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The consequences of measurement error when estimating the impact of BMI on labour market outcomes
O'Neill, Donal; Sweetman, Olive B. - 2012
. -- obesity ; non-classical measurement error ; auxiliary data ; instrumental variables …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009665420
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Estimating obesity rates in the presence of measurement error
O'Neill, Donal; Sweetman, Olive B. - 2013
Reliable measures of obesity are essential in order to develop effective policies to tackle the costs of obesity. In … this paper we examine what, if anything, we can learn about obesity rates using self-reported BMI once we allow for … data to derive upper and lower bounds for the population obesity rate for ten European countries. For men it is possible to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009721319
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Inference with arbitrary clustering
Colella, Fabrizio; Lalive, Rafael; Sakalli, Seyhun Orcan; … - 2019
Analyses of spatial or network data are now very common. Nevertheless, statistical inference is challenging since unobserved heterogeneity can be correlated across neighboring observational units. We develop an estimator for the variance-covariance matrix (VCV) of OLS and 2SLS that allows for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012102134
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Breaking ties : regression discontinuity design meets market design
Abdulkadiroğlu, Atila; Angrist, Joshua D.; Narita, Yusuke - 2019
Centralized school assignment algorithms must distinguish between applicants with the same preferences and priorities. This is done with randomly assigned lottery numbers, nonlottery tie-breakers like test scores, or both. The New York City public high school match illustrates the latter, using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011989205
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Embrace the noise : it is OK to ignore measurement error in a covariate, sometimes
Dong, Hao; Millimet, Daniel L. - 2023
In linear regression models, measurement error in a covariate causes Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) to be biased and inconsistent. Instrumental Variables (IV) is a common solution. While IV is also biased, it is consistent. Here, we undertake an asymptotic comparison of OLS and IV in the case...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014388449
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The effect of education on health : evidence from the 1997 compulsory schooling reform in Turkey
Baltagi, Badi H.; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso; Karatas, Haci M. - 2019
attainment to investigate the impact of education on body mass index, obesity, smoking behavior, and self-rated health, as well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005783
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The effect of higher education on women's obesity and smoking : evidence from college openings in Turkey
Baltagi, Badi H.; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso; Karatas, Haci M. - 2022
This paper analyzes the relationship between higher education and body weight and smoking behavior among women in Turkey. We exploit the largely exogenous and substantial increase in the openings of universities throughout Turkey. Based on the spatial and temporal variability of university...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013198942
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Correcting for misclassied binary regressors using instrumental variables
Haider, Steven; Stephens, Melvin - 2020
Estimators that exploit an instrumental variable to correct for misclassification in a binary regressor typically assume that the misclassification rates are invariant across all values of the instrument. We show that this assumption is invalid in routine empirical settings. We derive a new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012266298
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Obesity and economic performance of young workers in Italy
Bruno, Giovanni; Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Dessy, Orietta - 2015
workers with the purpose of analysing the relationship between measures of obesity and measures of economic performance. Among … considered in the literature on the effects of obesity. Interestingly enough, we find that BMI does not discriminate young …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528768
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Parental beliefs about returns to child health investments
Biroli, Pietro; Boneva, Teodora; Raja, Akash; Rauh, … - 2018
Childhood obesity has adverse health and productivity consequences and poses negative externalities to health services … health outcomes and the intergenerational transmission of obesity. …
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