Search Costs and Medicare Plan Choice (2008)
McCarthy, Ian, Tchernis, Rusty
There is increasing evidence suggesting that Medicare beneficiaries do not make fully informed decisions when choosing among alternative Medicare health plans. To the extent that deciphering the...
The Connection Between Maternal Employment and Childhood Obesity: Inspecting the Mechanisms (2006)
Fertig, Angela, Glomm, Gerhard, Tchernis, Rusty
This paper investigates the channels through which maternal employment affects childhood obesity. We use time diaries and interview responses from the Child Development Supplement of the Panel Study...
The Role of Social Norms in Child Labor and Schooling in India (2006)
Chamarbagwala, Rubiana, Tchernis, Rusty
This paper aims to summarize the unexplained propensity of children to engage in work, school, or neither. After controlling for a wide range of determinants of child labor, schooling, and idleness,...
On the Specification of Propensity Scores: with an Application to the WTO-Environment Debate (2006)
Millimet, Daniel, Tchernis, Rusty
The use of propensity score methods for program evaluation with non-experimental data typically requires the propensity score be estimated, often with a model whose specification is unknown. While...
Essays on labor mobility / (2002)
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The Role of Social Norms in Child Labor and Schooling in India
Rubiana Chamarbagwala, Rusty Tchernis
This paper aims to summarize the unexplained propensity of children to engage in work, school, or neither. After controlling for a wide range of determinants of child labor, schooling, and idleness,...
On the Specification of Propensity Scores: with an Application to the WTO-Environment Debate
Daniel Millimet, Rusty Tchernis
The use of propensity score methods for program evaluation with non-experimental data typically requires the propensity score be estimated, often with a model whose specification is unknown. While...
School Nutrition Programs and the Incidence of Childhood Obesity
Daniel Millimet, Rusty Tchernis, Muna Hussain
In light of the recent rise in childhood obesity, the School Breakfast Program (SBP) and National School Lunch Program (NSLP) have received renewed attention, despite the fact that they have existed...
The Connection Between Maternal Employment and Childhood Obesity: Inspecting the Mechanisms
Angela Fertig, Gerhard Glomm, Rusty Tchernis
This paper investigates the channels through which maternal employment affects childhood obesity. We use time diaries and interview responses from the Child Development Supplement of the Panel Study...
On the Specification of Propensity Scores: with Applications to the Analysis of Trade Policies
Daniel Millimet, Rusty Tchernis
The use of propensity score models for program evaluation with non-experimental data typically requires the propensity score be estimated, often with a model whose specification is unknown. While...
Minimizing Bias in Selection on Observables Estimators When Unconfoundness Fails
Daniel Millimet, Rusty Tchernis
We characterize the bias of propensity score based estimators of common average treatment effect parameters in the case of selection on unobservables. We then propose a new minimum biased estimator...
Search Costs and Medicare Plan Choice
There is increasing evidence suggesting that Medicare beneficiaries do not make fully informed decisions when choosing among alternative Medicare health plans. To the extent that deciphering the...
Interfirm Mobility, Wages, and the Returns to Seniority and Experience in the U.S.
Moshe Buchinsky, Denis Fougère, Francis Kramarz, Rusty Tchernis
In this paper, we follow on the seminal work of Altonji and Shakotko (1987) and Topel (1991) and reinvestigate the returns to seniority in the U.S. These papers specify a wage function, in which...
Interfirm Mobility, Wages, and the Returns to Seniority and Experience in the U.S.
Buchinsky, Moshe, Fougère, Denis, Kramarz, Francis, Tchernis, Rusty
Much of the research in labor economics during the 1980s and the early 1990s was devoted to the analysis of changes in the wage structure across many of the world’s economies. Only recently, has...
Minimizing Bias in Selection on Observables Estimators When Unconfoundness Fails
Millimet, Daniel L., Tchernis, Rusty
We characterize the bias of propensity score based estimators of common average treatment effect parameters in the case of selection on unobservables. We then propose a new minimum biased estimator...
School Nutrition Programs and the Incidence of Childhood Obesity
Daniel L. Millimet, Rusty Tchernis, Muna Husain
In light of the recent rise in childhood obesity, the School Breakfast Program (SBP) and National School Lunch Program (NSLP) have received renewed attention. Using panel data on over 13,500 primary...
School Nutrition Programs and the Incidence of Childhood Obesity
Millimet, Daniel L., Tchernis, Rusty, Husain, Muna
In light of the recent rise in childhood obesity, the School Breakfast Program (SBP) and National School Lunch Program (NSLP) have received renewed attention. Using panel data on over 13,500 primary...