Accounting for the Black-White Wealth Gap: A Nonparametric Approach

True health vs response styles: exploring cross‐country differences in self‐reported health

“…If one allows for differences in disability weights, it is natural to think of decomposing observed differences in self-reported health in three parts: differences due to differences in the prevalence of conditions (a prevalence effect), differences due to differences in the effect of conditions on health (a severity effect), and a residual difference that contains other unspecified effects including reporting bias [13]. This decomposition follows the Oaxaca-Blinder approach well-known in the labour economics literature (non-parametric decomposition by way of re-weighting [23] yields very similar results).…”

The Labor Supply and Tax Revenue Consequences of Federal Same-Sex Marriage Legalization

“…The responsiveness of marital choice to taxation is identifi ed by comparing households with identical p( y 1 , y 2 ) that are exposed to varying levels of the treatment, p( y 1 , y 2 ). To ensure that the necessary condition of sample overlap is satisfi ed (Imbens 2004), the data are balanced following Barsky, et al (2002). The weights constructed by this procedure impose the counterfactual assumption that the distribution of p( y 1 , y 2 ) among married household matches the distribution observed among unmarried households.…”

Reformulating competition? Gasoline content regulation and wholesale gasoline prices

“…Under the regulation, gasoline marketed in ''nonattainment'' areas must meet different emissions and formulation requirements depending on the type of air pollution violation. 1 Hence, the implementation of the CAAA resulted in discrete changes in the required formulation of gasoline across metropolitan areas and geographically segmented once contiguous wholesale gasoline markets. By 2004, industry analysts estimated that the number of fuels in the United States proliferated from one type to over 17 types as a result of the regulation [23].…”

“…This implies that changes in the number of suppliers do not absorb all variation in price effect of regulation across cities, but do have some effect and in the expected direction. 1 EPA classifies counties as ''non-attainment'' if air pollution levels exceed criteria limits. The three main types of regulation are Federal Reformulated Gasoline, which was required for metropolitan areas with highest levels of ozone non-attainment, Reid vapor pressure, and oxygenate requirements, for non-attainment areas for ozone and CO, respectively.…”