Myoung-jae Lee reviews the three most popular methods (and their extensions) in applied
economics and other social sciences: matching, regression discontinuity, and difference in …

Propensity score matching is frequently used for estimating average treatment effects. Its
applicability, however, is not confined to treatment evaluation. In this paper, it is shown that …

Formal digital credit raises hopes to decrease the gender gap in financial inclusion.
However, up until now, it remains unknown whether these hopes are justified. Using …

The decomposition of gender or ethnic wage gaps into explained and unexplained
components (often with the aim to assess labor market discrimination) has been a major …

Using an own survey on wage expectations among students at two Swiss institutions of
higher education, we examine the wage expectations of our respondents along two main …

This paper is the first to test a national panel data set of Hispanic enrollments in gifted
education. Using data from 2002-2010, it is found that lower education budgets have a …

It is well understood that classical sample selection models are not semiparametrically
identified without exclusion restrictions. Lee (2009) developed bounds for the parameters in …

We propose a simple way to embed family‐economics arguments for pay differences
between genders into standard decomposition techniques. To account appropriately for the …

Using a recent result from the program evaluation literature, the author demonstrates that the
interpretation of regression estimates of between-group differences in wages and other …

This paper estimates the gender wage gap and its composition in China's urban labor
market. The traditional Blinder–Oaxaca (1973) decomposition method with different …