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Health selection and the effect of smoking on mortality
Adda, Jérôme; Lechene, Valerie - 2011
We show that individuals who are in poorer health, independently from smoking, are more likely to start smoking and to smoke more cigarettes than those with better non-smoking health. We present evidence of selection, relying on extensive data on morbidity and mortality. We show that health...
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Health Selection and the Effect of Smoking on Mortality
Adda, Jérôme; Lechene, Valerie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We show that individuals who are in poorer health, independently from smoking, are more likely to start smoking and to smoke more cigarettes than those with better non-smoking health. We present evidence of selection, relying on extensive data on morbidity and mortality. We show that health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395437
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Identifying Program Benefits When Participation Is Misreported
Tommasi, Denni; Zhang, Lina - 2022
In cases of non-compliance with a prescribed treatment, estimates of causal effects typically rely on instrumental variables. However, when participation is also misreported, this approach can be severely biased. We provide an instrumental variable method that researchers can use to identify the...
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The Econometrics of Antidotal Variables
Das, Tirthatanmoy; Polachek, Solomon - 2022
Some interventions or population attributes negate the effects of a treatment. This paper shows that incorporating these, what we call antidotal variables (AV), into a causal treatment effects analysis can with one cross-sectional regression identify the true causal effect, in addition to...
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Where Do STEM Graduates Stem From? The Intergenerational Transmission of Comparative Skill Advantages
Hanushek, Eric A.; Jacobs, Babs; Schwerdt, Guido; Van … - 2023
The standard economic model of occupational choice following a basic Roy model emphasizes individual selection and comparative advantage, but the sources of comparative advantage are not well understood. We employ a unique combination of Dutch survey and registry data that links math and...
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Econometric Causality: The Central Role of Thought Experiments
Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo - 2023
This paper examines the econometric causal model and the interpretation of empirical evidence based on thought experiments that was developed by Ragnar Frisch and Trygve Haavelmo. We compare the econometric causal model with two currently popular causal frameworks: the Neyman-Rubin causal model...
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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
causality in dynamic panel data models incorporating unobserved heterogeneity. While Adams et al. tests reject the hypothesis of … 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 …
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Nonparametric tests for treatment effect heterogeneity
Crump, Richard K.; Hotz, V. Joseph; Imbens, Guido W.; … - 2006
there is any subpopulation for which a program or treatment has a nonzero average effect, or whether there is heterogeneity … the covariates is identical for all subpopulations, in other words, that there is no heterogeneity in average treatment …
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Recent developments in the econometrics of program evaluation
Imbens, Guido W.; Wooldridge, Jeffrey M. - 2008
Many empirical questions in economics and other social sciences depend on causal effects of programs or policies. In the last two decades much research has been done on the econometric and statistical analysis of the effects of such programs or treatments. This recent theoretical literature has...
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