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Social Approval and Teenage Childbearing
(Vanderbilt University, 2001)
We examine the phenomenon of "pockets of teenage illegitimacy" in a model of social approval, where attitudes to such illegitimacy are endogenously determined at a local community level. Both a woman's actual well-being ...
Identification and Estimation with Contaminated Data: When Does Covariate Data Sharpen Inference?
(Vanderbilt University, 2001)
When data contain errors, parameters of interest typically are not identified without imposing strong assumptions. However, in many cases, bounds on these parameters can be constructed under relatively weak assumptions. ...