Research and Working Papers
of Alfonso Flores-Lagunes
Some
documents are available for download in Adobe Acrobat (.PDF) format.
Econometrics
and Applied Econometrics
- "Identification
and Estimation of Causal Mechanisms and Net Effects of a Treatment under
Unconfoundedness" (with Carlos A. Flores), June 2009.
- "Estimation
of Sample Selection Models with Spatial Dependence" (with K.
Schnier), February 2009. Revision
in progress.
- "Land Use Change: A Spatial
Multinomial Choice Analysis" (with C. Carrion-Flores and L. Guci). First draft coming soon.
- "Identifying
Technically Efficient Fishing Vessels: A Non-Empty, Minimal Subset
Approach" (with William Horrace and Kurt Schnier), Journal of Applied Econometrics,
vol. 22, Number 4 (June 2007), 729-745.
- "Finite
Sample Evidence of IV Estimators Under Weak Instruments", Journal of Applied Econometrics,
vol. 22, Number 3 (April 2007), 677-694.
Labor
Economics and Program Evaluation
- "Estimating
the Effects of Length of Exposure to a Training Program: The Case of Job
Corps " (with C.A. Flores, A. Gonzalez and T. Neumann), March
2009. Internet
Appendix (large file download).
- "Interpreting
Degree Effects in the Returns to Education" (with A. Light),
forthcoming, Journal of Human
Resources.
- "Learning
But Not Earning? The Impact of Job Corps Training for Hispanics"
(with A. Gonzalez and T. Neumann), forthcoming, Economic Inquiry. Internet
Appendix. Previous version
available as IZA working paper
No. 1638.
- "Measurement
Error in Schooling: Evidence from a Sample of Siblings" (with A.
Light), Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, Vol. 5: No.
1, Article 14.
Monetary
Policy
- "Has
Monetary Policy Become More Efficient? A Cross Country Analysis"
(with S.G. Cecchetti
and S. Krause),
The Economic Journal, 116 (April), 408-433.
Also available as NBER working paper W10973.
- "Assessing
the Sources of Changes in the Volatility of Real Growth" (with S.G. Cecchetti and S. Krause), in The
Changing Nature of the Business Cycle, C. Kent and D. Norman (eds),
Reserve Bank of Australia, 2005.
- "Has
Monetary Policy Become More Efficient in Mexico?" (with S.G. Cecchetti and S. Krause),
September 2000. A version in Spanish is available for download from
the Bank of Mexico research documents homepage by clicking here.
Other Topics
- "Lessons
from Quantile Panel Estimation of the Environmental Kuznets Curve"
(with C.A. Flores and D. Kapetanakis), August 2009.
For a complete list of
publications and working papers see my vita. Feel
free to e-mail me with requests for the
latest version of any of the papers.