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Estimation of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects on Hazard Rates

Gaure, Simen - 2010

Consider a setting where a treatment that starts at some point during a spell (e.g. in unemployment) may impact on the hazard rate of the spell duration, and where the impact may be heterogeneous across subjects. We provide Monte Carlo evidence on the feasibility of estimating the distribution...

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Imposing Economic Constraints in Nonparametric Regression : Survey, Implementation and Extension

Henderson, Daniel J. - 2009

Economic conditions such as convexity, homogeneity, homotheticity, and monotonicity are all important assumptions or consequences of assumptions of economic functionals to be estimated. Recent research has seen a renewed interest in imposing constraints in nonparametric regression. We survey the...

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Infections, Accidents and Nursing Overtime in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit : A Bayesian Semiparametric Panel Data Logit Model

Beltempo, Marc - 2020

The paper investigates the effects of nursing overtime on nosocomial infections and medical accidents in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). The literature lacks clear evidence on this issue and we conjecture that this may be due to empirical and methodological factors. We thus focus on a...

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The Quantity and Quality of Children : A Semi-Parametric Bayesian IV Approach

Fruhwirth-Schnatter, Sylvia - 2014

Prior empirical research on the theoretically proposed interaction between the quantity and the quality of children builds on exogenous variation in family size due to twin births and focuses on human capital outcomes. The typical finding can be described as a statistically nonsignificant...

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Searching for Rehabilitation in Nonparametric Regression Models with Exogenous Treatment Assignment

Henderson, Daniel J. - 2012

This paper offers some new directions in the analysis of nonparamertric models with exogenous treatment assignment. The nonparametric approach opens the door to the examination of potentially different distributed outcomes. When combined with cross-validation, it also identifies potentially...

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The Identification and Economic Content of Ordered Choice Models with Stochastic Thresholds

Cunha, Flávio - 2008

This paper extends the widely used ordered choice model by introducing stochastic thresholds and interval-specific outcomes. The model can be interpreted as a generalization of the GAFT (MPH) framework for discrete duration data that jointly models durations and outcomes associated with...

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The Variability and Volatility of Sleep : An Archetypal Approach

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2022

individuals' sleep time exhibits both variability and volatility characterized by stationary autoregressive conditional … young children at home. Volatility is greater among parents with young children, slightly greater among men than women, but … independent of other demographics. A theory of economic incentives to minimize the dispersion of sleep predicts that higher …

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Identification and Estimation of Distributional Impacts of Interventions Using Changes in Inequality Measures

Firpo, Sergio - 2010

This paper presents semiparametric estimators of distributional impacts of interventions (treatment) when selection to the program is based on observable characteristics. Distributional impacts of a treatment are calculated as differences in inequality measures of the potential outcomes of...

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New Evidence on the Finite Sample Properties of Propensity Score Matching and Reweighting Estimators

Busso, Matias - 2009

Currently available asymptotic results in the literature suggest that matching estimators have higher variance than reweighting estimators. The extant literature comparing the finite sample properties of matching to specific reweighting estimators, however, has concluded that reweighting...

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Job Durations with Worker and Firm Specific Effects : MCMC Estimation with Longitudinal Employer-Employee Data

Horny, Guillaume - 2009

We study job durations using a multivariate hazard model allowing for worker-specific and firm-specific unobserved determinants. The latter are captured by unobserved heterogeneity terms or random effects, one at the firm level and another at the worker level. This enables us to decompose the...

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