Publications:

(All versions of published papers posted here are very slightly older than the published versions)

·               Durlauf. Navarro and Rivers (2008) “On the Interpretation of Aggregate Crime Regressions”, in R. Rosenfeld and A. S. Goldberger (eds.), Understanding Crime Trends, The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C.

·               Navarro (2008) “Control Function”, in S.N. Durlauf and L. E. Blume (eds.), The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd ed., 2008, London: Palgrave Macmillan Press. .

·               Cunha, Heckman and Navarro (2007) "The Identification and Economic Content of Ordered Choice Models with Stochastic Cutoffs", International Economic Review, 48(4) .

·               Heckman and Navarro (2007) "Dynamic Discrete Choice and Dynamic Treatment Effects", Journal of Econometrics, vol. 136(2) .

·               Basu, Heckman, Navarro and Urzua (2007) "Use of Instrumental Variables in the Presence of Heterogeneity and Self-selection: an Application in Breast Cancer Patients",  Health Economics, vol. 16(11) .   

·               Cunha, Heckman and Navarro (2005), "Separating uncertainty from heterogeneity in life cycle earnings", Oxford Economic Papers, vol. 57(2) .

·               Cunha, Heckman and Navarro (2005), "Counterfactual Analysis of Inequality and Social Mobility", in S. L. Morgan, D. Grusky, and G. S. Fields (eds.). Mobility and Inequality: Frontiers of Research in Sociology and Economics. Stanford: Stanford University Press .

·               Heckman and Navarro (2004), "Using Matching, Instrumental Variables and Control Functions to Estimate Economic Choice Models", The Review of Economics and Statistics, 86 .

 

Working Papers and Work in Progress:

·               “Understanding Aggregate Crime Regressions”, working paper revised and resubmitted to the Journal of Econometrics (with Steven Durlauf and David Rivers).

·               “Using Observed Choices to Infer Agent's Information: Reconsidering the Importance of Borrowing Constraints, Uncertainty and Preferences in College Attendance”, working paper. New version coming soon. (Web Appendix)

·               “Identifying Production Functions Using Restrictions from Economic Theory”, working paper (with Amit Gandhi and David Rivers). Posted version is dated, newer cooler version coming soon.

·                “A framework for estimating structural dynamic models with aggregate shocks with an application to mortgage default in Colombia”, working paper (with Juan Esteban Carranza)

·                “An Econometric Framework for the Analysis of Dynamic Treatment Effects: the Effect of Grade Retention on Tests Scores”, working paper (with Jane Cooley and Yuya Takahashi). New version coming soon.

·               “Who Should Fight: Selection and Military Manpower”, working paper (with Javier Birchenall and Benjamin Hansen). New version coming some day.

·               “A semiparametric test of agent's information sets for games of incomplete information”, working paper (with Yuya Takahashi). First version coming soon.