A sample of recent stuff

"The Effect of an Employer Health Insurance Mandate on Health Insurance Coverage and the Demand for Labor: Evidence from Hawaii" with Thomas C. Buchmueller, and Robert G. Valletta is now an IZA working paper. I, alone among the three co-authors, did not get to do any " on site" research for this project. :-)

"New Evidence on the Finite Sample Properties of Propensity Score Matching and Reweighting Estimators" is now downloadable from the IZA website as IZA Discussion Paper No. 3998. This is one of the papers buried inside our longer one -- Finite Sample Properties of Semiparametric Average Treatment Effect Estimators and is in large part, the product of the two younger, smarter co-authors, trying to explain something to the older, slower co-author.

Lies, Damn Lies, and Pre-Election Polling (original) This is prepared for the AEA Meetings in San Francisco, and should come out in the May 2009, Papers and Proceedings.

• Web Appendix This contains all the web-appendix material referred to in the paper.
• "AER Version" This is the worst version of the paper (in order to accomodate the < 13 page limit, we had to drop references, footnotes, figures, etc.
• "Better Version" This is a much better version and only ever so slightly longer than the AER version. What we would have liked to send to the AER, but they were completely uncompromising. It's far easier to read.
• "gzipped tar file" of programs, data, etc. This has all the data and programs used in the paper.

Finite Sample Properties of Semiparametric Average Treatment Effect Estimators This paper is certainly going to "evolve"; my co-authors are teaching me amazing quantities of stuff about econometrics and statistics and the paper will have to be split into parts someday soon.

Introductory Remarks on Metastatistics for the Practically Minded Non-Bayesian Regression Runner prepared for the Palgrave Handbook of Econometrics: Vol. 2 Applied Econometrics by Terence C. Mills and Kerry Patterson. (Updated 1 August 2008 with a real "conclusion" and a lot of typo fixes).

3 (?) Reviews of Freakonomics (published, published, unpublished)

Bacolod, DiNardo, and Jacobson, "Beyond Incentives: Do Schools use Accountability Rewards Productively?" (unpublished)

DiNardo and McCrary and Sanbonmatsu, "Constructive Proposals for Dealing with Attrition " (unpublished)

DiNardo and Winfree, "The Law of Genius and Home Runs Refuted" (accepted with minor revisions)

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Job Market Candidate Committees that I'm on this year (2008-2009 Season) (in alphabetical order):

• Rodney Andrews Economics of Education, Labor Economics, Public Finance Applied Microeconometrics, Program Evaluation -- Sheldon Danziger, Kerwin Charles, and Paul Courant.
• Benjamin Keys Labor Economics, Public Finance, Applied Econometrics, Consumer Finance. Committee: Charles Brown (chair), Michael Barr, Sheldon Danziger, Michael Elsby, John DiNardo. His paper "Did Securitization Lead to Lax Screening? Evidence from Subprime Loans"

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