War and local collective action in Sierra Leone: A comment on the use of coefficient stability approaches

Felipe González and Edward Miguel

Department of Economics, Working Paper Series from Department of Economics, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley

Abstract: In a study of the effect of civil war exposure on local collective action outcomes in Sierra Leone, Bellows and Miguel (2009) employ a coefficient stability approach to assess the importance of omitted variable bias building on Altonji et al. (2005a). Here we clarify the econometric assumptions underlying Bellows and Miguel (2009), and extend their analysis using data on dependent variable reliability ratios and the method developed in Oster (2015).

Keywords: Economics; Applied Economics; Economic Theory; Peace; Justice and Strong Institutions; Selection; Unobservables; Civil war; Africa; Econometrics; Applied economics; Economic theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-08-01
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