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• Achieving Social Equity: From Problems to Solutions AI翻译
  作者：Schroedel, Jean Reith
  作者单位：Claremont Colleges; Claremont Graduate University
• Inside a Public Policy Black Box: Congress, FERC, and Private Electric Utilities AI翻译
  作者：Cain, Nicholas L.
• To Work for Yourself, for Others, or Not at All? How Disability Benefits Affect the Employment Decisions of Older Veterans AI翻译
  作者：Coile, Courtney; Duggan, Mark; Guo, Audrey
  作者单位：Wellesley College; Stanford University; Santa Clara University
  摘要：The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' Disability Compensation (DC) program provides disability benefits to nearly one in four U.S. military veterans and has annual expenditures of $77 billion. We examine how the receipt of DC benefits affects the employment decisions of Vietnam-era veterans, making use of variation in eligibility resulting from a 2001 policy change that increased access to the program for veterans who served with boots on the ground in the Vietnam theater but not for other ...
• LURKING INFERENTIAL MONSTERS? QUANTIFYING SELECTION BIAS IN EVALUATIONS OF SCHOOL PROGRAMS AI翻译
  作者：Weidmann, Ben; Miratrix, Luke
  作者单位：Harvard University
  摘要：This study examines whether unobserved factors substantially bias education evaluations that rely on the Conditional Independence Assumption. We add 14 new within-study comparisons to the literature, all from primary schools in England. Across these 14 studies, we generate 42 estimates of selection bias using a simple approach to observational analysis. A meta-analysis of these estimates suggests that the distribution of underlying bias is centered around zero. The mean absolute value of estim...