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The third in this year's job market series looks at a mentorship program for vocational training graduates in Uganda.

Small and fragmented farmland parcels are widely believed to be major impediments to agricultural activities. In this study, instrumental variables models are constructed to estimate the influence of the farm size and the number of farmland plots on household welfare proxied by income and the asset index in Vietnam. The study exploits the panel data of households collected from the Vietnam Access to Resources Household Survey (VARHS) every second year in the period 2008–2014, capturing cultural, political and socioeconomic dimensions of rural Vietnam. A positive relationship was found betwee...

This study moves beyond the consensus of counting electrified households as a measure of progress in gender energy parity. Using the India Human Development Survey, we examine the effect of reliability of electrification on empowerment of women in terms of economic autonomy, agency, mobility and decision-making abilities, underscoring the labor market and respite effects of service reliability. We develop a comprehensive set of empowerment indices using principal component analysis and assess the causal effects of power outages on the indices with instrumental variable regressions while contro...

This paper proposes an instrumental variable regression estimator of population totals using a sample, a set of links between the sample units and records on an administrative file, and a set of calibration totals calculated from the administrative file. This paper proposes a survey-weighted estimator of a population total that is valid when the survey non-response mechanism is non-ignorable and false negatives occur in the administrative-survey linkage. False negatives lead to measurement error in the administrative variables that are available on the survey and will lead to biased estimates ...

Book review of Cunningham’s Causal Inference: The Mixtape was accompanied by the unusual sight of multiple economists proudly posting photos (e.g. 1, 2, 3) on twitter of the arrival of the book at their houses like they had just scored tickets to a sold-out concert. This book has two fantastic features for readers interested in impact evaluation. First, Scott has provided a free online version of the book, as a compliment to the paper copy. Second, the book provides Stata and R code throughout, which both shortens the distance from theory to practice, and can serve as a great way of helping...