Search Results - subject:"Control Function"

Densities rather than shares : improving the measurement of congestion in recreation demand models

Bujosa, Angel; Riera Font, Antoni; Hicks, Robert L.; … - In: Environmental & resource economics : the official … 61 (2015) 2, pp. 127-140

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Flexible nonlinear inference with endogenous explanatory variables

Kim, Dong-heon - In: Seoul journal of economics 28 (2015) 3, pp. 311-323

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The production of child health in Kenya: a structural model of birth weight

Mwabu, Germano - 2008

The paper investigates birth weight and its correlates in Kenya using nationally representative data collected by the government in the early 1990s. I find that immunization of the mother against tetanus during pregnancy is strongly associated with improvements in birth weight. Other factors...

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The Production of Child Health in Kenya: A Structural Model of Birth Weight

Mwabu, Germano - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2008

the control function approach, can be used to consistently estimate structural models of birth weight production when …-randomness of a selected sample, while the control function approach (Garen, 1984; Wooldridge, 1997; Card 2001) is used to deal … control function variables because they control for the effects of unobservable factors that would otherwise contaminate the …

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Does Doing an Apprenticeship Pay Off?Â Evidence from Ghana

Teal, Francis; Monk, Courtney; Sandefur, Justin - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008

than those who enter with more education. Keywords: Apprenticeship; Africa; Training; Treatment; Control function JEL … control function approach (in the first stage) in order to have a flexible functional form in the earnings equation. In … instrumenting strategy, using a treatment eﬀects (IV) approach as well as a control function in the first stage. The control …

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Alternative Approaches to Evaluation in Empirical Microeconomics

Blundell, Richard; Dias, Mónica Costa - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2008

This paper reviews a range of the most popular policy evaluation methods in empirical microeconomics: social experiments, natural experiments, matching methods, instrumental variables, discontinuity design and control functions. It discusses the identification of both the traditionally used...

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Does Doing an Apprenticeship Pay Off? Evidence from Ghana

Monk, Courtney; Sandefur, Justin; Teal, Francis - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2008

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A Note on the Control Function Approach with an Instrumental Variable and a Binary Outcome

Tchetgen Tchetgen, Eric - In: Epidemiologic Methods 3 (2014) 1, pp. 107-112

stage procedure can be used. Alternatively, a control function approach is sometimes used which entails entering the … binary exposure in the context of a binary outcome. We provide an alternative motivation for the control function approach …

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Quasi-maximum likelihood estimation and testing for nonlinear models with endogenous explanatory variables

Wooldridge, Jeffrey M. - In: Journal of Econometrics 182 (2014) 1, pp. 226-234

maximum likelihood procedure, as one or both of the log likelihoods may be misspecified. The two-step control function … explanatory variables, I argue that the control function approach can be applied with generalized residuals to obtain average …

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Estimating entrants' productivity when prices are unobserved

Kılınç, Umut - In: Economic Modelling 38 (2014) C, pp. 640-647

for the price variation. The estimation routine deals with the endogeneity due to unobserved productivity using a control … function approach, and retrieves average markups for entrants and incumbents together with a markup-adjusted productivity index …

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