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Courtemanche, Charles; Soneji, Samir; Tchernis, Rusty - 2013

We propose a Bayesian factor analysis model to rank the health of localities. Mortality and morbidity variables empirically contribute to the resulting rank, and population and spatial correlation are incorporated into a measure of uncertainty. We use county-level data from Texas and Wisconsin...

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Estimation of Generalized Entropy and Atkinson Inequality Indices from Complex Survey Data

Biewen, Martin; Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2003

Applying a method suggested by Woodruff (1971), we derive the sampling variances of Generalized Entropy and Atkinson inequality indices when estimated from complex survey data. It turns out that this method also greatly simplifies the calculations for the i.i.d. case when compared to previous...

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Estimating the technology of cognitive and noncognitive skill formation

Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James Joseph; Schennach, Susanne - 2010

This paper formulates and estimates multistage production functions for children's cognitive and noncognitive skills. Skills are determined by parental environments and investments at different stages of childhood. We estimate the elasticity of substitution between investments in one period and...

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Dynamic Treatment Assignment : The Consequences for Evaluations Using Observational Data

Fredriksson, Peter; Johansson, Per - 2004

This paper discusses the evaluation problem using observational data when the timing of treatment is an outcome of a stochastic process. We show that the duration framework in discrete time provides a fertile ground for effect evaluations. We suggest easy-to-use nonparametric survival function...

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Sequential Matching Estimation of Dynamic Causal Models

Lechner, Michael - 2004

This paper proposes sequential matching and inverse selection probability weighting to estimate dynamic causal effects. The sequential matching estimators extend simple, matching estimators based on propensity scores for static causal analysis that have been frequently applied in the evaluation...

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Regression discontinuity design with covariates

Frölich, Markus - 2007

) and Porter (2003), who examined identification and estimation without covariates, requiring assumptions that may often be …. In addition, accounting for covariates may also reduces variance. Finally, estimation of quantile treatment effects (QTE …

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New evidence on the finite sample properties of propensity score matching and reweighting estimators

Busso, Matias; DiNardo, John; McCrary, Justin - 2009

Currently available asymptotic results in the literature suggest that matching estimators have higher variance than reweighting estimators. The extant literature comparing the finite sample properties of matching to specific reweighting estimators, however, has concluded that reweighting...

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Identification and estimation of distributional impacts of interventions using changes in inequality measures

Firpo, Sergio - 2010

'Inequality Treatment Effects' (ITE). The estimation procedure involves a first non-parametric step in which the probability of …

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Simulation and Estimation of Hedonic Models

Heckman, James Joseph; Matzkin, Rosa Liliana; Nesheim, Lars - 2003

semiparametric estimation and identification of scalar additive hedonic models (Ekeland, Heckman, and Nesheim, 2002) and scalar … provide evidence on the performance of several estimation techniques. We also simulate examples of equilibria in nonadditive … models and provide evidence on the performance of the nonadditive estimation techniques developed in Heckman, Matzkin, and …

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Treatment evaluation in the case of interactions within markets

Ferracci, Marc; Jolivet, Grégory; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2010

within the market, averaged over the full population, we develop an identification and estimation method in two steps. The …

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