3 papers
econ.EM2026
IV regression with distribution-valued outcomes
David Van Dijcke, Kaspar Wüthrich
We develop IV Fréchet regression (IVFR), an instrumental-variable (IV) method for settings where the outcome is an entire distribution. Framing the problem as an IV regression in 2…
econ.EM2025
disco: Distributional Synthetic Controls
Florian Gunsilius, David Van Dijcke
The method of synthetic controls is widely used for evaluating causal effects of policy changes in settings with observational data. Often, researchers aim to estimate the causal i…
econ.EM2023
Free Discontinuity Regression: With an Application to the Economic Effects of Internet Shutdowns
Florian Gunsilius, David Van Dijcke
Sharp, multidimensional changepoints-abrupt shifts in a regression surface whose locations and magnitudes are unknown-arise in settings as varied as gene-expression profiling, fina…