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On the observational implications of taste-based discrimination in racial profiling

Brock, William A.; Cooley, Jane; Durlauf, Steven N.; … - In: Journal of Econometrics 166 (2012) 1, pp. 66-78

This paper contributes to a growing literature that attempts to determine whether disparities in police stops and searches of potential criminals of different races stem from taste-based discrimination. The key challenge in making this evaluation is that police officers have more information...

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multi-valued treatment effects

Cattaneo, Matias D. - Palgrave Macmillan

The term multi-valued treatment effects refers to a collection of population parameters capturing the impact of a treatment variable on an outcome variable when the treatment takes multiple values. For example, in labour training programmes participants receive different hours of training or in...

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social networks: econometrics

Bramoullé, Yann; Fortin, Bernard - Palgrave Macmillan

literature on both aspects of social networks, and discusses the identification and estimation issues they raise. …

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social networks and health outcomes

Fletcher, Jason M. - Palgrave Macmillan

Although economists have sought to link the health behaviours or outcomes of socially connected individuals for several decades, there has been a recent resurgence in interest and expansion in empirical techniques. Studies that attempt to estimate social network effects in health decisions face...

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Identification of Social Interactions

Blume, Lawrence E.; Brock, William A.; Durlauf, Steven N.; … - Department of Economics, Tufts University - 2010

of the identification of social interactions. We consider linear and discrete choice models as well as social network … identification literature, we indicate areas where additional research is especially needed and suggest some directions that appear …

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Identification of Social Interactions

Blume, Lawrence E.; Brock, William A.; Durlauf, Steven N.; … - Department of Economics and Finance Research and … - 2010

of the identification of social interactions. We consider linear and discrete choice models as well as social networks … identification literature, we indicate areas where additional research is especially needed and suggest some directions that appear …

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Linear Social Interactions Models

Blume, Lawrence E.; Brock, William A.; Durlauf, Steven N.; … - Department of Economics and Finance Research and … - 2013

This paper provides a systematic analysis of identification in linear social interactions models. This is both a … of those models. We consider identification of both endogenous (peer) and contextual social effects under alternative … individual-level and aggregated data. Finally, we discuss potential ramifications for identification of endogenous group …

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Sims, Christopher Albert (born 1942)

Boumans, Marcel - Palgrave Macmillan

from theoretical identification restrictions to identifying the main characteristics of the time series data, hence a shift …

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Social Capital

Durlauf, Steven N.; Fafchamps, Marcel - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2004

This paper surveys research on social capital. We explore the concepts that motivate the social capital literature, efforts to formally model social capital using economic theory, the econometrics of social capital, and empirical studies of the role of social capital in various socioeconomic...

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Identification of social interactions

Blume, Lawrence E.; Brock, William A.; Durlauf, Steven N.; … - 2010

the identification of social interactions. We consider linear and discrete choice models as well as social networks … identification literature, we indicate areas where additional research is especially needed and suggest some directions that appear …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294048