Search Results - subject:"binary regressor"

Returns to Lying? Identifying the Effects of Misreporting When the Truth is Unobserved

Lewbel, Arthur; Hu, Yingyao - Department of Economics, Boston College - 2007

Consider an observed binary regressor D and an unobserved binary variable D*, both of which affect some other variable …

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Nonparametric analysis of treatment effects in ordered response models

Boes, Stefan - In: Empirical Economics 44 (2013) 1, pp. 81-109

Treatment analyses based on average outcomes do not immediately generalize to the case of ordered responses because the expectation of an ordinally measured variable does not exist. The proposed remedy in this paper is a shift in focus to distributional effects. Assuming a threshold crossing...

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Estimation of Average Treatment Effects With Misclassification

Lewbel, Arthur - Department of Economics, Boston College - 2003

This paper considers identification and estimation of the marginal effect of a mismeasured binary regressor in a … (the binary regressor) and satisfies some conditional independence assumptions. This variable could be an instrument or a …

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Regression Coefficient Identification Decay in the Presence of Infrequent Classification Errors

Kreider, Brent - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2007

the identification problem given the presence of even infrequent arbitrary errors in a binary regressor. In the empirical …

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