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Oscar Mitnik

Oscar Mitnik

Assistant Professor, Economics

(305) 284-1626
Office: Jenkins Rm.
omitnik@miami.edu


Research Interests

  • Determinants and effects of governmental training and human capital policies.
  • Welfare policy and intergenerational transmission of welfare dependency.
  • Econometric methods for program evaluation.

Selected Publications

  • Crump, R., V. J. Hotz, G. W. Imbens, and Oscar A. Mitnik, 2006, "Nonparametric Tests for Treatment Effect Heterogeneity", Working Paper, UC Berkeley.
  • Mitnik , Oscar A., 2005, "How do Training Programs Assign Participants to Training? Characterizing the Optimal Assignment Rules of Government Agencies for Welfare-to-Work Programs in California", Working Paper, University of Miami.
  • Mitnik , Oscar A., 2005, "Differential Effects of Welfare-to-Work Programs: Identification with Unknown Treatment Status", Working Paper, University of Miami.
  • Crump, R., V. J. Hotz, G. W. Imbens, and Oscar A. Mitnik, 2005, "Moving the Goalposts: Addressing Limited Overlap in Estimation of Average Treatment Effects by Changing the Estimand", Working Paper, UC Berkeley.
  • Mitnik , Oscar A., 1999, "Education and Economic Growth of Provinces of Argentina", Revista de Análisis Económico, 14(2).

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Economics, UCLA, 2004
  • M.A., Economics, UCLA, 2001
  • M.A, Economics, Georgetown University (coursework at ILADES, Chile), 1997
  • B.A., Economics, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina), 1994

Specialties

  • Labor Economics
  • Applied Microeconomics
  • Applied Econometrics
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