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The Origins and Control of Forest Fires in the Tropics

In this first EEE Working Paper, Clare Balboni, Robin Burgess and Benjamin Olken examine how externalities affect the decision to use fire for land clearing, using 15 years of daily satellite data on fire hotspots across Indonesia. Read more...

Pillars of Prosperity

Using the tools of modern political economics and combining economic theory with a bird's-eye view of the data (now updated for 2021), Timothy Besley and Torsten Persson reinterpret Adam Smith's pillars of prosperity to explain the existence of development clusters--places that tend to combine effective state institutions, the absence of political violence, and high per-capita incomes. Read more...

Pillars of Prosperity: A Ten-Year Update

Overview of a ten-year update of the empirical claims in Besley and Persson's 2011 book 'Pillars of Prosperity: The Political Economics of Development Clusters'. In addition to a new dataset that covers many of the themes in the book, we recreate almost all charts and tables with better data for a cross-section ten years later. Read more...

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Econometrics Paper

Bandwidth selection for nonparametric regression with errors-in-variables

Hao Dong, Taisuke Otsu and Luke Taylor

We propose two novel bandwidth selection procedures for the nonparametric regression model with classical measurement error in the regressors. Each method is based on evaluating the prediction errors of the regression us...Read more...

25 January 2022

SPDO Research Note

distoutc and svydistoutc: Help file to accompany Stata programmes for undertaking distributional analysis of categorical outcome variables

Eleni Karagiannaki

Downloadable STATA programmes and accompanying help files for estimating a range of distributional statistics for any categorical variable (e.g. employment status, poverty status etc) overall and for each of the groups i...Read more...

25 January 2022

SPDO Research Note

distout and svydistout: Help file to accompany Stata programmes for undertaking distributional analysis of continuous outcome variables

Eleni Karagiannaki

Downloadable STATA programmes and accompanying help files for estimating a range of distributional statistics for any continuous variable (e.g. earnings, equivalised household disposable income) overall and for each of t...Read more...

25 January 2022

CASEbrief

Poverty and parenting in the UK: Patterns and pathways between economic hardship and mothers' parenting practices

Kerris Cooper

This research examines to what extent there are differences in parenting across income groups, and whether these differences are unique to low-income parents. When comparisons are made across all income groups, rather th...Read more...

11 January 2022

Econometrics Paper

Estimating density ratio of marginals to joint: Applications to causal inference

Yukitoshi Matsushita, Taisuke Otsu and Keisuke Takahata

In various fields of data science, researchers often face problems of estimating the ratios of two probability densities. Particularly in the context of causal inference, the product of marginals for a treatment variable...Read more...

7 January 2022

CASEreport

Oasis Community Housing: Review of change through COVID and beyond

Anne Power and Bert Provan

Small, locally based housing associations provide invaluable local services to homeless and rough sleeping people. Oasis Community Housing undertakes this work in Gateshead, Sunderland and South Tyneside, providing day c...Read more...

3 December 2021

CASEpaper

No such thing as a free lunch? Exploring the consistency, validity, and uses of the ‘Free School Meals’ (FSM) measure in the National Pupil Database

Tammy Campbell and Polina Obolenskaya

This paper examines the existing literature on what the Free School Meals (‘FSM’) measure in the National Pupil Database (NPD) can proxy, and on ways in which the measure is used and understood. Through new empirical ana...Read more...

12 November 2021

CASEbrief

Children and Families Seeking Asylum in the UK

Ilona Pinter

This CASEBrief provides a summary of new administrative data on children and families seeking asylum in the UK and those receiving support from the Home Office under the Asylum Support system. Much of the recent debate o...Read more...

28 October 2021

Econometrics Paper

Equilibrium multiplicity in dynamic games: testing and estimation

Taisuke Otsu and Martin Pesendorfer

This paper surveys the recent literature on dynamic games estimation when there is a concern of equilibrium multiplicity. We focus on the questions of testing for equilibrium multiplicity and estimation in the presence o...Read more...

26 October 2021

Econometrics Paper

Multiway empirical likelihood

Harold D Chiang, Yukitoshi Matsushita and Taisuke Otsu

his paper develops a general methodology to conduct statistical inference for observations indexed by multiple sets of entities. We propose a novel multiway empirical likeli- hood statistic that converges to a chi-square...Read more...

19 October 2021