Search Results - subject:"survival function"

Life Expectancy, Schooling, and Lifetime Labor Supply: Theory and Evidence Revisited

Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

the survival function is crucial for schooling and labor supply. The empirical results suggest that the relative benefits … realistic shift in the survival function can lead to an increase in schooling and a reduction in lifetime labor hours. …

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How long can austerity persist? The factors that sustain fiscal consolidations

Lodge, David; Rodriguez-Vives, Marta - In: European Journal of Government and Economics (EJGE) 2 (2013) 1, pp. 5-24

To put public debt on a sustainable path, many governments face the task of enacting large fiscal consolidation followed by years of sustained primary surpluses. By estimating hazard functions for the duration of consolidations, we analyse the features of past consolidation efforts across a...

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Treatment Comparison in Biomedical Studies Using Survival Function

Zhao, Meng - 2011

In the dissertation, we study the statistical evaluation of treatment comparisons by evaluating the relative comparison of survival experiences between two treatment groups. We construct confidence interval and simultaneous confidence bands for the ratio and odds ratio of two survival functions...

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Non-parametric inference for the effect of a treatment on survival times with application in the health and social sciences

Luna, Xavier de; Johansson, Per - 2009

In this paper we perform inference on the effect of a treatment on survival times in studies where the treatment assignment is not randomized and the assignment time is not known in advance. Two such studies are discussed: a heart transplant program and a study of Swedish unemployed eligible for...

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Capital decay and tax distortions: How to abandon exponential decay and benefit from it

Biørn, Erik - 2009

The appropriate way of quantifying how taxation of a firm's income and capital can distort its optimizing conditions is a recurring issue in the literature on optimal taxation. Exponential decay, although empirically contested, is almost ubiquitous. In the present paper a generalized framework...

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Nonparametric Priors for Vectors of Survival Functions

Epifani, Ilenia; Lijoi, Antonio - 2009

The paper proposes a new nonparametric prior for two-dimensional vectors of survival functions (S1, S2). The definition we introduce is based on the notion of L´evy copula and it will be used to model, in a nonparametric Bayesian framework, two-sample survival data. Such an application will...

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Survival as a Function of Life Expectancy

Finkelstein, Maxim; Vaupel, James W. - In: Demographic Research 21 (2009) 29, pp. 879-884

survival function can be expressed as an integral of life expectancy - is also true. …

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Nonparametric priors for vectors of survival functions

Epifani, Ilenia; Lijoi, Antonio - Collegio Carlo Alberto, Università degli Studi di Torino - 2009

The paper proposes a new nonparametric prior for two-dimensional vectors of survival functions (S1,S2). The definition we introduce is based on the notion of Lévy copula and it will be used to model, in a nonparametric Bayesian framework, two-sample survival data. Such an application will yield...

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Non-Parametric Inference for the Effect of a Treatment on Survival Times with Application in the Health and Social Sciences

de Luna, Xavier; Johansson, Per - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Keywords: employment subsidy, heart transplant, matching estimator, observational study, potential outcome, survival function … the difference in survival function obtained from taking or not taking treatment. An exception, however, is Heller and … not on the times themselves. 4.2 Survival function The survival function, the proportion of individuals surviving at least …

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Nonparametric Priors for Vectors of Survival Functions

Epifani, Ilenia; Lijoi, Antonio - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Aziendali, … - 2009

The paper proposes a new nonparametric prior for two–dimensional vectors of survival functions (S1, S2). The definition we introduce is based on the notion of L´evy copula and it will be used to model, in a nonparametric Bayesian framework, two–sample survival data. Such an application will...

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