Journal ArticleEconomic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) · July 27, 2016
High-frequency data is useful to measure volatility, reduce recall bias, and measure dynamic treatment effects. We conduct the first experimental evaluation of high-frequency phone surveys in a developing country or with microenterprises. We randomly assig ...
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Journal ArticleEconomic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) · June 7, 2016
In 2007, Michigan began requiring all high school students to take the ACT college entrance exam. This natural experiment allows us to evaluate the performance of several parametric and semiparametric sample selection correction models. We apply each model ...
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Journal ArticleEconomic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) · March 3, 2016
I study the relative academic performance of students tracked or randomly assigned to South African university dormitories. Tracking reduces low-scoring students' GPAs but has little effect on high-scoring students. This lowers mean GPA and raises GPA disp ...
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