Reading List for Minicourse at Peking University

Aakvik, Arild, James Heckman, and Edward Vytlacil (2005), "Treatment Effects For Discrete Outcomes when Responses To Treatment Vary Among Observationally Identical Persons: An Application to Norwegian Vocational Rehabilitation Programs,"
Journal of Econometrics, March-April 2005, 125(1-2): 15-51.

Carneiro, Pedro, James J. Heckman and Edward Vytlacil (2007). "Estimating Marginal and Average Returns to Education," Under review, American Economic Review.

Cunha, Flavio and Heckman, James J. "The Evolution of Labor Earnings Risk in the U.S. Economy."

• Handout for Cunha and Heckman

Cunha, Flavio and James J. Heckman. (2007). "Identifying and Estimating the Distributions of Ex Post and Ex Ante Returns to Schooling: A Survey of Recent Developments," Labour Economics. Forthcoming.

Heckman, James J. (2007). "Schools, Skills and Synapses." (Note: very large file. Please allow time for download).

Heckman, James J., Lance Lochner and Petra E. Todd. (2006). "Earnings Equations and Rates of Return: The Mincer Equation and Beyond," in Handbook of the Economics of Education, E. Hanushek and F. Welch, eds. Amsterdam: North-Holland, pp. 307-458.

• Handout for Heckman, Lochner and Todd (2006)

Heckman, James J., Daniel Schmierer and Sergio Urzua. (2007). "Testing for Essential Heterogeneity." Unpublished manuscript, University of Chicago, Department of Economics.

• Handbout for Heckman, Schmierer and Urzua (2007)

Heckman, James J. and Jeffrey Smith (1998) “Evaluating the Welfare State.” In Steiner  Strom, ed., Econometrics and Economic Theory in the 20th Century: The Ragnar Frisch Centennial.  Cambridge University Press for Econometric Society Monograph Series,
241-318.

• Handout: "Evaluating Economic Policy: Theoretical and Empirical Lessons from the Literature."

Heckman, James J., Sergio Urzua and Edward Vytlacil, (2006) "Understanding Instrumental Variables in Models with Essential Heterogeneity,"  Review of Economics and Statistics, 2006, 88(3): 389-432.

• Handout for Heckman, Urzua and Vytlacil (2006)

Heckman, James J. and Edward Vytlacil (2007). "Evaluating Marginal Policy Changes and the Average Effect of Treatment for Individuals at the Margin," Unpublished manuscript, University of Chicago.

• Handout for Heckman and Vytlacil (2007)

Heckman, James J. and Edward Vytlacil (2005), "Structural Equations, Treatment Effects, and Econometric Policy Evaluation," Econometrica, May 2005, 73(3): 669-738.

Tsai, Shu-Ling and Yu Xie (2007). "Returns to College Education Reexamined: Individual Treatment Effects, Selection Bias and Sorting Gain." Unpublished manuscript, University of Michigan.

• Handout for Tsai and Xie (2007)

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