Using a Discontinuous Grant to Identify the Effect of Grants on Local Taxes and Spending

Identification and Estimation of Treatment Effects with a Regression-Discontinuity Design

Jinyong Hahn, Petra Todd, Wilbert van der Klaauw · Econometrica · 2001 · 2.8K citations

Public Health, Economics, Causal Inference +12

Anomalies: The Flypaper Effect

James R. Hines, Richard H. Thaler · The Journal of Economic Perspectives · 1995 · 808 citations · Full text

Public Affairs, Economics, Public Finance +13

Unnatural Experiments? Estimating the Incidence of Endogenous Policies

Timothy Besley, Anne Case · The Economic Journal · 2000 · 691 citations

Social Sciences, Economics, Public Policy +10

Endogenous Federal Grants and Crowd-out of State Government Spending: Theory and Evidence from the Federal Highway Aid Program

Brian Knight · American Economic Review · 2002 · 424 citations

Public Affairs, Economics, Public Finance +17

Using Maimonides' Rule to Estimate the Effect of Class Size on Student Achievement

Joshua D. Angrist, Victor Lavy · National Bureau of Economic Research · 1997 · 335 citations · Full text

Public Health, Educational Assessment, Educational Measurement +11