2 papers
econ.EM2019
From Local to Global: External Validity in a Fertility Natural Experiment
Rajeev Dehejia, Cristian Pop-Eleches, Cyrus Samii
We study issues related to external validity for treatment effects using over 100 replications of the Angrist and Evans (1998) natural experiment on the effects of sibling sex comp…
stat.ME2018
Evaluating Ex Ante Counterfactual Predictions Using Ex Post Causal Inference
Michael Gechter, Cyrus Samii, Rajeev Dehejia +1
We derive a formal, decision-based method for comparing the performance of counterfactual treatment regime predictions using the results of experiments that give relevant informati…