For the referee report, you can choose ONE out of the 25 papers in the list appended. The referee report should contain the following elements:

1.   Short description of the paper on its causal inference findings;

2.   Review on its research design and the application of causal inference method (e.g.

what kind of method, data, variables has been used, what kind of selection bias/omitted variable bias or causal inference problem has been solved with the method);

3.   Critically comment on the weakness of the paper from methodological perspective (e.g. unsolved bias, omitted variables, potential measurement errors etc.);

4.   Suggest on any improvement could be done on the papers (optional).

You should directly submit the report to moodle by the deadline of 18:30pm 25 December, 2022. The referee report shall not be too long, roughly one page no more than two, with    12pt Times New Roman font choice.

You can also choose a published, empirical paper using any of the methods we introduced in class (not from the below list) to referee on. But if you choose to referee the paper you find  instead of from the list, please send me email and the paper to get approval first. I will evaluate whether it is appropriate to be used for our final project.

Randomized Trial Experiment

1.   Brook, Robert H., et al, 1983. “Does Free Care Improve Adults’ Health? Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial.” New England Journal of Medicine 309(23): 1426-    34.

2.   Bertrand, Marianne, and Sendhil Mullainathan, 2004. “Are Emily and Greg more Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market         Discrimination.” American Economic Review 94(4): 991- 1013.

3.   Baicker, Katherine, et al., 2013. “The Oregon Experiment—Effects of Medicaid on Clinical Outcomes.” New England Journal of Medicine 368(18): 1713-22.

4.   Ginther, Donna K., et al., 2020. “Can Mentoring Help Female Assistant Professors in Economics? An Evaluation by Randomized Trial.” American Economic Review:        Papers and Proceedings 110: 205-09.

5.   Bhanot, Syon P., et al., 2021. “Can Community Service Grants Foster Social and Economic Integration for Youth? A Randomized Trial in Kazakhstan.” Journal of Development Economics 153: 102718.

OLS

6.  Neal, Derek A., and William R. Johnson, 1996. “The Role of Premarket Factors in Black-white Wage Differences.” Journal of Political Economy 104(5): 869-895.

7.   Dale, Stacy Berg, and Alan B. Krueger, 2002. “Estimating the Payoff to Attending a more Selective College: An Application of Selection on Observables and                  Unobservables.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 117(4): 1491-527.

8.   Alesina, Alberto, and Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, 2007. “Good-bye Lenin (or Not?): The Effect of Communism on People’s Preferences.” American Economic

Review 97(4): 1507-28.

9.   Ashenfelter, Orley, 2008. “Predicting the Quality and Prices of Bordeaux Wine.” The Economic Journal 118(529): 174-84.

10. Ferraro, Paul J., Juan Jose Miranda, and Michael K. Price, 2011. “The Persistence of Treatment Effects with Norm-based Policy Instruments: Evidence from a

Randomized Environmental Policy Experiment.” American Economic Review 101(3): 318-22.

Differences-in-Differences

11. Card, David, and Alan B. Krueger, 1994. “Minimum Wages and Employment: A        Case Study of the Fast-food Industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.” The American Economic Review 84(4): 772.

12. Dube, Arindrajit, T. William Lester, and Michael Reich, 2010. “Minimum Wage     Effects across State Borders: Estimates Using Contiguous Counties.” The Review of Economics and Statistics 92(4): 945-64.

13. Currie, Janet, and Reed Walker, 2011. “Traffic Congestion and Infant Health:            Evidence from E-ZPass.” American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 3(1): 65- 90.

14. Kudamatsu, Masayuki, 2012. “Has Democratization Reduced Infant Mortality in Sub- Saharan Africa? Evidence from Micro Data.” Journal of the European Economic        Association 10(6): 1294-317.

15. Cheng, Cheng, and Mark Hoekstra, 2013. “Does Strengthening Self-defense Law Deter Crime or Escalate Violence? Evidence from Expansions to Castle               Doctrine.” Journal of Human Resources 48(3): 821-54.

Fixed Effects Model (Panel Data)

16. Berrebi, Claude, and Esteban F. Klor, 2008. “Are Voters Sensitive to Terrorism? Direct Evidence from the Israeli Electorate.” American Political Science             Review 102(3): 279-301.

17. Snyder Jr, James M., and David Strömberg, 2010. “Press Coverage and Political Accountability.” Journal of Political Economy 118(2): 355-408.