Fixed effects (FE) have emerged as a ubiquitous and powerful tool for eliminating unwanted
variation in observational accounting studies. Unwanted variation is plentiful in accounting …

The past two decades have seen a rapid increase in Private Equity (PE) investment in
healthcare, a sector in which intensive government subsidy and market frictions could lead …

We examine heterogeneous treatment effects of a universal child care program in Germany
by exploiting variation in attendance caused by a reform that led to a large expansion …

We study how early child care (ECC) affects children's development in a marginal treatment
effect framework that allows for rich forms of observed and unobserved effect heterogeneity …

Abstract Communities across the United States are reconsidering the public safety benefits
of prosecuting nonviolent misdemeanor offenses, yet there is little empirical evidence to …

We evaluate a multifaceted policy intervention attempting to jump-start adolescent women's
empowerment in Uganda by simultaneously providing them vocational training and …

Instrumental variables (IV) analysis is a powerful, but fragile, tool for drawing causal
inferences from observational data. Sociologists increasingly turn to this strategy in settings …

Endogeneity is a crucial problem in survey-based empirical research on marketing strategy
(MS) and inter-organizational relationships (IORs); if not addressed, it can cause …

¿ Cómo se puede resolver este rompecabezas de mayores demandas y fortalecimiento
fiscal? Esta edición de Desarrollo en las Américas (DIA) se centra precisamente en esta …

This article develops a new test for identifying racial bias in the context of bail decisions—a
high-stakes setting with large disparities between white and black defendants. We motivate …