Estimation and Inference for Peer Effects under Conditional Random Assignment
条件随机分组下同伴效应的估计与推断
Empirical studies of peer effects often exploit conditional random assignment to peer groups within urns. We develop a GMM framework for estimation and inference in this setting. The framework separately identifies endogenous and contextual peer effects and nests tests of random peer-group assignment as a special case. It permits unknown heteroskedasticity and corrects finite-urn bias in variance estimation. Its asymptotic theory allows the number of peer groups to grow…