Disability and Employment: Reevaluating the Evidence in Light of Reporting Errors

Kreider, Brent; Pepper, John V.

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“…In this environment, insurance reporting errors are allowed to be arbitrarily related to true insurance status and healthcare use. These results extend parts of the analyses of Horowitz and Manski (1998) and Kreider and Pepper (2007). Second, we formally assess how statistical identification of a treatment effect decays with the degree of uncertainty about the status quo.…”

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Partially Identifying Treatment Effects with an Application to Covering the Uninsured

Kreider¹,

Hill²

2009

J. Human Resources

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We extend the nonparametric literature on partially identified probability distributions and use our analytical results to provide sharp bounds on the impact of universal health insurance on provider visits and medical expenditures. Our approach accounts for uncertainty about the reliability of self-reported insurance status as well as uncertainty created by unknown counterfactuals. We construct health insurance validation data using detailed information from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. Imposing relatively weak nonparametric assumptions, we estimate that under universal coverage monthly per capita provider visits and expenditures would rise by less than 8 percent and 16 percent, respectively, across the nonelderly population. s t r a c tWe extend the nonparametric literature on partially identified probability distributions and use our analytical results to provide sharp bounds on the impact of universal health insurance on provider visits and medical expenditures. Our approach accounts for uncertainty about the reliability of self-reported insurance status as well as uncertainty created by unknown counterfactuals. We construct health insurance validation data using detailed information from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. Imposing relatively weak nonparametric assumptions, we estimate that under universal coverage monthly per capita provider visits and expenditures would rise by less than 8 percent and 16 percent, respectively, across the nonelderly population.

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Partially Identifying Treatment Effects with an Application to Covering the Uninsured

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Hill²

2009

J. Human Resources

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“…All bounds are consistent under the maintained assumptions, but as is noted by Manski and Pepper (2000) the MIV bounds may have nite-sample biases due to the fact that the bounds are obtained by taking maxima and minima over collections of nonparametric regression estimates. 5 Kreider and Pepper (2007) propose a bias-correction method that uses the bootstrap distribution to estimate the nite-sample bias. Supposeθ is the initial estimate of an MIV upper or lower bound and θ k is the estimate of the k th bootstrap replication, the bias is then estimated asbias = 1…”

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The Effect of Parents’ Schooling on Child’s Schooling: A Nonparametric Bounds Analysis

Haan

2011

Journal of Labor Economics

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The effect of parents' schooling on child's schooling: a nonparametric bounds analysis de Haan, M. Link to publication Citation for published version (APA):de Haan, M. (2010). The effect of parents' schooling on child's schooling: a nonparametric bounds analysis. Amsterdam: Amsterdam School of Economics. General rightsIt is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), other than for strictly personal, individual use, unless the work is under an open content license (like Creative Commons). Disclaimer/Complaints regulationsIf you believe that digital publication of certain material infringes any of your rights or (privacy) interests, please let the Library know, stating your reasons. In case of a legitimate complaint, the Library will make the material inaccessible and/or remove it from the website. Please Ask the Library: http://uba.uva.nl/en/contact, or a letter to: Library of the University of Amsterdam, Secretariat, Singel 425, 1012 WP Amsterdam, The Netherlands. You will be contacted as soon as possible. Download date: 10 May 2018The e ect of parents' schooling on child's schooling:A nonparametric bounds analysis Monique de Haan * Abstract A strong positive relation between parents' schooling and child's schooling does not necessarily re ect a causal relation. The recent empirical literature has used di erent approaches to identify intergenerational schooling e ects and produces contradictory ndings. This paper uses a new approach to investigate the e ect of parents' schooling on child's schooling: a nonparametric bounds analysis. By relying on a set of relatively weak and in part testable assumptions, this paper obtains informative bounds on the average causal impact of mother's and father's schooling on the schooling of their child. The tightest bounds, which are obtained using monotone instrumental variables, show that increasing mother's or father's schooling to a college degree has a positive e ect on child's schooling which is signi cantly di erent from zero, but substantially lower than the OLS estimates.

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“…Here again, the evidence is mixed. For example, Benitez-Silva et al [20] and Stern [21] find little evidence of bias in reported disability status while Kreider [22] and Kreider and Pepper [23] do find evidence of justification bias.…”

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The effect of health changes and long-term health on the work activity of older Canadians

Crossley

Stevens

2005

Health Econ.

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Summary: Using longitudinal data from the Canadian National Population Health Survey (NPHS), we study the relationship between health and employment among older Canadians. We focus on two issues: (1) the possible problems with self-reported health, including endogeneity and measurement error, and (2) the relative importance of health changes and long-term health in the decision to work. We contrast estimates of the impact of health on employment using self-assessed health, an objective health index contained in the NPHS -the HUI3, and a "purged" health stock measure. Our results suggest that health has an economically significant effect on employment probabilities for Canadian men and women aged 50 to 64, and that this effect is underestimated by simple estimates based on self-assessed health. We also corroborate recent U.S. and U.K. findings that changes in health are important in the work decision.

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Disability and Employment: Reevaluating the Evidence in Light of Reporting Errors

Cited by 114 publications

References 44 publications

Partially Identifying Treatment Effects with an Application to Covering the Uninsured

Partially Identifying Treatment Effects with an Application to Covering the Uninsured

The Effect of Parents’ Schooling on Child’s Schooling: A Nonparametric Bounds Analysis

The effect of health changes and long-term health on the work activity of older Canadians

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