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Industrial wages in mid-1880s Sweden: estimations beyond Bagge’s Wages in Sweden. Data, source and methods
(2019-09)
Most researchers interested in Swedish wages during early industrialization
have used the seminal work Wages in Sweden from the 1930s as their point of
departure. Whereas the material in Wages in Sweden solidly tracks ...
Too LATE for Natural Experiments: A Critique of Local Average Treatment Effects Using the Example of Angrist and Evans (1998)
(2019-11)
There has been a fundamental flaw in the conceptual design of many natural experiments used in the economics literature, particularly among studies aiming to estimate a local average treatment effect (LATE). When we use ...