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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282346
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261660
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262057
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267658
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268788
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Mental health and labour market participation: Evidence from IV panel data models
Frijters, Paul; Johnston, David W.; Shields, Michael A. - 2010
effectively control for the two-way causality between work and health and the existence of unobserved individual characteristics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269750
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Causal effects of monetary shocks: semiparametric conditional independence tests with a multinomial propensity score
Angrist, Joshua D.; Kuersteiner, Guido M. - 2008
effects is based on a selection-on-observables assumption, non-causality amounts to the conditional independence of outcomes … a time series setting. This leads to a generalized definition of Sims (1980) causality. A technical contribution is the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270625
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Econometric causality
Heckman, James Joseph - 2008
parameters are defined and identified to address specific policy problems. Economists embrace a scientific approach to causality …. Anticipated and realized subjective and objective outcomes are distinguished. Models for simultaneous causality are developed. The … paper contrasts the Neyman-Rubin model of causality with the econometric approach. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274247
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Neighbourhood effects research at a crossroads: Ten challenges for future research
van Ham, Maarten; Manley, David - 2012
Neighbourhood effects research is at a crossroads since current theoretical and empirical approaches do not seem to be moving the debate forward. In this paper, we present a set of ten challenges as a basis for a new research agenda which will give new direction to the neighbourhood effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287697