Guido Imbens

Causal Inference for Statistics, Social, and Biomedical Sciences

An Introduction

Most questions in social and biomedical sciences are causal in nature: what would happen to individuals, or to groups, if part of their environment we...

Identification and Inference in Nonlinear Difference-in-differences Models

This paper develops an alternative approach to the widely used Difference-In-Difference (DID) method for evaluating the effects of policy changes. In ...

Bias from Classical and Other Forms of Measurement Error

We consider the implications of a specific alternative to the classical measurement error model, in which the data are optimal predictions based on so...

Case-control Studies with Contaminated Controls

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Information Theoretic Approaches to Inference in Moment Condition Models

One-step efficient GMM estimation has been developed in the recent papers of Back and Brown (1990), Imbens (1993) and Qin and Lawless (1994). These pa...

Discussion Papers

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Investigating Homelessness

A Renewal Theory Approach

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Estimating the Effect of Unearned Income on Labor Supply, Earnings, Savings, and Consumption

Evidence from a Survey of Lottery Players

Knowledge of the effect of unearned income on economic behavior of individuals in general, and on labor supply in particular, is of great importance t...

Efficient Estimation and Stratified Sampling

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