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Working Papers

2023

1. Estimation of marginal odds ratios
   University of Bern Social Sciences Working Papers, University of Bern, Department of Social Sciences View citations (1)

2022

2. Color palettes for Stata graphics: an update
   University of Bern Social Sciences Working Papers, University of Bern, Department of Social Sciences View citations (2)
3. ColrSpace: A Mata class for color management
   University of Bern Social Sciences Working Papers, University of Bern, Department of Social Sciences
4. Marginal odds ratios: What they are, how to compute them, and why applied researchers might want to use them
   Swiss Stata Conference 2022, Stata Users Group
5. sttex – a new dynamic document command for Stata and LaTeX
   London Stata Conference 2022, Stata Users Group

2021

6. A robust regression estimator for pairwise-difference transformed data: xtrobreg
   London Stata Conference 2021, Stata Users Group
7. Entropy balancing as an estimation command
   University of Bern Social Sciences Working Papers, University of Bern, Department of Social Sciences View citations (3)
8. Inadequate Teacher Content Knowledge and What to Do About It: Evidence from El Salvador
   Diskussionsschriften, Universitaet Bern, Departement Volkswirtschaft
   Also in University of Bern Social Sciences Working Papers, University of Bern, Department of Social Sciences (2021)
9. Relative distribution analysis in Stata
   University of Bern Social Sciences Working Papers, University of Bern, Department of Social Sciences View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article in Stata Journal (2021)
10. dstat: A new command for the analysis of distributions
    2021 Stata Conference, Stata Users Group

2020

11. Influence functions continued. A framework for estimating standard errors in reweighting, matching, and regression adjustment
    University of Bern Social Sciences Working Papers, University of Bern, Department of Social Sciences View citations (1)
12. Lohngerechtigkeit und Geschlechternormen: Erhalten Männer eine Heiratsprämie?
    University of Bern Social Sciences Working Papers, University of Bern, Department of Social Sciences
13. Teacher Content Knowledge in Developing Countries: Evidence from a Math Assessment in El Salvador
    Diskussionsschriften, Universitaet Bern, Departement Volkswirtschaft View citations (4)
    Also in University of Bern Social Sciences Working Papers, University of Bern, Department of Social Sciences (2020) View citations (4)

2019

14. Heat (and hexagon) plots in Stata
    German Stata Users' Group Meetings 2019, Stata Users Group
    Also in London Stata Conference 2019, Stata Users Group (2019)
15. Influence functions for linear regression (with an application to regression adjustment)
    University of Bern Social Sciences Working Papers, University of Bern, Department of Social Sciences View citations (1)

2018

16. Color palettes for Stata graphics
    University of Bern Social Sciences Working Papers, University of Bern, Department of Social Sciences View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article in Stata Journal (2018)
17. Customizing Stata graphs made easy
    London Stata Conference 2018, Stata Users Group View citations (2)
    Also in University of Bern Social Sciences Working Papers, University of Bern, Department of Social Sciences (2017) View citations (1)
18. Customizing Stata graphs made even easier
    University of Bern Social Sciences Working Papers, University of Bern, Department of Social Sciences View citations (2)

2017

19. Creating HTML or Markdown documents from within Stata using webdoc
    University of Bern Social Sciences Working Papers, University of Bern, Department of Social Sciences View citations (4)
    See also Journal Article in Stata Journal (2017)
20. Plotting regression coefficients and other estimates in Stata
    University of Bern Social Sciences Working Papers, University of Bern, Department of Social Sciences View citations (2)
    See also Software Item (2023)
21. Robust statistics in Stata
    United Kingdom Stata Users' Group Meetings 2017, Stata Users Group
22. Social Status and Peer-Punishment: Findings from Two Road Traffic Field Experiments
    University of Bern Social Sciences Working Papers, University of Bern, Department of Social Sciences
23. Why propensity scores should be used for matching
    German Stata Users' Group Meetings 2017, Stata Users Group View citations (5)
24. kmatch: Kernel matching with automatic bandwidth selection
    United Kingdom Stata Users' Group Meetings 2017, Stata Users Group View citations (7)

2016

25. Assessing inequality using percentile shares
    University of Bern Social Sciences Working Papers, University of Bern, Department of Social Sciences View citations (10)
    See also Journal Article in Stata Journal (2016)
26. Creating LaTeX documents from within Stata using texdoc
    University of Bern Social Sciences Working Papers, University of Bern, Department of Social Sciences View citations (4)
    See also Journal Article in Stata Journal (2016)
27. Educational expansion and homogamy. An analysis of the consequences of educational upgrading for assortative mating in Switzerland
    University of Bern Social Sciences Working Papers, University of Bern, Department of Social Sciences
28. Estimating Lorenz and concentration curves in Stata
    University of Bern Social Sciences Working Papers, University of Bern, Department of Social Sciences View citations (16)
29. Fiscal Federalism and Tax Equalization: The potential for progressive local taxes
    University of Bern Social Sciences Working Papers, University of Bern, Department of Social Sciences
30. MTurk Survey on "Mood and Personality". Documentation
    University of Bern Social Sciences Working Papers, University of Bern, Department of Social Sciences
31. More Is Not Always Better: An Experimental Individual-Level Validation of the Randomized Response Technique and the Crosswise Model
    University of Bern Social Sciences Working Papers, University of Bern, Department of Social Sciences View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article in PLOS ONE (2018)
32. texdoc 2.0: An update on creating LaTeX documents from within Stata
    United Kingdom Stata Users' Group Meetings 2016, Stata Users Group View citations (4)

2015

33. A new Stata command for computing and graphing percentile shares
    United Kingdom Stata Users' Group Meetings 2015, Stata Users Group
34. Erbschaften und Schenkungen im Kanton Bern, Steuerjahre 2002 bis 2012
    University of Bern Social Sciences Working Papers, University of Bern, Department of Social Sciences View citations (5)
35. Methodological Report on Kaul and Wolf's Working Papers on the Effect of Plain Packaging on Smoking Prevalence in Australia and the Criticism Raised by OxyRomandie
    University of Bern Social Sciences Working Papers, University of Bern, Department of Social Sciences View citations (1)

2014

36. A new command for plotting regression coefficients and other estimates
    German Stata Users' Group Meetings 2014, Stata Users Group View citations (47)
    Also in United Kingdom Stata Users' Group Meetings 2014, Stata Users Group (2014) View citations (47)
37. A new methodological approach for studying intergenerational mobility with an application to Swiss data
    University of Bern Social Sciences Working Papers, University of Bern, Department of Social Sciences View citations (2)
38. Online Survey on "Exams and Written Papers". Documentation
    University of Bern Social Sciences Working Papers, University of Bern, Department of Social Sciences View citations (1)
39. Sensitive Questions in Online Surveys: An Experimental Evaluation of the Randomized Response Technique and the Crosswise Model
    University of Bern Social Sciences Working Papers, University of Bern, Department of Social Sciences View citations (6)

2013

40. Predictive Margins and Marginal Effects in Stata
    German Stata Users' Group Meetings 2013, Stata Users Group View citations (7)

2012

41. Robust regression in Stata
    German Stata Users' Group Meetings 2012, Stata Users Group

2011

42. Plagiarism in student papers and cheating in student exams: Results from surveys using special techniques for sensitive questions
    United Kingdom Stata Users' Group Meetings 2011, Stata Users Group
43. Plagiarism in student papers and cheating on exams: Results from surveys using special techniques for sensitive questions
    German Stata Users' Group Meetings 2011, Stata Users Group

2010

44. Benford's Law and Fraud Detection. Facts and Legends
    ETH Zurich Sociology Working Papers, ETH Zurich, Chair of Sociology View citations (12)
    See also Journal Article in German Economic Review (2010)
45. Heterogeneous treatment-effect analysis
    German Stata Users' Group Meetings 2010, Stata Users Group View citations (7)

2009

46. Creating LaTeX documents from within Stata
    German Stata Users' Group Meetings 2009, Stata Users Group
47. Output processing and automatic reporting with Stata
    Italian Stata Users' Group Meetings 2009, Stata Users Group
48. Recent developments in output processing
    United Kingdom Stata Users' Group Meetings 2009, Stata Users Group

2008

49. A Stata implementation of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition
    ETH Zurich Sociology Working Papers, ETH Zurich, Chair of Sociology View citations (152)
    See also Software Item (2023)
50. Relative distribution methods in Stata
    German Stata Users' Group Meetings 2008, Stata Users Group View citations (3)
51. Sensitive Questions in Online Surveys: Experimental Results for the Randomized Response Technique (RRT) and the Unmatched Count Technique (UCT)
    ETH Zurich Sociology Working Papers, ETH Zurich, Chair of Sociology View citations (12)
    See also Journal Article in Sociological Methods & Research (2011)

2007

52. Adolists: A New Concept for Stata
    North American Stata Users' Group Meetings 2007, Stata Users Group
    Also in United Kingdom Stata Users' Group Meetings 2007, Stata Users Group (2007)
53. From estimation output to document tables: a long way made short
    North American Stata Users' Group Meetings 2007, Stata Users Group
54. Making regression tables simplified
    German Stata Users' Group Meetings 2007, Stata Users Group View citations (34)
    See also Journal Article in Stata Journal (2007)
55. Trust and Reputation in Internet Auctions
    ETH Zurich Sociology Working Papers, ETH Zurich, Chair of Sociology

2005

56. From regression estimates to document tables: output formatting using estout
    United Kingdom Stata Users' Group Meetings 2005, Stata Users Group
57. Standard Errors for the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition
    German Stata Users' Group Meetings 2005, Stata Users Group View citations (42)

2004

58. Tabulation of multiple response sets, revisited
    German Stata Users' Group Meetings 2004, Stata Users Group
59. Tabulation of multiple responses
    United Kingdom Stata Users' Group Meetings 2004, Stata Users Group
    See also Journal Article in Stata Journal (2005)

Journal Articles

2021

1. Relative distribution analysis in Stata
   Stata Journal, 2021, 21, (4), 885-951
   See also Working Paper (2021)

2019

2. Review of William Gould’s The Mata Book: A Book for Serious Programmers and Those Who Want to Be
   Stata Journal, 2019, 19, (3), 734-737

2018

3. Color palettes for Stata graphics
   Stata Journal, 2018, 18, (4), 765-785 View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper (2018)
4. Customizing Stata graphs made easy (part 1)
   Stata Journal, 2018, 18, (3), 491-502 View citations (2)
5. Customizing Stata graphs made easy (part 2)
   Stata Journal, 2018, 18, (4), 786-802 View citations (2)
6. More is not always better: An experimental individual-level validation of the randomized response technique and the crosswise model
   PLOS ONE, 2018, 13, (8), 1-22 View citations (12)
   See also Working Paper (2016)

2017

7. Creating HTML or Markdown documents from within Stata using webdoc
   Stata Journal, 2017, 17, (1), 3-38 View citations (4)
   See also Working Paper (2017)

2016

8. Assessing inequality using percentile shares
   Stata Journal, 2016, 16, (2), 264-300 View citations (9)
   See also Working Paper (2016)
9. Creating LaTeX documents from within Stata using texdoc
   Stata Journal, 2016, 16, (2), 245-263 View citations (4)
   See also Working Paper (2016)
10. Estimating Lorenz and concentration curves
    Stata Journal, 2016, 16, (4), 837-866 View citations (16)

2015

11. A note on adding objects to an existing twoway graph
    Stata Journal, 2015, 15, (3), 751-755
12. Stata tip 122: Variable bar widths in two-way graphs
    Stata Journal, 2015, 15, (1), 316-318

2014

13. Plotting regression coefficients and other estimates
    Stata Journal, 2014, 14, (4), 708-737 View citations (50)

2011

14. A recruitment method to obtain community samples of children for survey research in Switzerland
    International Journal of Public Health, 2011, 56, (3), 353-356 View citations (1)
15. Plagiarism in Student Papers: Prevalence Estimates Using Special Techniques for Sensitive Questions
    Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik), 2011, 231, (5-6), 749-760 View citations (6)
16. Sensitive Questions in Online Surveys: Experimental Results for the Randomized Response Technique (RRT) and the Unmatched Count Technique (UCT)
    Sociological Methods & Research, 2011, 40, (1), 169-193 View citations (18)
    See also Working Paper (2008)

2010

17. Benford's Law and Fraud Detection: Facts and Legends
    German Economic Review, 2010, 11, (3), 397-401 View citations (9)
    Also in German Economic Review, 2010, 11, (3), 397-401 (2010) View citations (5)
    See also Working Paper (2010)
18. Tabulating SPost results using estout and esttab
    Stata Journal, 2010, 10, (1), 46-60 View citations (2)

2008

19. The Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition for linear regression models
    Stata Journal, 2008, 8, (4), 453-479 View citations (613)

2007

20. Making regression tables simplified
    Stata Journal, 2007, 7, (2), 227-244 View citations (35)
    See also Working Paper (2007)
21. Stata tip 44: Get a handle on your sample
    Stata Journal, 2007, 7, (2), 266-267

2005

22. Making regression tables from stored estimates
    Stata Journal, 2005, 5, (3), 288-308 View citations (17)
23. Tabulation of multiple responses
    Stata Journal, 2005, 5, (1), 93-122 View citations (3)
    See also Working Paper (2004)

2004

24. Stata tip 8: Splitting time-span records with categorical time-varying covariates
    Stata Journal, 2004, 4, (2), 221-222 View citations (1)
25. The Use of New Technology and Occupational Mobility: An Event History Analysis of the Swiss Labor Market
    Schmollers Jahrbuch : Journal of Applied Social Science Studies / Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, 2004, 124, (2), 257-282

Chapters

2005

1. The Erosion of Regular Work: An Analysis of the Structural Changes in the Swiss and German Labour Markets
   Palgrave Macmillan View citations (1)

Software Items

2023

1. COEFPLOT: Stata module to plot regression coefficients and other results
   Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper (2017)
2. DSTAT: Stata module to compute summary statistics and distribution functions including standard errors and optional covariate balancing
   Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
3. ESTOUT: Stata module to make regression tables
   Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics View citations (1)
4. FAIRLIE: Stata module to generate nonlinear decomposition of binary outcome differentials
   Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics View citations (13)
5. IPWLOGIT: Stata module to fit marginal logistic regression by inverse probability weighting
   Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
6. LNMOR: Stata module to compute marginal odds ratios after model estimation
   Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
7. OAXACA: Stata module to compute the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition
   Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper (2008)
8. RIFLOGIT: Stata module to fit unconditional logistic regression
   Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
9. VIOLINPLOT: Stata module to draw violin plots
   Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2022

10. COLRSPACE: Stata module providing a class-based color management system in Mata
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
11. EBALFIT: Stata module to perform entropy balancing
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
12. ESTWRITE: Stata module to store estimation results on disk
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
13. MOREMATA: Stata module (Mata) to provide various functions
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics View citations (1)
14. PALETTES: Stata module to provide color palettes, symbol palettes, and line pattern palettes
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
15. RELDIST: Stata module for relative distribution analysis
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
16. ROBMV: Stata module for robust multivariate estimation of location and covariance
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
17. ROBREG: Stata module providing robust regression estimators
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
18. STTEX: Stata module to integrate Stata results into a LaTeX document
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2021

19. ADDPLOT: Stata module to add twoway plot objects to an existing twoway graph
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
20. DIGDIS: Stata module to analyze the distribution of digits
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
21. FRE: Stata module to display one-way frequency table
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
22. HEATPLOT: Stata module to create heat plots and hexagon plots
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
23. MGOF: Stata module to perform goodness-of-fit tests for multinomial data
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
    See also Multinomial goodness-of-fit: large sample tests with survey design correction and exact tests for small samples, ETH Zurich Sociology Working Papers, ETH Zurich, Chair of Sociology View citations (6)
24. ROBREG10: Stata module providing robust regression estimators
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics View citations (5)
25. XTROBREG: Stata module providing pairwise-differences and first-differences robust regression estimators
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2020

26. GRSTYLE: Stata module to customize the overall look of graphs
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
27. GSAMPLE: Stata module to draw a random sample
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
28. ISCOGEN: Stata module to translate ISCO codes
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
29. KMATCH: Stata module module for multivariate-distance and propensity-score matching, including entropy balancing, inverse probability weighting, (coarsened) exact matching, and regression adjustment
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
30. MRTAB: Stata module to compute one- and two-way tables of multiple responses
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
31. ROBSTAT: Stata module to compute robust univariate statistics
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
32. UDIFF: Stata module to estimate the generalized unidiff model for individual-level data
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2019

33. ROBBOX: Stata module to compute generalized box plots
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
34. WEBDOC: Stata module to create a HTML or Markdown document including Stata output
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2018

35. LORENZ: Stata module to estimate and display Lorenz curves and concentration curves
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
36. PSHARE: Stata module to compute and graph percentile shares
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
37. TEXDOC: Stata module to create a LaTeX document including Stata output
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2017

38. CENTER: Stata module to center (or standardize) variables
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2015

39. EREPOST: Stata module to repost the estimation results
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2014

40. HTE: Stata module to perform heterogeneous treatment effect analysis
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2013

41. PANELS: Stata module to count panels and apply a command to panel units
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2011

42. RRLOGIT: Stata module to estimate logistic regression for randomized response data
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics View citations (2)
43. RRREG: Stata module to estimate linear probability model for randomized response data
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics View citations (1)

2009

44. LOGITCPRPLOT: Stata module to graph component-plus-residual plot for logistic regression
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
45. OAXACA9: Stata module to compute the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
46. PSPLINE: Stata module providing a penalized spline scatterplot smoother based on linear mixed model technology
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics View citations (1)
47. SAVERESULTS: Stata module to save output from a command in a file on disk
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
48. TR: Stata module providing prefix command to trace program execution
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
49. VIEWRESULTS: Stata module to display results of a command in the Viewer
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2008

50. CPRPLOT2: Stata module to graph component-plus-residual plots for transformed regressors
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
51. JMPIERCE2: Stata module to compute trend decomposition of outcome differentials
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics View citations (1)
52. KDENS: Stata module for univariate kernel density estimation
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics View citations (4)
53. NLCHECK: Stata module to check linearity assumption after model estimation
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
54. OAXACA8: Stata module to compute decompositions of outcome differentials
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
55. SPLITVALLABELS: Stata module to split up value labels for multi-line graph labelling
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
56. TABLETUTORIAL: Stata module to provide tutorial on automated table generation and reporting with Stata
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
57. VALUESOF: Stata module to return the contents of a variable in a macro
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2007

58. ADOLIST: Stata module to manage lists of ado packages
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
59. ANOGI: Stata module to generate Analysis of Gini
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
60. LABELSOF: Stata module to obtain a list of labeled values
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
61. MARKTOUSE: Stata module to mark the observations to be used
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2006

62. DEVCON: Stata module to apply the deviation contrast transform to estimation results
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics View citations (1)
63. JMPIERCE: Stata module to perform Juhn-Murphy-Pierce decomposition
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
64. SMITHWELCH: Stata module to compute trend decomposition of outcome differentials
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
65. SUPCLUST: Stata module to build superordinate categories
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics View citations (1)

2005

66. AVPLOTS4: Stata module to graph added-variable plots for specified regressors in a single image
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
67. CPRPLOTS: Stata module to graph (augmented) component-plus-residual plots in a single image
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
68. DECOMPOSE: Stata module to compute decompositions of wage differentials
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics View citations (5)
69. DUNCAN: Stata module to calculate dissimilarity index
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
70. ERET2: Stata module to save results in e()
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
71. ESTOUT1: Stata module to export estimation results from estimates table
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
72. INVCDF: Stata module to invert the cumulative distribution function
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
73. MGEN: Stata module to apply generate to a matrix
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
74. RELRANK: Stata module to generate relative data (grade transformation)
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
75. SHUFFLE8: Stata module to shuffle a list
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
76. SHUFFLE: Stata module to shuffle a list
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2004

77. ALPHAWGT: Stata module to compute Cronbach's alpha for weighted data
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
78. COCHRAN: Stata module to test for equality of proportions in matched samples (Cochran's Q)
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
79. FVIEW: Stata module to find and view a file
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
80. MAT2TXT: Stata module to write matrix to ASCII file
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
81. SORTLISTBY: Stata module to sort by random or by ancillary numlist
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
82. WGTTEST: Stata module to test the impact of sampling weights in regression analysis
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics