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Determining the impact of federal antidiscrimination policy on the economic status of blacks : a study of South Carolina

Heckman, James J. - In: The American economic review 79 (1989) 1, pp. 138-177

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New Methods for Estimating Labor Supply Functions : A Survey

Heckman, James J. - 1982

This paper surveys new methods for estimatifg labor supply functions. A unified framework of analysis is presented. All recent models of labor supply are special cases of a general index function model developed for the analysis o dummy endogenous variables

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Models for the Analysis of Labor Force Dynamics

Flinn, Christopher J. - 1982

This paper presents new econometric methods for the empirical analysis of individual labor market histories. The techniques developed here extend previous work on continuous time models in four ways: (1) A structural economic interpretation of these models is presented. (2) Time varying...

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Determining the Impact of Federal Antidiscrimination Policy on the Economic Status of Blacks : A Study of South Carolina

Heckman, James J. - 1989

This paper assesses the contribution of federal antidiscrimination policy to the dramatic improvement of black economic status in manufacturing that occurred in South Carolina in the mid 1960's. Using a unique data source on wages and employment by race and sex in South Carolina we evaluate...

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A Note on Adapting Propensity Score Matching and Selection Models to Choice Based Samples

Heckman, James J. - 2009

The probability of selection into treatment plays an important role in matching and selection models. However, this … note establishes that the selection and matching procedures can be implemented using propensity scores fit on choice …

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Using Matching, Instrumental Variables and Control Functions to Estimate Economic Choice Models

Heckman, James J. - 2003

selection) in matching, instrumental variable and control functions methods. (2) It contrasts the roles of exclusion … restrictions in matching and selection models. (3) It characterizes the sensitivity of matching to the choice of conditioning …. (4) It demonstrates the problem of choosing the conditioning variables in matching and the failure of conventional model …

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