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PhD Economics University of Chicago
Masters Economics University of Chicago
Bachelors Economics University of Chicago

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According to Wikipedia, Petra Elisabeth Todd is an American economist whose research interests include labor economics, development economics, microeconomics, and econometrics. She is the Edward J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, and is also affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania Population Studies Center, the Human Capital and Equal Opportunity Global Working Group , the IZA Institute of Labor Economics and the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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Petra Todd's Published Works

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Matching As An Econometric Evaluation Estimator: Evidence from Evaluating a Job Training Programme (1997) (5235)
Matching As An Econometric Evaluation Estimator (1998) (3818)
Does Matching Overcome Lalonde's Critique of Nonexperimental Estimators? (2000) (3278)
Characterizing Selection Bias Using Experimental Data (1998) (2607)
IDENTIFICATION AND ESTIMATION OF TREATMENT EFFECTS WITH A REGRESSION-DISCONTINUITY DESIGN (2001) (2570)
On the Specification and Estimation of the Production Function for Cognitive Achievement (2003) (1583)
Earnings Functions, Rates of Return and Treatment Effects: The Mincer Equation and Beyond (2005) (892)
Fifty Years of Mincer Earnings Regressions (2003) (637)
The Production of Cognitive Achievement in Children: Home, School, and Racial Test Score Gaps (2007) (637)
Racial Bias in Motor Vehicle Searches: Theory and Evidence (1999) (617)
Assessing the Impact of a School Subsidy Program in Mexico: Using a Social Experiment to Validate a Dynamic Behavioral Model of Child Schooling and Fertility. (2006) (536)
Evaluating Preschool Programs When Length of Exposure to the Program Varies: A Nonparametric Approach (2000) (365)
Reconciling Conflicting Evidence on the Performance of Propensity-Score Matching Methods (2001) (352)
Earnings Functions and Rates of Return (2008) (349)
Progressing through PROGRESA: An Impact Assessment of a School Subsidy Experiment in Rural Mexico (2005) (330)
Human Capital Pricing Equations with an Application to Estimating the Effect of Schooling Quality on Earnings (1996) (303)
Progressing Through Progresa: An Impact Assessment of a School Subsidy Experiment (2001) (264)
Long-term impacts of the oportunidades conditional cash transfer program on rural youth in Mexico (2005) (214)
Sources of selection bias in evaluating social programs: an interpretation of conventional measures and evidence on the effectiveness of matching as a program evaluation method. (1996) (210)
Chapter 7 Earnings Functions, Rates of Return and Treatment Effects: The Mincer Equation and Beyond (2006) (207)
Do Conditional Cash Transfers for Schooling Generate Lasting Benefits?: A Five-Year Followup of PROGRESA/Oportunidades (2012) (205)
Does Measured School Quality Really Matter? An Examination of the Earnings-Quality Relationship (1995) (192)
Evaluating Social Programs with Endogenous Program Placement and Selection of the Treated (2007) (191)
The Production of Cognitive Achievement in Children: Home, School and Racial Test Score Gaps (2004) (163)
Aligning Learning Incentives of Students and Teachers: Results from a Social Experiment in Mexican High Schools (2012) (145)
The Structural Estimation of Behavioral Models: Discrete Choice Dynamic Programming Methods and Applications (2011) (144)
International Food Policy Research Institute Randomness in the Experimental Samples of Progresa (education, Health, and Nutrition Program) (2001) (130)
Using a Social Experiment to Validate a Dynamic Behavioral Model of Child Schooling and Fertility: Assessing the Impact of a School Subsidy Program in Mexico (2003) (124)
Understanding Black-White Wage Differentials, 1960-1990 (2000) (121)
Conditional Cash Transfers: The Case of Progresa/Oportunidades (2017) (115)
Schooling Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfers on Young Children: Evidence from Mexico (2009) (115)
Ex Ante Evaluation of Social Programs (2006) (113)
The Chilean Pension Reform Turns 25: Lessons from the Social Protection Survey (2006) (112)
A Note on Adapting Propensity Score Matching and Selection Models to Choice Based Samples (2009) (105)
THE IMPACT OF PROGRESA ON ACHIEVEMENT TEST SCORES IN THE FIRST YEAR (2000) (101)
Implementing Nonparametric and Semiparametric Estimators (2006) (100)
Evaluating the Effect of an Antidiscrimination Law Using a Regression-Discontinuity Design (1999) (99)
A Theory of Optimal Random Crackdowns (2010) (97)
How Beliefs About HIV Status Affect Risky Behaviors: Evidence from Malawi, Second Version (2008) (89)
Are conditional cash transfers effective in urban areas? Evidence from Mexico (2011) (82)
Generalising the Hit Rates Test for Racial Bias in Law Enforcement, with an Application to Vehicle Searches in Wichita (2006) (81)
Matching Estimators (2006) (73)
The Schooling of Southern Blacks: The Roles of Legal Activism and Private Philanthropy, 1910-1960 (2000) (72)
Effects of school reformon education and labor market performance: Evidence from Chile's universal voucher system. (2010) (67)
Do Conditional Cash Transfers for Schooling Generate Lasting Benefits? (2011) (58)
Passenger Profiling, Imperfect Screening, and Airport Security (2005) (53)
The Hit Rates Test for Racial Bias in Motor‐Vehicle Searches (2008) (51)
Personality traits, intra-household allocation and the gender wage gap (2017) (43)
Matching as an econometric estimator (1998) (39)
Structural Estimation and Policy Evaluation in Developing Countries (2009) (39)
Sex with stitches: assessing the resumption of sexual activity during the postcircumcision wound-healing period (2012) (37)
The Longer-Term Effects of Human Capital Enrichment Programs on Poverty and Inequality: Oportunidades in Mexico (2011) (36)
Within-Family Program Effect Estimators: The Impact of Oportunidades on Schooling in Mexico (2006) (35)
Chapter 74 Implementing Nonparametric and Semiparametric Estimators (2007) (33)
Medium-Term Effects of the Oportunidades Program Package, including Nutrition, on Education of Rural Children Age 0-8 in 1997 (2004) (30)
Learning from the Chilean Experience: The Determinants of Pension Switching (2007) (27)
The Schooling Quality-Earnings Relationship: Using Economic Theory to Interpret Functional Forms Consistent with the Evidence (1995) (26)
Teacher Quality in Public and Private Schools under a Voucher System: The Case of Chile (2016) (22)
International Food Policy Research Institute a Report on the Sample Sizes Used for the Evaluation of the Education, Health, and Nutrition Program (progresa) of Mexico (1999) (22)
Effectiveness of Interventions Aimed at Improving Women's Employability and Quality of Work: A Critical Review (2012) (21)
A Dynamic Model of Personality, Schooling, and Occupational Choice (2019) (20)
Characterization of selection bias using experimental data (1998) (19)
Do School Subsidy Programs Generate Lasting Benefits? 2011. A Five-Year Follow-Up of Oportunidades Participants (2011) (17)
Preliminary and Incomplete Using Experimental Data to Validate a Dynamic Behavioral Model of Child Schooling and Fertility: Assessing the Impact of a School Subsidy Program in Mexico (2002) (17)
OF THE PRODUCTION FUNCTION FOR COGNITIVE ACHIEVEMENT (2003) (15)
Estimating a Coordination Game in the Classroom (2012) (14)
Accounting for Mathematics Performance of High School Students in Mexico: Estimating a Coordination Game in the Classroom (2018) (13)
Incentives for Students and Parents (2013) (13)
How Beliefs about HIV Affect Risky Behaviors: Evidence from Malawi (2009) (13)
How to Improve Women ’ s Employability and Quality of Work in Developing and Transition Economies (2013) (12)
A Test Of Lazear’S Mandatory Retirement Model (2000) (10)
How Pension Rules Affect Work and Contribution Patterns: A Behavioral Model of the Chilean Privatized Pension System (2008) (10)
How Universal School Vouchers Affect Educational and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Chile (2008) (8)
Personality Traits, Job Search and the Gender Wage Gap (2020) (8)
Product Choice Under Government Regulation: The Case of Chile's Privatized Pension System (2018) (8)
How Beliefs About HIV Status Affect Risky Behaviors: Evidence from Malawi, Fifth Version (2010) (7)
Assessing the Performance of Nonexperimental Estimators for Evaluating Head Start (2017) (7)
How the Design of a Pension System Influences Old Age Poverty and Gender Equity: A Study of Chile’s Private Retirement Accounts System (2012) (6)
Estimations of Limited Dependent Variable Models with Dummy Endogenous Regressors: Simple Strategies for Empirical Practice: Comment (2001) (6)
Impacts of Prospera on Enrollment, School Trajectories, and Learning (2019) (6)
Investor Behavior and Fund Performance Under a Privatized Retirement Accounts System: Evidence from Chile (2009) (5)
Propensity Score Matching , a Distance-Based Measure of Migration , and the Wages of Young Men (2006) (5)
A Rational Theory of Random Crackdowns ∗ (2005) (5)
2008-2 Earnings Functions and Rates of Return (2008) (5)
Social Action, Private Choice, and Philanthropy: Understanding the Sources of Improvements in Black Schooling in Georgia, 1911-1960 (1998) (4)
Impact Evaluation in International Development: Theory, Methods, and Practice (2022) (4)
Generalizing the Hit Rates Test for Racial Bias in Law Enforcement , With an Application to Vehicle Searches in Wichita 1 (2006) (4)
The Impact of School Voucher Systems on Teacher Quality in Public and Private Schools : The Case of Chile (4)
Book review of Ariel Fiszbein et al. (2009)’s book Conditional Cash Transfers: Reducing Present and Future Poverty (2011) (4)
CAMBRIDGE WORKING PAPERS IN ECONOMICS Prospering through Prospera: CCT Impacts on Educational Attainment and Achievement in Mexico (2021) (3)
Expanding Pension Coverage : A Dynamic Analysis of Chile ’ s Pension Reform (2016) (3)
Reconsidering Racial Bias in Motor Vehicle Searches: Theory and Evidence - eScholarship (2010) (2)
School Voucher Effects on Education and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a Chile (2008) (2)
Testing for Racial Bias in Law Enforcement 1 (2006) (2)
Gender Pension Gaps in a Private Retirement Accounts System: A Dynamic Model of Household Labor Supply and Savings (2020) (1)
Labor Market Returns to Personality: A Job Search Approach to Understanding Gender Gaps (2022) (1)
A Dynamic Model of Taxation, Marital Status, Fertility, and Labor Supply (2009) (0)
2 THECOMMONEMPIRICAL STRUCTURE OF STATICANDDYNAMICDISCRETECHOICE MODELS 2 . 1 Latent Variable Framework (2009) (0)
Distributional Effects of Local Minimum Wages: A Spatial Job Search Approach (2022) (0)
ON T HE SPECIFICATION A ND ESTIMATION OF T HE PRODUCTION F UNCTION F OR COGNITIVE ACHIEVEMENT (2003) (0)
Working Papers in Economics : 1912 A DYNAMIC MODEL OF PERSONALITY , SCHOOLING , AND OCCUPATIONAL CHOICE (2019) (0)
Portfolio Considerations in Automobile Purchases : An Application to the Japanese Market (2014) (0)
The Best of Both Worlds: Combining Randomized Controlled Trials with Structural Modeling (2023) (0)
SESSION 1A: RACIAL INEQUALITY AND ECONOMIC PROGRESS (2001) (0)
UH/Rice Empirical Micro Seminar - Spring 2007 (2007) (0)
Choice of Product under Government Regulation : The Case of Chile Pension System (2008) (0)
Preface (2015) (0)
Evaluating Social Programs: Econometric Cost-Benefit Analysis (2001) (0)
Performance of matching as an econometric estimator: application to the JTPA program (1997) (0)

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