Identification and Estimation of Local Average Treatment Effects

Angrist, Joshua D.; Imbens, Guido W.

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“…the impact of co-residence among individuals whose co-residence status was a result of the national economic prospects faced by their children. Our IV estimates, therefore, do not capture the causal effect of co-residence for "non-compliers" (respondents whose living arrangements would be unaffected by national economic prospects) and "always compliers" (those who would co-reside with their adult children independently of the characteristics of the instruments) (Imbens & Angrist, 1994).…”

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Under one roof: The effect of co-residing with adult children on depression in later life

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Avendaño

2016

Social Science & Medicine

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Rationale. The number of older parents living without adult children has increased dramatically over the last decades. However, recent trends exacerbated by the Great Recession have led to an increase in intergenerational co-residing. Methods. We used three waves of data (2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010) from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) collected around the great recession to assess the effects of intergenerational co-residence on mental health in later life (n=50,043). We used an instrumental variable approach that exploits changes in employment opportunities of adult children during the great recession to examine the impact of coresiding with adult children on depression scores measured using the Euro-D scale of depression. Results. Northern European countries exhibited low levels of both co-residence and depression in older age, while most countries in Eastern and Southern Europe had high levels of both co-residence and depression. In OLS models that controlled for measured characteristics, co-residing with an adult child was not associated with depressive symptoms in older parents (β=-0.0387; 95% CI -0.0892 to 0.0118). By contrast, results from IV models suggest that co-residing with an adult child significantly reduces depressive symptoms by 0.731 points (95% CI -1.261 to -0.200) on the 12-item scale.Results were robust to a series of robustness checks including controls for child characteristics, country-specific time trends, and analyses restricted to homeowners. Conclusions. Our findings suggest that, in the context of high unemployment rates during the Great Recession in Europe, increased intergenerational exchange between adult children and older parents in the form of co-residence had positive mental health effects on older parents.

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Under one roof: The effect of co-residing with adult children on depression in later life

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2016

Social Science & Medicine

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“…The e ect is statistically signi cant at 17 Neither did the opening of regional cancer wards signi cantly impact on the number of cancer patients in the Oslo region (see Appendix Figure A.2). 18 Unless it was positively con rmed that there was no distant spread, cases were from this point onwards coded as having an unknown spread whereas such cases were previously assigned a stage based on their reported degree of spread, locally or regionally. Before the mid-1980s it was thus assumed that, if no distant spread was noted, there was none.…”

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Access to treatment and educational inequalities in cancer survival

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The public health care systems in the Nordic countries provide high quality care almost free of charge to all citizens. However, social inequalities in health persist. Previous research has, for example, documented substantial educational inequalities in cancer survival. We investigate to what extent this may be driven by di erential access to and utilization of high quality treatment options. Quasi-experimental evidence based on the establishment of regional cancer wards indicates that i) highly educated individuals utilized centralized specialized treatment to a greater extent than less educated patients and ii) the use of such treatment improved these patients' survival.

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“…This is the type of situation discussed in the local average treatment effect (LATE) literature (c.f. Imbens and Angrist, 1994).…”

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This paper provides an impressive, yet compact and easily accessible review of the econometric literature on panel data analysis. Professor Cheng Hsiao has succeeded in surveying, in a coherent manner, classic results as well as more challenging recent developments on nonlinear models, crosssectional dependence, and long time-series panels. The coverage of topics in the article reflects the breadth of Professor Hsiao's important contributions to panel data econometrics over many years.In my comments I will focus on two aspects of recent work on nonlinear models. Firstly, I will discuss state dependence and dynamics from a treatment effect perspective. Secondly, I will consider the issue of choice of population framework and its implications for identifiability. Both comments are closely interconnected.

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Identification and Estimation of Local Average Treatment Effects

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Under one roof: The effect of co-residing with adult children on depression in later life

Under one roof: The effect of co-residing with adult children on depression in later life

Access to treatment and educational inequalities in cancer survival

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