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I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics at Iowa State University. My current research interests include Theoretical and Applied Econometrics, and Labor Economics.

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I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics at Iowa State University. My current research interests include Theoretical and Applied Econometrics, and Labor Economics.

Present	Assistant Professor, Iowa State University ‐ Department of Economics
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Economics, Econometrics, and Labor Economics

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Peer-Reviewed Articles (4)

Revisiting the Effects of Unemployment Insurance Extensions on Unemployment: A ...

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (2020)

Steven Dieterle, Otávio Bartalotti and Quentin Brummet

This study documents two potential biases in recent analyses of UI benefit extensions using boundary-based identification: bias from using county-level ...

Wild bootstrap for fuzzy regression discontinuity designs: obtaining robust bias-corrected ...

The Econometrics Journal (2020)

Yang He and Otávio Bartalotti

This paper develops a novel wild bootstrap procedure to construct robust bias-corrected valid confidence intervals for fuzzy regression discontinuity designs, ...

A Correction for Regression Discontinuity Designs With Group-Specific Mismeasurement of ...

Journal of Business & Economic Statistics (2020)

Otávio Bartalotti, Quentin Brummet and Steven Dieterle

When the running variable in a regression discontinuity (RD) design is measured with error, identification of the local average treatment ...

Regression Discontinuity and Heteroskedasticity Robust Standard Errors: Evidence from a ...

Journal of Econometric Methods (2018)

Otávio Bartalotti

In regression discontinuity designs (RD), for a given bandwidth, researchers can estimate standard errors based on different variance formulas obtained ...

Contribution to Book

Bootstrap Confidence Intervals for Sharp Regression Discontinuity Designs

Regression Discontinuity Designs: Theory and Applications (2017)

Otávio Bartalotti, Gray Calhoun and Yang He

This chapter develops a novel bootstrap procedure to obtain robust bias-corrected confidence intervals in regression discontinuity (RD) designs. The procedure ...

Contribution to Book

Regression Discontinuity Designs with Clustered Data

Regression Discontinuity Designs: Theory and Applications (2017)

Otávio Bartalotti and Quentin Brummet

Regression discontinuity designs have become popular in empirical studies due to their attractive properties for estimating causal effects under transparent ...

Testing Identifying Assumptions in Bivariate Probit Models

Economics Working Papers (2021)

Santiago Acerenza, Otávio Bartalotti and Desire Kedagni

This paper focuses on the bivariate probit model's identifyingassumptions: joint normality of errors, instrument exogeneity, and relevance conditions. First, we ...

Identifying Marginal Treatment Effects in the Presence of Sample Selection

Economics Working Papers (2019)

Otávio Bartalotti, Desire Kedagni and Vitor Possebom

This article presents identification results for the marginal treatment effect (MTE) when there is sample selection. We show that the ...

A Correction for Regression Discontinuity Designs with Group-Specific Mismeasurement of ...

Economics Working Papers (2019)

Otávio Bartalotti, Quentin Brummet and Steven Dieterle

When the running variable in a regression discontinuity (RD) design is measured with error, identification of the local average treatment ...

Wild bootstrap for fuzzy regression discontinuity designs: obtaining robust bias-corrected ...

Economics Working Papers (2019)

Yang He and Otávio Bartalotti

This paper develops a novel wild bootstrap procedure to construct robust bias- corrected valid confidence intervals (CIs) for fuzzy regression ...

Revisiting the Effects of Unemployment Insurance Extensions on Unemployment: A ...

Economics Working Papers (2018)

Steven Dieterle, Otávio C. Bartalotti and Quentin O. Brummet

We reassess the literature using county border pair identification strategies to examine the effects of UI benefit duration on labor ...

Regression Discontinuity Designs with Clustered Data: Variance and Bandwidth Choice

Economics Working Papers (2016)

Otávio C. Bartalotti and Quentin O. Brummet

Regression Discontinuity designs have become popular in empirical studies due to their attractive properties for estimating causal effects under transparent ...

The Effect of Low-Income Housing on Neighborhood Mobility: Evidence from ...

Economics Working Papers (2016)

Quentin O. Brummet and Otávio C. Bartalotti

While subsidized low-income housing construction provides affordable living conditions for poor households, many observers worry that building low-income housing in ...

Bootstrap Confidence Intervals for Sharp Regression Discontinuity Designs with the ...

Economics Working Papers (2016)

Otávio C. Bartalotti, Gray Calhoun and Yang He

This paper develops a novel bootstrap procedure to obtain robust bias-corrected confidence intervals in regression discontinuity (RD) designs using the ...

Theory and practice of inference in regression discontinuity: a fixed-bandwidth ...

Economics Working Papers (2002–2016) (2014)

Otávio Bartalotti

In regression discontinuity design (RD), researchers use bandwidths around the discontinuity. For agiven bandwidth, one can estimate asymptotic variance based ...

GMM Efficiency and IPW Estimation for Nonsmooth Functions

Tulane University Economics Working Papers (2013)

Otávio Bartalotti

In a GMM setting this paper analyzes the problem in which we have two sets of moment conditions,where two sets ...