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On the equivalence of instrumental variables estimators for linear models

Galvao, Antonio Fialho <Jr.>; Montes-Rojas, Gabriel - In: Economics letters 134 (2015), pp. 13-15

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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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Tests for Price Endogeneity in Differentiated Product Models

Kim, Kyoo il; Petrin, Amil - In: Journal of Econometric Methods 4 (2015) 1, pp. 47-69

Abstract We develop simple tests for endogenous prices arising from omitted demand factors in discrete choice models. Our approach only requires one to locate testing proxies that have some correlation with the omitted factors when prices are endogenous. We use the difference between prices and...

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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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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

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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Does Doing an Apprenticeship Pay Off?Â Evidence from Ghana

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

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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 poverty reduce mental health? An instrumental variable analysis

Hanandita, Wulung; Tampubolon, Gindo - In: Social Science & Medicine 113 (2014) C, pp. 59-67

That poverty and mental health are negatively associated in developing countries is well known among epidemiologists. Whether the relationship is causal or associational, however, remains an open question. This paper aims to estimate the causal effect of poverty on mental health by exploiting a...

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