Mediation analysis aims at identifying and evaluating the mechanisms through which
treatment affects an outcome. The goal is to disentangle the total treatment effect into two …

We investigate economic causes of the rising support of populist parties in industrialised
countries. Looking at Germany, we find that exposure to imports from low-wage countries …

In this article, we describe the use of ivmediate, a new command to estimate causal
mediation effects in instrumental-variables settings using the framework developed by …

This paper examines the econometric causal model and the interpretation of empirical
evidence based on thought experiments that was developed by Ragnar Frisch and Trygve …

This paper examines the econometric causal model for policy analysis developed by the
seminal ideas of Ragnar Frisch and Trygve Haavelmo. We compare the econometric causal …

While a large body of literature investigates the bidirectional relationship between retirement
and health, few have analyzed the mechanism through which retirement affects health which …

To what extent is voter turnout influenced by ethnic inequality? We combine ethnolinguistic
maps on sub-national locations of ethnic groups with night-time light satellite images to …

The air pollution problem, represented by the frequent occurrence of haze, has seriously
affected the quality of China's economic growth. Along with the in-depth implementation of …

This paper examines the individual and aggregate costs of ethnic discrimination. Studying
Germans in the United States during World War I, an event that abruptly downgraded their …

What, if any, effect do physical barriers have on cross-border population movements? The
foundational claim that barriers reduce migration flows remains unsupported. We …