Structural Estimation

A topic within Econometrics, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Economics.

Reading on Structural Estimation

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Lecture2000

Micro Data, Heterogeneity and the Evaluation of Public Policy

James J. Heckman

Argues that because people respond differently to the same policy, an average treatment effect estimated on one population is not automatically the right number for predicting what a different policy would do to a different population.

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Lecture2000

Economic Choices

Daniel McFadden

Sets out how discrete choice models recover the underlying preferences behind a decision between a finite set of options, from which car to buy to which route to commute, from data on which option people actually pick.