Using a high-stakes field experiment conducted with a financial brokerage, we implement a novel design to separately identify two channels of social influence in financial decisions, both widely studied theoretically. When ...
