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The finite sample performance of instrumental variable-based estimators of the Local Average Treatment Effect when controlling for covariates
Hugo Bodory, Martin Huber, Michael Lechner
This paper investigates the finite sample performance of a range of parametric, semi-parametric, and non-parametric instrumental variable estimators when controlling for a fixed se…
Modified Causal Forest
Michael Lechner, Jana Mareckova
Uncovering the heterogeneity of causal effects of policies and business decisions at various levels of granularity provides substantial value to decision makers. This paper develop…
Active labour market policies for the long-term unemployed: New evidence from causal machine learning
Daniel Goller, Tamara Harrer, Michael Lechner +1
Active labor market programs are important instruments used by European employment agencies to help the unemployed find work. Investigating large administrative data on German long…
The Effect of Sport in Online Dating: Evidence from Causal Machine Learning
Daniel Boller, Michael Lechner, Gabriel Okasa
Online dating emerged as a key platform for human mating. Previous research focused on socio-demographic characteristics to explain human mating in online dating environments, negl…
Sorting on the Used-Car Market After the Volkswagen Emission Scandal
Anthony Strittmatter, Michael Lechner
The disclosure of the VW emission manipulation scandal caused a quasi-experimental market shock to the observable environmental quality of VW diesel vehicles. To investigate the ma…
Nonparametric estimation of causal heterogeneity under high-dimensional confounding
Michael Zimmert, Michael Lechner
This paper considers the practically important case of nonparametrically estimating heterogeneous average treatment effects that vary with a limited number of discrete and continuo…