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The consequences of measurement error when estimating the impact of BMI on labour market outcomes

O'Neill, Donal; Sweetman, Olive B. - 2012

This paper uses data on both self-reported and true measures of individual Body Mass Index (BMI) to examine the nature of measurement error in self-reported BMI and to look at the consequences of using self-reported measures when estimating the effect of BMI on economic outcomes. In keeping with...

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Estimating obesity rates in the presence of measurement error

O'Neill, Donal; Sweetman, Olive B. - 2013

Reliable measures of obesity are essential in order to develop effective policies to tackle the costs of obesity. In … this paper we examine what, if anything, we can learn about obesity rates using self-reported BMI once we allow for … data to derive upper and lower bounds for the population obesity rate for ten European countries. For men it is possible to …

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The causal impact of mental health on tobacco and alcohol consumption: An instrumental variables approach

Mitrou, Francis; Nguyen, Ha Trong; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2023

The reciprocal relationship between psychiatric and substance use disorders is well-known, yet it remains largely unknown whether mental health morbidity causally leads to addictive behaviours. This paper utilises a fixed effects instrumental variables model, which is identified by time-varying...

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Breaking Ties: Regression Discontinuity Design Meets Market Design

Abdulkadiroglu, Atila; Angrist, Joshua; Narita, Yusuke; … - 2019

Centralized school assignment algorithms must distinguish between applicants with the same preferences and priorities. This is done with randomly assigned lottery numbers, nonlottery tie-breakers like test scores, or both. The New York City public high school match illustrates the latter, using...

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Inference with Arbitrary Clustering

Colella, Fabrizio; Lalive, Rafael; Sakalli, Seyhun Orcan; … - 2019

Analyses of spatial or network data are now very common. Nevertheless, statistical inference is challenging since unobserved heterogeneity can be correlated across neighboring observational units. We develop an estimator for the variance-covariance matrix (VCV) of OLS and 2SLS that allows for...

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Two-stage instrumental variable estimation of linear panel data models with interactive effects

Cui, Guowei; Norkuté, Milda; Sarafidis, Vasilis; … - 2020

This paper puts forward a new instrumental variables (IV) approach for linear panel datamodels with interactive effects in the error term and regressors. The instruments are transformed regressors and so it is not necessary to search for external instruments. The proposed method asymptotically...

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The effects of income inequality on BMI and obesity: Evidence from the BRFSS

Volland, Benjamin - 2012

Despite increasing knowledge on its adverse consequences, obesity prevalence across the U.S. has been rising markedly … argued to exacerbate the prevalence of obesity is the distribution of income. Augmenting data from 12 consecutive waves of … of variations in body mass and obesity across the U.S. It finds that they have a significant positive effect on BMI and …

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Indebted and overweight: The link between weight and household debt

Averett, Susan L.; Smith, Julie K. - 2012

) is a potential cause of obesity. We find a strong positive correlation between debt and weight for women but this seems …

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Birthweight and Academic Achievement in Childhood

Chatterji, Pinka; Kim, Dohyung; Lahiri, Kajal - 2014

Research has shown that birthweight has a lasting impact on later-life outcomes such as educational attainment and earnings. This paper examines the role of health at birth in determining academic achievement in childhood, which may provide the link between birthweight and adult outcomes. Using...

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Estimation of linear models from coarsened observations: A method of moments approach

van Praag, Bernard M. S.; Hop, J. Peter; Greene, William - 2024

In the last few decades, the study of ordinal data in which the variable of interest is not exactly observed but only known to be in a specific ordinal category has become important. In Psychometrics such variables are analysed under the heading of item response models (IRM). In Econometrics,...

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