12 papers
The Best Are Always the Best: COVID-19 Lockdown Stringency and the Dispersion of Olympic Medal Outcomes
Fernando Delbianco, Federico Fioravanti, Fernando Tohmé
We ask whether COVID-19 lockdown stringency altered national Olympic performance between Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, using the Oxford Stringency Index and the 99 countries that won a…
Regional advantage in rugby sevens: Is there a home effect when nobody is home?
Fernando Delbianco, Federico Fioravanti, Fernando Tohmé +1
We study the existence of a \emph{Regional Differential} in rugby sevens: whether, in tournaments where no competing team enjoys formal home status, some national sides systematica…
Local conformal prediction for individual causal effects
Fernando Delbianco, Fernando Tohmé
Standard CATE estimators become inadequate under strong treatment-effect heterogeneity: confidence intervals for conditional means need not cover individual counterfactual effects.…
Testing the Exclusion Restriction with a Single Instrument: Identification through Fourth-Order Cumulants under Latent Confounding
Fernando Delbianco
With a single instrument the exclusion restriction is untestable from second moments, and adding the instrument to the structural equation fails because the regressor is endogenous…
Visitors Out! The Absence of Away Team Supporters as a Source of Home Advantage in Football
Federico Fioravanti, Fernando Delbianco, Fernando Tohmé
We seek to gain more insight into the effect of the crowds on the Home Advantage by analyzing the particular case of Argentinean football (also known as soccer), where for more tha…
An Assessment Tool for Academic Research Managers in the Third World
Fernando Delbianco, Andres Fioriti, Fernando Tohmé
The academic evaluation of the publication record of researchers is relevant for identifying talented candidates for promotion and funding. A key tool for this is the use of the in…