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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
This paper uses data on both self-reported and true measures of individual Body Mass Index (BMI) to examine the nature of measurement error in self-reported BMI and to look at the consequences of using self-reported measures when estimating the effect of BMI on economic outcomes. In keeping with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289965
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The Consequences of Measurement Error when Estimating the Impact of BMI on Labour Market Outcomes
O'Neill, Donal; Sweetman, Olive - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper uses data on both self-reported and true measures of individual Body Mass Index (BMI) to examine the nature of measurement error in self-reported BMI and to look at the consequences of using self-reported measures when estimating the effect of BMI on economic outcomes. In keeping with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010785488
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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/10010293144
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Estimating Obesity Rates in the Presence of Measurement Error
O'Neill, Donal; Sweetman, Olive - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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/10011207667
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Breaking Ties: Regression Discontinuity Design Meets Market Design
Abdulkadiroglu, Atila; Angrist, Joshua; 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/10012005906
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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/10012141220
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Indebted and overweight: The link between weight and household debt
Averett, Susan L.; Smith, Julie K. - 2012
) is a potential cause of obesity. We find a strong positive correlation between debt and weight for women but this seems …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289881
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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/10014469640
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Quantiles of the Gain Distribution of an Early Childhood Intervention
Battistin, Erich; Lamarche, Carlos; Rettore, Enrico - 2020
We offer a new strategy to identify the distribution of treatment effects using data from the Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP), a relatively understudied early-childhood intervention for low birth-weight infants. We introduce a new policy parameter, QCD, which denotes quantiles of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207782
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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/10012006032