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Instrumental Variables Estimation of Average Treatment Effects in Econometrics and Epidemiology

Angrist, Joshua D. - 1991

linear instrumental variables. techniques to consistently estimate average treatment effects in qualitative or other … model is presented. The evidence suggests that linear instrumental variables estimators perform nearly as well as the … correctly specified maximum likelihood estimator. especially in large samples. Linear instrumental variables and the normal …

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Communal dining system and the puzzle of the Great Leap Famine : Re-examine the causality between communal dining and the famine

Liu, Yuan; G. Wen, James; Wei, Xiahai - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 6 (2014) 4, pp. 698-716

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explain the puzzle of Chinese Great Leap Famine, which started with a good harvest in the end of 1958 and ended with lowest rural grain consumption per capita in 1961, by focussing on the communal dining system characterized by compulsory...

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Model Misspecification When Excluding Instrumental Variables from PS Models in Settings Where Instruments Modify the Effects of Covariates on Treatment

Wyss, Richard; Ellis, Alan R.; Lunt, Mark; Brookhart, … - In: Epidemiologic Methods 3 (2014) 1, pp. 83-96

Abstract Theory and simulations show that variables affecting the outcome only through exposure, known as instrumental … variables (IVs), should be excluded from propensity score (PS) models. In pharmacoepidemiologic studies based on automated …

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Is Scientific Knowledge Useful for Policy Analysis? A Peculiar Theorem Says: No

Pearl, Judea - In: Journal of Causal Inference 2 (2014) 1, pp. 109-112

Abstract Conventional wisdom dictates that the more we know about a problem domain the easier it is to predict the effects of policies in that domain. Strangely, this wisdom is not sanctioned by formal analysis, when the notions of “knowledge” and “policy” are given concrete definitions...

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Tolerating Threat? The Independent Effects of Civil Conflict on Domestic Political Tolerance

Hutchison, Marc L. - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 58 (2014) 5, pp. 796-824

Research on civil conflict focuses primarily on identifying underlying and proximate causes while leaving many questions of subsequent social consequences unanswered. Few studies have systematically examined how these conflicts affect public opinion, especially tolerance attitudes. Additionally,...

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The Effect of Economic Insecurity on Mental Health: Recent Evidence from Australian Panel Data

Rohde, Nicholas; Tang, Kam Ki; Osberg, Lars; Rao, D.S. … - Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics, … - 2014

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How does a firm’s management of greenhouse gas emissions influence its economic performance? Analyzing effects through demand and productivity in Japanese manufacturing firms

Nishitani, Kimitaka; Kaneko, Shinji; Komatsu, Satoru; … - In: Journal of Productivity Analysis 42 (2014) 3, pp. 355-366

This paper analyzes how a firm’s management of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions affects its economic performance. The theoretical model we derive from Cobb–Douglas production and inverse demand functions predict that in conducting GHG emissions management, a firm will enhance its economic...

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Tightening bounds in triangular systems

Kédagni, Désiré; Mourifié, Ismael - In: Economics Letters 125 (2014) 3, pp. 455-458

This note discusses partial identification in a nonparametric triangular system with discrete endogenous regressors and nonseparable errors. Recently, Jun et al. (2011, JPX) provide bounds on the structural function evaluated at particular values using exclusion, exogeneity and rank conditions....

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Late life transitions and social networks: The case of retirement

Fletcher, Jason M. - In: Economics Letters 125 (2014) 3, pp. 459-462

I use SHARE social networks data from 16 countries to examine retirement impacts on social networks. I extend the literature by using across-country differences in pension eligibility ages as instruments to show limited impacts of retirement on social network outcomes.

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Compulsory schooling, education, depression and memory: New evidence from SHARELIFE

Crespo, Laura; López-Noval, Borja; Mira, Pedro - In: Economics of Education Review 43 (2014) C, pp. 36-46

In this paper we provide new evidence on the causal effect of education on adult depression and cognition. We use SHARE data and schooling reforms in several European countries as instruments for educational attainment. We find that an extra year of education has a large and significant...

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