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Because impact evaluation is an important tool that guides public policy decisions and because applying impact evaluation is a rigorous process, we must generate examples of how impact evaluation methodologies apply to the Mexican context. To this end, we have used nonexperimental methodologies...
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The main purpose of this work is to discuss Stata’s capability to implement customized likelihood functions compared with Gauss’s. I compare these two high-level programming languages with built-in function libraries and graphic routines. Overall, Stata’s features seem best suited for...
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In this talk, I will discuss the main methodological features of the bivariate dynamic probit model for panel data. I will present an example using simulated data, giving special emphasis to the initial conditions problem in dynamic models and the difference between true and spurious state...
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Some surveys collect data of individuals who are nested within hierarchical organizations or countries. These data are useful, for instance, for ranking countries according to a major outcome adjusted for covariates. Reporting only means produces rankings that are biased. So it is necessary to...
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In this presentation, I aim to show how to produce informative descriptive statistics from a longitudinal survey using the Mexican Family Life Survey (MXFLS) as an example. I will introduce the audience to the MXFLS and discuss its main innovative features, such as the sample design, the...
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Stata 11 has the new command gmm for estimating parameters by generalized method of moments (GMM). gmm can estimate the parameters of linear and nonlinear models for cross-sectional, panel, and time-series data. In this presentation, I provide an introduction to GMM and to the gmm command
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Using the approach proposed in 2002 by the Technical Committee for the Measurement of Poverty (TCMP), CONEVAL produced a set of state-level poverty measures. The methodology consists of comparing a food basket that contains the minimum consumption requirements with a household’s average...
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In this talk, I will cover a number of topics related to the estimation of panel models for count data, with empirical illustrations estimated using Stata. For the theoretical background, I will rely on my book with Colin Cameron, Microeconometrics: Methods and Applications (2005, Cambridge...
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In this presentation, we illustrate an application of a relatively new selection-bias correction methodology based on the multinomial logit model using the selmlog Stata command (Bourguignon, Fournier, and Gurgand, 2007, Journal of Economic Surveys 21: 174–205). selmlog allows for getting both...
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In biology, the study of the life cycle of plants and animals helps one to understand the phenology of a particular species, which is useful in pest management or in biological conservation. Spiders are one of the most widespread animals on earth. They eat a huge variety of other animals and are...
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