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Oscar Mitnik

Oscar Mitnik

Assistant Professor, Economics

(305) 284-1626
Jenkins 523E
omitnik@miami.edu


Research Interests

  • Labor Economics
  • Applied Econometrics
  • Applied Microeconomics

Selected Publications

“Nonparametric Tests for Treatment Effect Heterogeneity” (with Richard Crump, V. Joseph Hotz and Guido Imbens), The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. XC, Number 3, 389-405, August 2008.

“Dealing with Limited Overlap in Estimation of Average Treatment Effects” (with Richard Crump, V. Joseph Hotz and Guido Imbens), Biometrika, Vol. 96, Number 1, 187-199, March 2009.

“How do Training Programs Assign Participants to Training? Characterizing the Optimal Assignment Rules of Government Agencies for Welfare-to-Work Programs in California”, December 2009. Revision requested by Journal of Human Resources.

“Intergenerational transmission of welfare dependency: The effects of length of exposure”, June 2010.

"Comparing Treatments across Labor Markets: An Assessment of Nonexperimental Multiple-Treatment Strategies" (with Carlos Flores), August 2011. Resubmitted (2nd round) to Review of Economics and Statistics.

“CEO Power and Compensation in Financially Distressed Firms” (with Qiang Kang), September 2011. Under submission.

“The Effects of Female Labor Force Participation on Obesity” (with Pedro Gomis-Porqueras, Adrian Peralta-Alva, and Maximilian Schmeiser), October 2011. Under submission.


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
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