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Nudging Nutrition: Lessons from the Danish "Fat Tax"
Christian Møller Dahl, Nadja van 't Hoff, Giovanni Mellace +1
In October 2011, Denmark introduced the world's first and, to date, only tax targeting saturated fat. However, this tax was subsequently abolished in January 2013. Leveraging exoge…
On the Role of the Zero Conditional Mean Assumption for Causal Inference in Linear Models
Federico Crudu, Michael C. Knaus, Giovanni Mellace +1
Many econometrics textbooks imply that under mean independence of the regressors and the error term, the OLS parameters have a causal interpretation. We show that even when this as…
Mediation Analysis Synthetic Control
Giovanni Mellace, Alessandra Pasquini
The synthetic control method (SCM) allows estimating the causal effect of an intervention in settings where panel data on a small number of treated and control units are available.…