Browsing Department of Economics by Author "Mullin, Charles H."
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Mullin, Charles H. (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 ...
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Mullin, Charles H. (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. ...
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Lucking-Reiley, David; Mullin, Charles H. (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 ...
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Mani, Anandi; Mullin, Charles H. (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, ...
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Mani, Anandi; Mullin, Charles H. (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 ...
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Dugan, Kelly; Mullin, Charles H.; Siegfried, John J. (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 ...