Refereed Published Papers

White, H. and K. Chalak (2009), "Settable Systems: An Extension of Pearl's Causal Model with Optimization, Equilibrium, and Learning" Journal of Machine learning Research, 10 (Aug), 1759-1799. (Link)

White, H. and K. Chalak (2010), "Testing a Conditional Form of Exogeneity," Economics Letters, 109, 88-90. (Link)

Chalak, K. and H. White (2011), "An Extended Class of Instrumental Variables for the Estimation of Causal Effects," Canadian Journal of Economics, 44, 1-51. (Link)

White, H., K. Chalak, and X. Lu (2011), "Linking Granger Causality and the Pearl Causal Model with Settable Systems," Journal of Machine Learning Research Workshop and Conference Proceedings, 12, 1-29. (Link)

Schennach, S. M., H. White, and K. Chalak (2012), "Local Indirect Least Squares and Average Marginal Effects in Nonseparable Structural Systems," Journal of Econometrics, 166, 282-302. (Paper Link; Supplementary Material PDF)

Chalak, K. and H. White (2012), "Causality, Conditional Independence, and Graphical Separation in Settable Systems," Neural Computation, 24, 1611-1668. (Link)

Chalak, K. (2012), "Identification without Exogeneity under Equiconfounding in Linear Recursive Structural Systems," in X. Chen and N. Swanson (eds.), Causality, Prediction, and Specification Analysis: Recent Advances and Future Directions - Essays in Honor of Halbert L. White, Jr., Springer, 27-55. (PDF) (Link)

White, H. and K. Chalak (2013), "Identification and Identification Failure for Treatment Effects using Structural Systems," Econometric Reviews, 32, 273-317. (Link)

White, H., H. Xu, and K. Chalak (2014), "Causal Discourse in a Game of Incomplete Information," Journal of Econometrics, 182, 45-58. (Link)

Chalak, K. (2017), "Instrumental Variables Methods with Heterogeneity and Mismeasured Instruments," Econometric Theory, 33, 69-104. (Link)

Chalak, K. (2019), "Identification of Average Effects under Magnitude and Sign Restrictions on Confounding," Quantitative Economics, 10, 1619-1657. (Paper Link; Supplementary Material PDF)

Chalak, K. (2019), "A Note on the Robustness of Quantile Treatment Effect Estimands," Economics Letters, 185, Article 108703. (Link)

Chalak, K. and D. Kim (2020), "Measurement Error in Multiple Equations: Tobin's q and Corporate Investment, Saving, and Debt," Journal of Econometrics, 214, 413-432. (Paper Link; Supplementary Material PDF)

Chalak, K. and D. Kim (2021), "Measurement Error without the Proxy Exclusion Restriction," Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 39, 200-216. (Paper Link; Supplementary Material PDF)

Chalak, K., D. Kim, M. Miller, and J. Pepper (2022), ''Reexamining the Evidence on Gun Ownership and Homicide Using Proxy Measures of Ownership,'' Journal of Public Economics, 208, Article 104621. (PDF)

Chalak, K. (2024), ''Nonparametric Gini-Frisch Bounds,'' Journal of Econometrics, 238, 105560. (Link)

Published Comments and Reviews

Chalak, K. (2010), ''Book Review: Statistical Models and Causal Inference: A Dialogue with the Social Sciences, by David A. Freedman,'' Journal of Economic Literature, 48, 1033-1035. (Link)

Selected Working Papers and Work in Progress

Chalak, K. and D. Kim (2022a), “Using Higher Order Moments to Estimate Equations with Differential Measurement Error.” (PDF)

Chalak, K. and D. Kim (2022b), “Estimating the Feedback among Credit Rating Agencies and its Impact on the Municipal Bond Market.” (PDF)

White, H., M. Al-Sadoon, and K. Chalak (2011), ''Rational Expectations and Causality: A Settable Systems View.''

Chalak, K. and H. White (2007), ''Identification with Conditioning Instruments in Causal Systems,'' (PDF)

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