- Preface
- Introduction
- Identification
- Tolerating Ambiguity
- 1. Extrapolation
- 1.1 Predicting Criminality
- 1.2 Probabilistic Prediction
- 1.3 Inferring Conditional Distributions from Random-Sample Data
- 1.4 Prior Distributional Information
- 1.5 Predicting High School Graduation
- 2. The Selection Problem
- 2.1 The Nature of the Problem
- 2.2 Identification from Censored Samples Alone
- 2.3 Bounding the Probability of Exiting Homelessness
- 2.4 Prior Distributional Information
- 2.5 Identification of Treatment Effects
- 2.6 Information Linking Outcomes across Treatments
- 2.7 Predicting High School Graduation If All Families Were Intact
- 3. The Mixing Problem in Program Evaluation
- 3.1 The Experimental Evaluation of Social Programs
- 3.2 Variation in Treatment
- 3.3 The Perry Preschool Project
- 3.4 Identification of Mixtures Using Only Knowledge of the Marginals
- 3.5 Restrictions on the Outcome Distribution
- 3.6 Restrictions on the Treatment Policy
- 3.7 Identifying Combinations of Assumptions
- 4. Response-Based Sampling
- 4.1 The Odds Ratio and Public Health
- 4.2 Bounds on Relative and Attributable Risk
- 4.3 Information on Marginal Distributions
- 4.4 Sampling from One Response Stratum
- 4.5 General Binary Stratifications
- 5. Predicting Individual Behavior
- 5.1 Revealed Preference Analysis
- 5.2 How Do Youth Infer the Returns to Schooling
- 5.3 Analysis of Intentions Data
- 6. Simultaneity
- 6.1 “The” Identification Problem in Econometrics
- 6.2 The Linear Market Model
- 6.3 Equilibrium in Games
- 6.4 Simultaneity with Downward-Sloping Demand
- 7. The Reflection Problem
- 7.1 Endogenous, Contextual, and Correlated Effects
- 7.2 A Linear Model
- 7.3 A Pure Endogenous Effects Model
- 7.4 Inferring the Composition of Reference Groups
- 7.5 Dynamic Analysis
- Notes
- References
- Name Index
- Subject Index


Identification Problems in the Social Sciences
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Publication Date: 03/15/1999