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Social Approval and Occupational Choice
(Vanderbilt University, 2000)
We examine the impact of a desire for social approval on education and occupation choice and model the endogenous determination of perceptions that influence such approval. In a two-sector overlapping generations framework, ...
Bounding Causal Effects with Contaminated and Censored Data: Reassessing the Impact of Early Childbearing on Children
(Vanderbilt University, 2000)
Empirical researchers commonly use instrumental variable (IV) assumptions to identify treatment effects. However, the credibility of these assumptions are often questionable. This paper considers what can be learned when ...
Undergraduate Financial Aid and Subsequent Alumni Giving Behavior
(Vanderbilt University, 2000)
Data on 2,822 Vanderbilt University graduates are used to investigate alumni giving behavior during the eight years after graduation. A two stage model accounting for incidental truncation is used to first estimate the ...
Recombinant Estimation for Normal-Form Games with Applications to Auctions and Bargaining
(Vanderbilt University, 2000)
In empirical studies of simultaneous-move games, such as sealed-bid auctions, researchers frequently wish to estimate quantities which depend on interactions between the strategies of different players. Examples include ...