Research
My research interests are in causal inference, nonparametric and high-dimensional inference, partial identification, and econometric methods for noisy and rich data settings.
Research Papers
Econometrics
Nested Nonparametric Instrumental Variable Regression Isaac Meza and Rahul Singh. Working paper.
Canonical Correlation Regression with Noisy Data Isaac Meza and Rahul Singh. Working paper.
Residual Balancing for Non-Linear Outcome Models in High Dimensions Isaac Meza. Working paper.
Experimental Design and Applied Microeconomics
- Structured Payment in Pawnshop Borrowing: Mandates vs. Choice Francis DiTraglia, Craig McIntosh, Isaac Meza, Enrique Seira Bejarano, and Joyce Sadka. R&R, Review of Economic Studies.
Earlier Research and Related Projects
Inference in Synthetic Control Methods Using the Robust Wasserstein Profile Function Isaac Meza. Research note.
Genericity of Spaces with the Extended García-Falset Coefficient: (R(t,X)<1+t) for Some (t>0) Isaac Meza. Research note.
Bandits and Online Optimization in Infinite Spaces: UMD Spaces are UMD-Learnable Isaac Meza. Research note.
The Cameron-Martin Theorem Isaac Meza. Technical note.
Reports and Other Writing
- Did Mexico’s Seguro Popular Universal Health Coverage Programme Really Reduce Formal Jobs? Enrique Seira Bejarano, Eduardo González-Pier, Eduardo Alcaraz, and Isaac Meza. WIEGO Working Paper No. 46.
Thesis
Confidence Region via the Robust Wasserstein Profile Function: An Application to Synthetic Control Methods Bachelor Thesis in Economics. First Place, Research Award ExITAM XXV.
Geometry of Banach Spaces and Fixed Point Theory Bachelor Thesis in Mathematics, in Spanish. Special Mention, Research Award ExITAM XXV.
Software
nnpiv Python implementation of nested nonparametric instrumental variables. This package implements methods for estimating nonparametrically nested moment conditions. Related paper: Meza and Singh.
tot_tut Stata implementation for estimation of treatment-on-the-treated and treatment-on-the-untreated effects using the design in “Structured Payment in Pawnshop Borrowing: Mandates vs. Choice” by DiTraglia, McIntosh, Meza, Seira, and Sadka.
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- fan_park Stata implementation of sharp bounds on the distribution of treatment effects of a binary treatment developed in Fan and Park (2009).
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