Publications scientifiques
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Articles
Publié dans des revues académiques à comité de lecture
"How causal machine learning can leverage marketing strategies: Assessing and improving the performance of a coupon campaign", with H. Langen, forthcoming in PLoS ONE.
"A Machine Learning Approach for Flagging Incomplete Bid-rigging Cartels", with H. Wallimann and D. Imhof, forthcoming in Computational Economics.
"Perceived Anonymity and Cheating in an Online Experiment", with E. Denisova-Schmidt and Y. Prytula, forthcoming in Eastern European Economics.
"Bounds on direct and indirect effects under treatment/mediator endogeneity and outcome attrition", with L. Lafférs, forthcoming in Econometric Reviews.
"The fiscal response to revenue shocks", with S. Berset and M. Schelker, forthcoming in International Tax and Public Finance.
"Evaluating (weighted) dynamic treatment effects by double machine learning", with H. Bodory and L. Lafférs, forthcoming in the Econometrics Journal.
"Causal mediation analysis with double machine learning", with H. Farbmacher, L. Lafférs, H. Langen, and M. Spindler, forthcom- ing in the Econometrics Journal.
"Transnational machine learning with screens for flagging bid-rigging cartels", with D. Imhof and R. Ishii, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, 185 (3), 1074-1114, 2022.
"Business analytics meets artificial intelligence: Assessing the demand effects of discounts on Swiss train tickets", with J. Meier and
- Wallimann, Transportation Research Part B, 163, 22-39, 2022.
"Direct and Indirect Effects based on Changes-in-Changes", with M. Schelker and A. Strittmatter, forthcoming in the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics.
"On the plausibility of the latent ignorability assumption", Econometrics, 9 (4), 47, 1-7, 2021.
"Time Preferences across Language Groups: Evidence on Intertemporal Choices from the Swiss Language Border", with H. Herz, T. Maillard-Bjedov, and S. Tyahlo, forthcoming in the Economic Journal.
"Instrument-based estimation with binarized treatments: issues and tests for the exclusion restriction", with M. E. Andresen, forthcoming in the Econometrics Journal.
"Assessing the effects of seasonal tariff-rate quotas on vegetable prices in Switzerland", with D. Loginova and M. Portmann, forth- coming in the Journal of Agricultural Economics.
"A framework for separating individual-level treatment effects from spillover effects", with A. Steinmayr, forthcoming in the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics.
"Gender Differences in Wage Expectations", with A. Fernandes and G. Vaccaro, PLoS ONE 16 (6): e0250892, 2021.
"Combining experimental evidence with machine learning to assess anti-corruption educational campaigns among Russian university students", with E. Denisova-Schmidt, E. Leontyeva, and A. Solovyeva, forthcoming in Empirical Economics.
"Direct and indirect effects of continuous treatments based on generalized propensity score weighting", with Y.-C. Hsu, Y.-Y. Lee, and L. Lettry, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 35 (7), 814-840, 2020.
"Direct and indirect effects under sample selection and outcome attrition", with A. Solovyeva, Econometrics, 8 (4), 44, 1-25, 2020.
"Endogeneity and Non-Response Bias in Treatment Evaluation: Nonparametric Identification of Causal Effects by Instruments", with H. Fricke, M. Frölich, and M. Lechner, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 35 (5), 481-504, 2020.
"The Impact of Response Measures on COVID-19-Related Hospitalization and Death Rates in Germany and Switzerland", with H. Langen, Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 156 (10), 1-19, 2020.
"On the sensitivity of wage gap decompositions", with A. Solovyeva, Journal of Labor Research, 41 (1), 1-33, 2020.
"The Finite Sample Performance of Inference Methods for Propensity Score Matching and Weighting Estimators", with H. Bodory, L. Camponovo, and M. Lechner, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 38 (1), 183-200, 2020.
"Including Covariates in the Regression Discontinuity Design", with M. Frölich, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 37 (4), 736-748, 2019.
"Direct and indirect effects based on difference-in-differences with an application to political preferences following the Vietnam draft lottery", with E. Deuchert and M. Schelker, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 37 (4), 710-720, 2019.
"The effects of anti-corruption videos on attitudes towards corruption in a Ukrainian online survey", with E. Denisova-Schmidt and Y. Prytula, Eurasian Geography and Economics, 60 (3), 304-332, 2019.
"Kausalanalyse mit maschinellem Lernen (English title: Combining Causal Analysis with Machine Learning)", HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik, 57, 106-116, 2019.
"Machine learning with screens for detecting bid-rigging cartels", with D. Imhof, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 65, 277–301, 2019.
"Evaluating an information campaign about rural development policies in (FYR) Macedonia", with A. Kotevska, A. Martinovska Stojcheska, and A. Solovyeva, Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 48 (1), 117-141, 2019.
"Nonparametric estimation of natural direct and indirect effects based on inverse probability weighting", with Y.-C. Hsu and T.-C. Lai, Journal of Econometric Methods, 8 (1), 2019.
"Evaluating local average and quantile treatment effects under endogeneity based on instruments : a review", with K. Wüthrich, Journal of Econometric Methods, 8 (1), 2019.
"Direct and indirect effects of training vouchers for the unemployed", with M. Lechner and A. Strittmatter, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, 181 (2), 441-463, 2018.
"Direct and indirect treatment effects: Causal chains and mediation analysis with instrumental variables", with M. Frölich, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B, 79 (5), 1645–1666, 2017.
"Testing the validity of the compulsory schooling law instrument", with B. Bolzern, Economics Letters, 159, 23-27, 2017.
"The Finite Sample Performance of Semi- and Nonparametric Estimators for Treatment Effects and Policy Evaluation", with M. Frölich and M. Wiesenfarth, Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 115, 91–102, 2017.
"A cautionary tale about control variables in IV estimation", with E. Deuchert, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 79 (3), 411–425, 2017.
"Why do tougher caseworkers increase employment? The role of programme assignment as a causal mechanism", with M. Lechner and G. Mellace, Review of Economics and Statistics, 99 (1), 180–183, 2017.
"Does preschool boost the development of minority children? The case of Roma children", with C. Felfe, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, 180 (2), 475–502, 2017.
"Sharp IV bounds on average treatment effects on the treated and other populations under endogeneity and noncompliance", with L. Laffers and G. Mellace, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 32 (1), 56–79, 2017.
"The Effect of Firms' Partial Retirement Policies on the Labour Market Outcomes of their Employees", with M. Lechner and C. Wunsch, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 69 (5), 1216–1248, 2016.
“On the Development of Students’ Attitudes towards Corruption and Cheating in Russian Universities”, with E. Denisova-Schmidt and E. Leontyeva, European Journal of Higher Education, 6 (2), 128-143, 2016.
"An Experimental Evaluation of an Anti-Corruption Intervention among Ukrainian University Students", with E. Denisova-Schmidt and Y. Prytula, Eurasian Geography and Economics, 56 (6), 713–734, 2016.
“Do Anti-Corruption Educational Campaigns Reach Students? Some Evidence from Russia and Ukraine”, with E. Denisova-Schmidt and E. Leontyeva, Educational Studies Moscow, 1, 61-83, 2016.
"The finite sample performance of estimators for mediation analysis under sequential conditional independence", with M. Lechner and G. Mellace, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 34 (1), 139-160, 2016.
"A test of the conditional independence assumption in sample selection models", with B. Melly, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 30 (7), 1144–1168, 2015.
"Workplace health promotion and labour market performance of employees", with M. Lechner and C. Wunsch, Journal of Health Economics, 43, 170–189, 2015.
"Radius matching on the propensity score with bias adjustment: finite sample behaviour, tuning parameters and software implementation", with M. Lechner and A. Steinmayr, Empirical Economics, 49 (1), 1-31, 2015.
"Causal pitfalls in the decomposition of wage gaps", Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 33 (2), 179-191, 2015.
"Testing instrument validity for LATE identification based on inequality moment constraints", with G. Mellace, Review of Economics and Statistics, 97 (2), 398–411, 2015.
"Testing the validity of the sibling sex ratio instrument", LABOUR: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, 29 (1), 1-14, 2015.
"Sharp bounds on causal effects under sample selection", with G. Mellace, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 77 (1), 129–151, 2015.
"Should Welfare Administration be Centralized or Decentralized? Evidence from a Policy Experiment", with B. Boockmann, S. Thomsen, T. Walter, and C. Göbel, German Economic Review, 16 (1), 13–42, 2015.
"Treatment evaluation with multiple outcome periods under endogeneity and attrition", with M. Frölich, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 109 (508), 1697-1711, 2014.
"Testing exclusion restrictions and additive separability in sample selection models", with G. Mellace, Empirical Economics, 47 (1), 75-92, 2014.
"Identifying causal mechanisms (primarily) based on inverse probability weighting", Journal of Applied Econometrics, 29 (6), 920-943, 2014.
"Regional Differences in Perceived Corruption among Ukrainian Firms", with E. Denisova-Schmidt, Eurasian Geography and Economics, 55 (1), 10-36, 2014."Sensitivity checks for the local average treatment effect", Economics Letters, 123 (2), 220-223, 2014.
"Treatment evaluation in the presence of sample selection", Econometric Reviews, 33 (8), 869-905, 2014.
"A simple test for the ignorability of non-compliance in experiments", Economics Letters, 120 (3), 389-391, 2013."The performance of estimators based on the propensity score", with M. Lechner and C. Wunsch, Journal of Econometrics, 175 (1), 1-21, 2013.
"Identification of average treatment effects in social experiments under alternative forms of attrition", Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 37 (3), 443-474, 2012.
"Does Leaving Welfare Improve Health? Evidence for Germany", with M. Lechner and C. Wunsch, Health Economics, 20 (4), 484-504, 2011.
"Do German Welfare-to-Work Programmes Reduce Welfare Dependency and Increase Employment?", with M. Lechner, C. Wunsch, and T. Walter, German Economic Review, 12 (2), 182-204, 2011.
"Testing for covariate balance using nonparametric quantile regression and resampling methods", Journal of Applied Statistics, 38 (12), 2881-2899, 2011.
Invited contributions
"Disentangling policy effects into causal channels", IZA World of Labor, 2016.
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Monograhie
Huber, M. (2021): "An introduction to flexible methods for policy evaluation", in Hashimzade, N., and Thornton, M. A.: Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Empirical Microeconomics, Edward Elgar Publishing
Huber, M. (2021): "Mediation Analysis", in Zimmermann, K. F.: Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
Denisova-Schmidt, E., Huber, M., Pohorila, N., Prytula, Y., and Tyahlo, S. (2019): “Recent Regional Economic Develop- ment in Ukraine: Does History Help to Explain the Differences?”, in Myshlovska, O., and Schmid, U.: Regionalism without Regions - Reconceptualizing Ukraine’s Heterogeneity, CEU Press.
Denisova-Schmidt, E., Huber, M., and Prytula, Y. (2017): “Corruption among Ukrainian Businesses: Do Firm Size, Indus- try and Region Matter? “, in Leither, J., and Meissner, H.: Political Risks and their Impacts on the Business Environment of BSR Countries, Routledge.
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Working papers
"Detecting Grouped Local Average Treatment Effects and Selecting True Instruments", with N. Apfel, H. Farbmacher, R. Groh, and Langen, arXiv preprint 2207.04481, 2022.
"How causal machine learning can leverage marketing strategies: Assessing and improving the performance of a coupon campaign", with H. Langen, arXiv preprint 2204.10820, 2022.
"Testing the identification of causal effects in observational data", with J. Kueck, arXiv preprint 2203.15890, 2022.
"From homemakers to breadwinners? How mandatory kindergarten affects maternal labour market attachment", with S. Gangl, arXiv preprint 2111.14524, 2021.
"Testing Monotonicity of Mean Potential Outcomes in a Continuous Treatment", with Y.-C. Hsu, Y.-Y. Lee, and C.-A. Liu, arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.04237, 2021.
"How residence permits affect the labor market attachment of foreign workers: Evidence from a migration lottery in Liechtenstein", with B. Buechel and S. Gangl, arXiv preprint 2105.11840, 2021.
"Double machine learning for sample selection models", with M. Bia and L. Lafférs, arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.00745, 2020.
"The effects of gender and parental occupation in the apprenticeship market: an experimental evaluation", with A. Fernandes and C. Plaza, SES Working Paper 506, University of Fribourg, 2019.
"The causalweight package for causal inference in R", with H. Bodory, SES Working Paper 493, University of Fribourg, 2018.
"It's Never Too LATE: A New Look at Local Average Treatment Effects with or Without Defiers", with C. Dahl and G. Mellace, Discussion Paper 2/2017 on Business and Economics, University of Southern Denmark, 2017.
"How war affects political attitudes: Evidence from eastern Ukraine", with S. Tyahlo, SES Working Paper 472, University of Fribourg, 2016.
"A Wild Bootstrap Algorithm for Propensity Score Matching Estimators", with H. Bodory, L. Camponovo, M. Huber, and M. Lechner, SES Working Paper 470, University of Fribourg, 2016.
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Conférences & Workshops
2022
Symposium zur ökonomischen Analyse der Unternehmung (Konstanz; keynote speaker), Verein für Socialpolitik (Basel; invited speaker), European Workshop on Econometrics and Health Economics (Fribourg), Econometric So- ciety European Meeting (Milano), Counterfactual Methods for Policy Impact Evaluation (Mannheim), Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (Fribourg), DAGStat (Hamburg; invited speaker)
2021
International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics (online), Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (online), Workshop on Machine Learning in Labor, Education, and Health Economics (online), Causal Data Science Meeting (online), European Association of Labor Economists (online), International Conference Economy & Business (Burgas), DSSV-ECDA (online), Australasian Meeting of the Econometric Society (online), Counterfactual Methods for Policy Impact Evaluation (online), Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (online)
2020
Causal Data Science Meeting (online), Econometric Society World Congress (online), EALE/SOLE/AASLE World Conference (online), Causal Machine Learning Workshop (St. Gallen)
2019
Austro-Swiss Region of the International Biometric Society (Lausanne), BFH Conference on Discrimination in the Labor Market (Bern), International Association for Applied Econometrics (Nikosia)
2018
Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (St. Gallen), Machine Learning in Economics and Econometrics (Munich), European Causal Inference Meeting (Florence), Challenges in Evaluating Regional and Urban Policy (Rome)
2017
European Association of Labor Economists (St. Gallen), BFH Conference on Discrimination in the Labor Market (Bern), Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (Lausanne)
2016
Rural Development Forum (Skopje), Workshop on Uncovering Causal Mechanisms (Munich), Economet- ric Society European Meeting (Geneva), Mediation Analysis based on Propensity Score Methods (Aca- demia Sinica, Taipei)
2015
European Economic Association (Mannheim), International Association for Applied Econometrics (Thessaloniki), Statistics Winter Conference of the University of Umea (Borgafjäll)
2014
European Association of Labor Economists (Ljubljana), International Association for Applied Econometrics (London), Austrian Economic Association (Vienna)
2013
Econometric Society European Meeting (Gothenburg), Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (Neuchâtel), Austrian Economic Association (Innsbruck), DAGStat (Freiburg i. Br.)
2012
SFB 884 conference on "Evaluation of Political Reforms" (Mannheim), 4th Joint IZA/IFAU Conference on Labor Market Policy Evaluation (Bonn), IAB conference "Field experiments in policy evaluation" (Nuremberg), European Association of Labor Economists (Bonn), Jena Symposium on Causality (Jena), Society of Labor Economists (Chicago), IQSS conference "Frontiers in the Analysis of Causal Mechanisms" (Harvard)
2011
IZA Conference on Labor Market Policy Evaluation (Harvard), Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (Lucerne),
2010
Econometric Society World Meeting (Shanghai), Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (Fribourg), European Ass. of Labour Economists/Society of Labor Economists (London), ZEW Workshop "Evaluation of Policies Fighting Social Exclusion" (Mannheim),
2009
Verein für Socialpolitik (Magdeburg), Econometric Society European Meeting (Barcelona), Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (Geneva), cemmap conference on quantile regression (London), Austrian Economic Association (Linz), Society of Labor Economists (Boston),
2008
COST A 23 Network (Paris), Inference and Tests in Econometrics (Marseille)
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Séminaires de recherche
2022
Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (June 30 2022), University of Tübingen (June 21 2022), Univer- sity of Aaarhus (June 8 2022), University of Surrey (online, May 4 2022), University of Zürich (online, March 15 2022)
2021
University of Glasgow (online, Nov 12 2021), University of Innsbruck (Oct 28 2021), University College London (online, Sep 30 2021), University of Technology Sydney (online, Sep 21 2021), University of Missouri (online, Apr 30 2021), CEBA St. Petersburg (online, Apr 23 2021), University of Rotterdam (online, Mar 25 2021), Ausschuss für Ökonometrie/Verein für Socialpolitik (online, Mar 4 2021)
2020
McGill University Montreal (online, Nov 20 2020), University of Amsterdam (online, Nov 13 2020), University Duisburg-Essen (online, Nov 9 2020) ,University of Bolzano/Bozen (online, Oct 29 2020), University of California Irvine (online, Oct 19 2020), Monash SoDa Labs Melbourne (online, Sep 08 2020), University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (online, Jul 09 2020), University Carlos III Madrid (online, May 25 2020), Agroscope Tänikon (Jan 22 2020)
2019
University of Gothenburg (Dec 4 2019), University of Neuchâtel (Oct 11 2019), University of Sydney (Aug 19 2019), University of Melbourne (Aug 15 2019), Monash University in Melbourne (Aug 14 2019), University of Sydney (Aug 8 2019), University of Hamburg (Jun 6 2019), Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (May 14 2019), University of Lisbon (May 6 2019),
2018
Central European University Budapest (Nov 12 2018), University of Innsbruck (Oct 18 2018), University of Munich (Oct 16 2018), EC Competence Centre on Microeconomic Evaluation in Ispra (Oct 1 2018), Frisch Centre Oslo (Mar 21 2018), ETH Zurich (Jan 25 2018)
2017
University of St. Gallen (Nov 20 2017), University of Constance (Jun 13 2017)
2016
University of Bonn (Dec 6 2016), European Institute in Florence (Oct 10 2016), Academia Sinica Taipei (Jun 7 2016), University of Xiamen (Jun 1 2016), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (May 30 2016), CREST Paris (May 19 2016), University of Mannheim (May 9 2016), WU Vienna (May 4 2016), University of Zurich (May 3 2016), IUMSP Lausanne (Mar 24 2016)
2015
FBK-IRVAPP Trento (Dec 10 2015), University of Innsbruck (Dec 9 2015), University of Nottingham (Nov 19 2015), University of Bristol (Nov 18 2015), Institute for Advanced Studies (May 7 2015), University of Luxembourg (April 15 2015), Tinbergen Institute Rotterdam (Jan 22 2015)
2014
University of Salzburg (Dec 9 2014), Tinbergen Institute Amsterdam (Nov 25 2014), University of Otago (Aug 11 2014), University of Technology in Sydney (Jul 30 2014), University of Sydney (Jul 31 2014), University of Melbourne (Jul 31 2014), University of Linz (Jun 04 2014), University of Aarhus (Apr 02 2014), University of Mainz (Mar 04 2014)
2013
University of Fribourg (Dec 10 2013), ETH Zurich (Dec 04 2013), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Nov 21 2013), University of Hohenheim (Apr 16 2013), University of Lausanne (Mar 12 2013), University of Bern (Jan 29 2013),
2012
Bergen Norwegian School of Economics (Nov 07 2012), University of Bern (Oct 09 2012), IFAU Uppsala (Aug 22 2012), University of Munich (Jul 10 2012), Boston College (Apr 27 2012), MIT (Mar 01 2012), Harvard Econ Dept. (Feb 06 2012),
2011
Brown University (Nov 10 2011), Harvard Econ Dept. (Sep 12 2011),
2010
University of Mannheim (Sep 01 2010), Graduate Institute of Geneva (May 05 2010), University of Linz (Apr 28 2010), University of Freiburg i. B. (Apr 21 2010),
2009
University of Innsbruck (May 13 2009)