Lee (2009) Treatment-Effect Bounds for Nonrandom Sample Selection

Tauchmann, Harald

doi:10.1177/1536867x1401400411

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“…Unfortunately, though, a satisfactory exclusion restriction is not possible, so Heckman estimates would be unconvincing. Instead, I include calculations of Lee’s bounds, nonparametric limits of the treatment effect only on those who are not influenced into selection by treatment ( LEE, 2009; TAUCHMANN, 2013). There are no exclusion restriction requirements.…”

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Sex of children and family structure in Brazil: father & grandmother bias?

Reynolds

2019

Rev. bras. estud. popul.

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Brazil has a high rate of mothers living without a partner as well as a high intergenerational co-residence rate, including parents and grandparents. These family types may influence a child’s well-being. Even though there is no evidence of sex-selective abortion in Brazil, sex preference could still be subtly present. This paper tests the composition of family structure (father co-residence, grandmother co-residence, and birth of siblings) in Brazil associated with the sex of the child by using a nationally representative household survey, treating sex of the first and second child as exogenous variables in OLS regressions. I found women with lower birth-order daughters are less likely to live with a partner. I also found suggestive evidence that maternal grandmothers are more likely to live with granddaughters than with grandsons. Women with lower birth-order daughters are more likely to have additional children. Evidence suggests that in Brazil, fathers show a preference for sons over daughters, while grandmothers show a preference for granddaughters over grandsons. Additionally, mothers of girls, without co-residing partners may compensate for the economic loss caused by their lack of partner by living with their own mother. This contributes to the literature on child sex preferences, which has mostly focused on males (fathers); I have analyzed data on grandmothers to include females.

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Sex of children and family structure in Brazil: father & grandmother bias?

Reynolds

2019

Rev. bras. estud. popul.

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“…Specifically, we trimmed our treatment group observations by 11 or 12 percent at the state level (depending on the variable) and by 19 percent at the metropolitan level. We used the user‐created command “leebounds” in STATA to calculate the bounds (Tauchmann, ), consistent with recommendations by Lee (). Even these extreme assumptions about missing data yield consistent statistically significant positive estimates for the impact of pre‐K on math test scores and honors course taking, and statistically significant negative estimates for grade retention (see Table )…”

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The Effects of Tulsa's Pre‐K Program on Middle School Student Performance

Gormley¹,

Phillips²,

Anderson³

2017

J Policy Anal Manage

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“…The second set of columns of Table 3 present the difference in means, the standard errors and p-values, as well as confidence interval for the differences in means, for each game outcome when the treatment or control samples are trimmed to have equal representation. The method implemented is that of Lee (2009) using the Stata package leebounds (Tauchmann, 2013). The Lee bounds method has become a standard way of assessing the robustness of statistical findings to differential attrition.…”

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Reading Fiction and Economic Preferences of Rural Youth in Burkina Faso

Kevane

2020

Economic Development and Cultural Change

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This paper presents results from a reading program for youth living in villages in southwestern Burkina Faso. Standard experimental games were used to measure the effects of increased reading of fiction on several attitudes and preferences important for economic development. After six months of access and encouragement to read appropriate young adult fiction, there were few differences in any of four measured outcomes (trust, contribution to public goods, risk, and patience) between those participating in the reading program and the control group. Since the rise of mass-distributed novels in the 1800s, many have hypothesized that fiction would have significant effects on the values and preferences of readers. Advocates of fiction have argued that readers develop better intuitions about the interior lives of themselves and of others. These enhanced intuitions might change social behavior and actions that influence future selves. The null results presented here suggest the relevance of more research on this question, as countries in sub-Saharan Africa devote public resources to fund reading promotion programs in and out of school.

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Lee (2009) Treatment-Effect Bounds for Nonrandom Sample Selection

Cited by 37 publications

References 17 publications

Sex of children and family structure in Brazil: father & grandmother bias?

Sex of children and family structure in Brazil: father & grandmother bias?

The Effects of Tulsa's Pre‐K Program on Middle School Student Performance

Reading Fiction and Economic Preferences of Rural Youth in Burkina Faso

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