Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Identifying the Effects of a Program Offer with an Application to Head
  Start   I develop tools to learn about the average effects of providing an offer to
participate in a program given data from an experiment that randomizes offers.
I allow for the complication that individuals may not comply with their
assigned status in the sense that those who are not provided an offer may
receive one from outside the experiment, and that the data may provide only
partial information on the receipt of an offer across individuals. To do so, I
propose a new nonparametric selection model with unobserved choice sets that
provides a conceptual framework to define a range of parameters evaluating the
effects of an offer, exploit the partial information available on offer
receipt, and also consider an array of identifying assumptions. I illustrate
how a computational procedure can be used to sharply learn about the parameters
under the various assumptions. Using these tools, I analyze the effects of a
policy that provides an offer to participate in the Head Start preschool
program given data from the Head Start Impact Study. I find that such a policy
affects a large number of children who take up the offer, and that they
subsequently have positive effects on test scores. These effects primarily
arise from children who do not have any preschool as an outside option.
Performing a cost-benefit analysis, I find that the earning benefits associated
with the test score gains can outweigh the net costs associated with the take
up of the offer.

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The categories of this paper are: solv-int
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The categories of this paper are: math-ph
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The categories of this paper are: q-alg
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The categories of this paper are: plasm-ph
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The categories of this paper are: dg-ga
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The categories of this paper are: cs
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The categories of this paper are: stat
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The categories of this paper are: quant-ph
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The categories of this paper are: mtrl-th
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The categories of this paper are: atom-ph
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The categories of this paper are: cond-mat
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The categories of this paper are: supr-con
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The categories of this paper are: hep-th
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The categories of this paper are: hep-ph