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Seminar in Economics | Non-Random Exposure to Exogenous Shocks with Peter Hull

Department of Economics welcomes you to a seminar with Peter Hull, Brown University, presenting "Non-Random Exposure to Exogenous Shocks". We develop a new approach to estimating the causal effects of treatments or instruments that combine multiple sources of variation according to a known formula, and use this approach to address bias when estimating employment effects of market access growth from Chinese high-speed rail construction.

Welcome to this Higher Seminar in Economics organised by the Department of Economics, SSE. The seminar speaker is Peter Hull, Assistant Professor of Economics at Brown University, presenting "Non-Random Exposure to Exogenous Shocks".

Abstract

We develop a new approach to estimating the causal effects of treatments or instruments that combine multiple sources of variation according to a known formula. Examples include treatments capturing spillovers in social or transportation networks and simulated instruments for policy eligibility. We show how exogenous shocks to some, but not all, determinants of such variables can be leveraged while avoiding omitted variables bias. Our solution involves specifying counterfactual shocks that may as well have been realized and adjusting for a summary measure of non-randomness in shock exposure: the average treatment (or instrument) across shock counterfactuals. We use this approach to address bias when estimating employment effects of market access growth from Chinese high-speed rail construction.

Peter Hull is the Groos Family Assistant Professor of Economics at Brown University. Peter's research focuses on applied econometrics, education, healthcare, and discrimination.

This seminar takes place at Stockholm School of Economics, Sveavägen 65, room Torsten. 

Please contact kristen.pendleton@hhs.se if you have questions.

 

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