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The Relationship between Health and Schooling: What's New?

Grossman, Michael - 2015

much less consensus as to whether this correlation reflects causality from more schooling to better health. The … relationship may be traced in part to reverse causality and may also reflect "omitted third variables" that cause health and …

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Causal Analysis after Haavelmo

Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo - 2013

Haavelmo's seminal 1943 paper is the first rigorous treatment of causality. In it, he distinguished the definition of … Acyclic Graphs (DAG) used in one influential recent approach to causality (Pearl, 2000) and in the related literature on … Pearl in securing identification of economic models. We extend our framework to consider models for simultaneous causality …

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Education and Cancer Risk

Leuven, Edwin; Plug, Erik; Rønning, Marte - 2014

There exists a strong educational gradient in cancer risk, which has been documented in a wide range of populations. Yet relatively little is known about the extent to which education is causally linked to cancer incidence and mortality. This paper exploits a large social experiment where an...

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Matching Methods in Practice: Three Examples

Imbens, Guido W. - 2014

There is a large theoretical literature on methods for estimating causal effects under unconfoundedness, exogeneity, or selection-on-observables type assumptions using matching or propensity score methods. Much of this literature is highly technical and has not made inroads into empirical...

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Challenges in Research on Preferences and Personality Traits: Measurement, Stability, and Inference

Golsteyn, Bart H.H.; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2017

personality traits, challenges regarding the stability of preferences and traits, and challenges when inferring causality …

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The Causal Effect of Trust

Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Huffman, David B.; … - 2018

Trust affects almost all human relationships – in families, organizations, markets and politics. However, identifying the conditions under which trust, defined as people's beliefs in the trustworthiness of others, has a causal effect on the efficiency of human interactions has proven to be...

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Health and the Wage Rate: Cause, Effect, Both, or Neither? New Evidence on an Old Question

Dench, Daniel; Grossman, Michael - 2018

We investigate two-way causality between health and the hourly wage by employing insights from the human capital and …

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Smartphone Use and Academic Performance: Correlation or Causal Relationship?

Baert, Stijn; Vujic, Suncica; Amez, Simon; Claeskens, Matteo - 2018

After a decade of correlational research, this study is the first to measure the causal impact of (general) smartphone use on educational performance. To this end, we merge survey data on general smartphone use, exogenous predictors of this use, and other drivers of academic success with the...

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The effect of disability on labour market outcomes in Germany : evidence from matching

Lechner, Michael; Vazquez-Alvarez, Rosalia - 2003

If labour market policies aimed at people with disabilities are effective, we should observe no significant difference in labour market outcomes between disable and non-disable individuals. This paper examines the impact of disability status on labour market outcomes using matching methods...

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Health and Wealth of Elderly Couples : Causality Tests Using Dynamic Panel Data Models

Michaud, Pierre-Carl; van Soest, Arthur - 2004

analyzes causality from health to wealth (health causation) and from wealth to health (wealth or social causation) for elderly … recently developed strategy using Granger causality tests of Adams et al. (2003, Journal of Econometrics) with tests for … causality in dynamic panel data models incorporating unobserved heterogeneity. While Adams et al. tests reject the hypothesis of …

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