MIT Dept. of Economics Working Papers Series: Recent submissions

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    • Housing Market Spillovers: Evidence from the End of Rent Control in Cambridge Massachusetts 

      Autor, David; Palmer, Christopher J.; Pathak, Parag A. (Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012-05-24)
      Understanding potential spillovers from the attributes and actions of neighborhood residents onto the value of surrounding properties and neighborhoods is central to both the theory of urban economics and the development ...

    • Inference on Treatment Effects after Selection amongst High-Dimensional Controls 

      Belloni, Alexandre; Chernozhukov, Victor; Hansen, Christian (Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012-05-03)
      We propose robust methods for inference on the effect of a treatment variable on a scalar outcome in the presence of very many controls. Our setting is a partially linear model with possibly non-Gaussian and heteroscedastic ...

    • The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States 

      Autor, David; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon (Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012-05-02)
      We analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition between 1990 and 2007 on local U.S. labor markets, exploiting cross-market variation in import exposure stemming from initial differences in industry specialization ...