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(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2008-01-14)
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(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2008)
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(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2008-04-21)This paper examines impacts of childhood health on SES outcomes observed during adulthood- levels and trajectories of education, family income, household wealth, individual earnings and labor supply. The analysis is ...
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(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2008-12-15)This paper presents the econometric approach to causal modeling. It is motivated by policy problems. New causal parameters are defined and identified to address specific policy problems. Economists embrace a scientific ...
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(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2008-12-15)We exploit an exogenous increase in General Educational Development (GED) testing requirements to determine whether raising the diffculty of the test causes students to finish high school rather than drop out and GED ...
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(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2008-12-15)This paper discusses (a) the role of cognitive and noncognitive ability in shaping adult outcomes, (b) the early emergence of differentials in abilities between children of advantaged families and children of disadvantaged ...
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(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2008-08-06)Smokers not only choose the number of cigarettes to smoke in any given period on the basis of price, they also choose the intensity with which to smoke - that is, how much nicotine to inhale. The possibility that ...
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(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2008-02-27)We adopt a structural approach to studying the effects of public transfers on consumption smoothing, risk sharing and welfare in small village economies. We calibrate the key parameters of a dynamic limited commitment model ...
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(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2008-02-26)
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(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2008-12-15)This paper develops the method of local instrumental variables for models with multiple, unordered treatments when treatment choice is determined by a nonparametric version of the multinomial choice model. Responses to ...