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Comments on “Unobservable Selection and Coefficient Stability-Theory and Evidence” and “Poorly Measured Confounders are More Useful on the Left Than on the Right”

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  • Giuseppe De Luca

    (University of Palermo)

  • Jan R. Magnus

    (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

  • Franco Peracchi

    (Georgetown University and EIEF)

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The papers by Oster (2017) and Pei, Pischke and Schwandt (2017) contribute to the development of inferential procedures for causal effects in the challenging and empirically relevant situation where the unknown data-generation process is not included in the set of models considered by the investigator. In this note, we establish a linkage between these two studies. Further, we use the general misspecification framework proposed by De Luca, Magnus and Peracchi (2018) to analyze the restrictions imposed by the two approaches.

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  • Giuseppe De Luca & Jan R. Magnus & Franco Peracchi, 2018. "Comments on “Unobservable Selection and Coefficient Stability-Theory and Evidence” and “Poorly Measured Confounders are More Useful on the Left Than on the Right”," EIEF Working Papers Series 1802, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF), revised Feb 2018.
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