After decades of rising global economic integration, the world economy is now fragmenting. To measure this phenomenon, we introduce an index of geopolitical fragmentation derived from various ...

Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation Identifying the causal impact of capital inflows on growth and development has been a perennial challenge. This paper ...

Hai and James Heckman, who—according to Research Papers in Economics (RePEc)—is the third-most influential economist in the world, recently collaborated to study the causal effect of youth cigarette ...

Gary Seidman profiles Stanford economist Guido Imbens, who is reshaping how researchers establish cause and effect in the real world So Imbens and his colleagues designed and tested sharper tools to ...

Six percent of children in the United States enter foster care by age 18. We estimate the effects of foster care on children’s outcomes by exploiting the quasi- random assignment of child welfare ...

This course is compulsory on the BSc in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics and BSc in Economics. This course is not available as an outside option to students on other programmes. This course is ...

How do people respond to terrorist events? Exploiting the timing of the 2010 wave of the annual ‘Society Opinion Media’ survey in Sweden, we study the causal effect of the Stockholm bombings of 11 ...