No. 86-1, February 2024

Index

• A Brief History of General‐to‐specific Modelling*
• Are Economics Conferences Gender‐Neutral? Evidence from Ireland*
• Foetal Exposure to Air Pollution and Students' Cognitive Performance: Evidence from Agricultural Fires in Brazil*
• Identifying Politically Connected Firms: A Machine Learning Approach*
• Issue Information
• Non‐parametric Estimator for Conditional Mode with Parametric Features*
• Partial Identification of Marginal Treatment Effects with Discrete Instruments and Misreported Treatment*
• Sequencing the COVID‐19 Recession in the USA: What Were the Macroeconomic Drivers?
• Smooth and Abrupt Dynamics in Financial Volatility: The MS‐MEM‐MIDAS*