5 papers
Causal Effects in Matching Mechanisms with Strategically Reported Preferences
Marinho Bertanha, Margaux Luflade, Ismael Mourifié
A growing number of authorities use mechanisms to allocate students to schools in a way that reflects student preferences and school priorities. However, most real-world mechanisms…
Robust Counterfactuals in Centralized Schools Choice Systems: Addressing Gender Inequality in STEM Education
Lixiong Li, Ismaël Mourifié
Counterfactual analysis is central to education market design and provides a foundation for credible policy recommendations. We develop a novel methodology for counterfactual analy…
A Sharp Test for the Judge Leniency Design
Mohamed Coulibaly, Yu-Chin Hsu, Ismael Mourifié +1
We propose sharp testable implications and tests to jointly assess the random assignment, exclusion, and monotonicity assumptions in judge leniency designs. Our procedures accommod…
Evaluating the Impact of Regulatory Policies on Social Welfare in Difference-in-Difference Settings
Dalia Ghanem, Désiré Kédagni, Ismael Mourifié
Quantifying the impact of regulatory policies on social welfare generally requires the identification of counterfactual distributions. Many of these policies (e.g. minimum wages or…
Horowitz-Manski-Lee Bounds with Multilayered Sample Selection
Kory Kroft, Ismael Mourifié, Atom Vayalinkal
This paper investigates the causal effect of job training on wage rates in the presence of firm heterogeneity. When training affects the sorting of workers to firms, sample selecti…