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D-Index
42
Citations
31525
World Ranking
1989
National Ranking
1153

Overview

Jeffrey A. Smith is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of economics, econometrics, and finance, with a focus on labor market dynamics, wage inequality, and advanced causal inference techniques.

Their publication record includes a variety of peer-reviewed articles and papers appearing predominantly in the SSRN Electronic Journal. Other notable venues include The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Evaluation Review, The Journal of Human Resources, and Labour Economics.

Key recent papers authored by Jeffrey A. Smith include:

  • Treatment Effect Heterogeneity (2022, Evaluation Review)

Other papers listed alongside their name or relevant to their research area involve topics such as the effectiveness of federally funded job training, tests for selection using instrumental variables, and evaluations of reemployment programs during the Great Recession, though these were authored by collaborators or contemporaries.

Frequent coauthors contributing to or collaborating with Smith include:

  • Dan A. Black
  • Lars Skipper
  • Harry J. Holzer
  • Julia Lane
  • David Rosenblum

Smith's work engages with several subfields, including economics and econometrics, statistics and probability, demography, gender studies, and general health professions. These areas reflect an interdisciplinary approach integrating quantitative methods with social science topics.

Main topics addressed in their research comprise:

  • Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
  • Advanced causal inference techniques
  • Statistical methods and inference
  • Health systems, economic evaluations, quality of life
  • Gender, labor, and family dynamics
  • Retirement, disability, and employment
  • Employment and welfare studies

Overall, Jeffrey A. Smith's scholarly contributions reside at the intersection of econometric methodology and applied labor economics, with research outputs that explore the efficacy of labor programs and the heterogeneity of treatment effects in employment-related policies.

Best Publications

  • Characterizing Selection Bias Using Experimental Data

    James Heckman;Hidehiko Ichimura;Jeffrey Smith;Petra Todd

  • The Economics and Econometrics of Active Labor Market Programs

    James J. Heckman;Robert J. Lalonde;Jeffrey A. Smith

  • Does matching overcome LaLonde's critique of nonexperimental estimators?

    Jeffrey A. Smith;Petra E. Todd

  • Assessing the Case for Social Experiments

    James J. Heckman;Jeffrey A. Smith

  • Making the Most out of Programme Evaluations and Social Experiments: Accounting for Heterogeneity in Programme Impacts

    James J. Heckman;Jeffrey Smith;Nancy Clements

  • How robust is the evidence on the effects of college quality? Evidence from matching

    Dan A. Black;Jeffrey A. Smith;Jeffrey A. Smith

  • The Pre‐programme Earnings Dip and the Determinants of Participation in a Social Programme. Implications for Simple Programme Evaluation Strategies

    James J. Heckman;Jeffrey A. Smith

  • Estimating the Returns to College Quality with Multiple Proxies for Quality

    Dan A. Black;Jeffrey A. Smith

  • Is the Threat of Reemployment Services More Effective than the Services Themselves? Evidence from Random Assignment in the UI System *

    Dan A. Black;Jeffrey A. Smith;Mark C. Berger;Brett J. Noel

  • A Simulation Estimator for Dynamic Models of Discrete Choice

    V. Joseph Hotz;Robert A. Miller;Seth Sanders;Jeffrey Smith

  • Does Matching Overcome Lalonde's Critique of Nonexperimental Estimators?

    Jeffrey A. Smith;Jeffrey A. Smith;Petra Todd;Petra Todd;Petra Todd

  • Reconciling Conflicting Evidence on the Performance of Propensity-Score Matching Methods

    Jeffrey A. Smith;Petra E. Todd

  • The Performance of Performance Standards

    James Joseph Heckman;Carolyn J. Heinrich;Jeffrey A. Smith

  • Social Distance in the United States: Sex, Race, Religion, Age, and Education Homophily among Confidants, 1985 to 2004

    Jeffrey A. Smith;Miller McPherson;Lynn Smith-Lovin

  • The Determinants of Participation in a Social Program: Evidence from a Prototypical Job Training Program

    James Joseph Heckman;Jeffrey A. Smith

  • Network Ecology and Adolescent Social Structure

    Daniel A. McFarland;James Moody;James Moody;David Diehl;Jeffrey A. Smith

  • Equilibrium Policy Experiments and the Evaluation of Social Programs

    Jeremy Lise;Shannon Seitz;Jeffrey Smith

  • A critical survey of empirical methods for evaluating active labor market policies

    Jeffrey A Smith

  • Substitution and Dropout Bias in Social Experiments: A Study of an Influential Social Experiment

    James Heckman;Neil Hohmann;Jeffrey Smith;Michael Khoo

  • Heterogeneous Impacts in PROGRESA

    Habiba Djebbari;Jeffrey A. Smith

  • Sources of selection bias in evaluating social programs: An interpretation of conventional measures and evidence on the effectiveness of matching as a program evaluation method

    James J. Heckman;Hidehiko Ichimura;Jeffrey Smith;Petra Todd

  • Assessing the Performance of Performance Standards in Public Bureaucracies

    James Heckman;Carolyn Heinrich;Jeffrey Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

James J. Heckman
James J. Heckman University of Chicago
Dan A. Black
Dan A. Black University of Chicago
Carolyn J. Heinrich
Carolyn J. Heinrich Vanderbilt University
Petra E. Todd
Petra E. Todd University of Pennsylvania
Christopher Taber
Christopher Taber University of Wisconsin–Madison
Peter Dolton
Peter Dolton University of Sussex
Harry J. Holzer
Harry J. Holzer Georgetown University
Michael Lechner
Michael Lechner University of St. Gallen
Mark C. Berger
Mark C. Berger University of Kentucky
Julia Lane
Julia Lane New York University

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