Large-Scale Education Reform in General Equilibrium: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from India: Comment

• Tác giả: David Roodman
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 296.834 Reform movements
• Thông tin xuất bản: 2023
• Bộ sưu tập: Metadata
• ID: 196671

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 Comment: 18 pages + references + appendices
  2 figures + 3 tables in main textThis paper reanalyzes Khanna (2023), which studies labor market effects of schooling in India through regression discontinuity designs. Absent from the data are four districts close to the discontinuity
  restoring them cuts the reduced-form impacts on schooling and log wages by 57% and 63%. Using regression-specific optimal band-widths and a robust variance estimator clustered at the geographic unit of treatment makes impacts statistically indistinguishable from 0. That finding is robust to varying the identifying threshold and the bandwidth. The estimates of general equilibrium effects and elasticities of substitution are not unbiased and have effectively infinite first and second moments.