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Working Papers

2017

1. Propensity Scores and Causal Inference Using Machine Learning Methods
   2017 Stata Conference, Stata Users Group View citations (1)

2016

2. Retooling poverty targeting using out-of-sample validation and machine learning
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (12)

2015

3. The Earned Income Tax Credit
   Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, Working Paper Series, Institute of Industrial Relations, UC Berkeley View citations (51)
   See also Chapter (2015)
4. The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (34)

2014

5. Classification using Random Forests in Stata and R
   2014 Stata Conference, Stata Users Group
6. Economic Conditions and SSI Applications
   Working Papers, University of Michigan, Michigan Retirement Research Center View citations (1)
7. Measuring Mobility
   2014 Stata Conference, Stata Users Group

2012

8. The Economic Security Index: A New Measure for Research and Policy Analysis
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (10)
   Also in Working Paper Series, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (2012) View citations (5)
   See also Journal Article in Review of Income and Wealth (2014)
9. The Impact of Temporary Assistance Programs on Disability Rolls and Re-Employment
   Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research View citations (15)

2011

10. Causal inference for binary regression with observational data
    CHI11 Stata Conference, Stata Users Group View citations (21)
11. Evaluating one-way and two-way cluster–robust covariance matrix estimates
    German Stata Users' Group Meetings 2011, Stata Users Group View citations (4)
    Also in United Kingdom Stata Users' Group Meetings 2010, Stata Users Group (2010) View citations (6)
    BOS10 Stata Conference, Stata Users Group (2010) View citations (5)
12. Immigrant Diversity and Social Security: Recent Patterns and Future Prospects
    Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research View citations (6)
13. Rural Hospital Ownership: Medical Service Provision, Market Mix, and Spillover Effects
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (4)

2010

14. Regression for nonnegative skewed dependent variables
    BOS10 Stata Conference, Stata Users Group View citations (15)

2009

15. Causal inference
    DC09 Stata Conference, Stata Users Group View citations (19)
16. Causal inference with observational data: Regression discontinuity and other methods in Stata
    German Stata Users' Group Meetings 2009, Stata Users Group View citations (3)

2008

17. GMM estimation in Mata
    Summer North American Stata Users' Group Meetings 2008, Stata Users Group
18. The Impact of Changing Earnings Volatility on Retirement Wealth
    Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research View citations (2)
19. Trends in Income Inequality, Volatility and Mobility Risk
    IRISS Working Paper Series, IRISS at CEPS/INSTEAD View citations (11)

2007

20. Causal inference with observational data: Regression Discontinuity and related methods in Stata
    North American Stata Users' Group Meetings 2007, Stata Users Group View citations (5)
21. Clustered standard errors in Stata
    United Kingdom Stata Users' Group Meetings 2007, Stata Users Group View citations (62)
22. What Do Nonprofits Maximize? Nonprofit Hospital Service Provision and Market Ownership Mix
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (23)

2006

23. Weak Instruments: An Overview and New Techniques
    North American Stata Users' Group Meetings 2006, Stata Users Group View citations (5)

2003

24. Disability Benefits as Social Insurance: Tradeoffs Between Screening Stringency and Benefit Generosity in Optimal Program Design
    Working Papers, University of Michigan, Michigan Retirement Research Center View citations (4)

2002

25. The Welfare Implications of Increasing DI Benefit Generosity
    Working Papers, University of Michigan, Michigan Retirement Research Center View citations (2)
26. The Welfare Implications of Increasing Disability Insurance Benefit Generosity
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)
    Also in Department of Economics Working Papers, Department of Economics, Williams College (2002) View citations (3)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Public Economics (2004)

2001

27. Tracking the Household Income of SSDI and SSI Applicants
    Working Papers, University of Michigan, Michigan Retirement Research Center View citations (26)

Journal Articles

2014

1. Income Risk in 30 Countries
   Review of Income and Wealth, 2014, 60, (S1), S98-S116 View citations (12)
2. The Economic Security Index: A New Measure for Research and Policy Analysis
   Review of Income and Wealth, 2014, 60, (S1), S5-S32 View citations (41)
   See also Working Paper (2012)

2009

3. Hospital ownership and medical services: Market mix, spillover effects, and nonprofit objectives
   Journal of Health Economics, 2009, 28, (5), 924-937 View citations (40)

2008

4. Erratum and discussion of propensity-score reweighting
   Stata Journal, 2008, 8, (4), 532-539 View citations (18)

2007

5. Causal inference with observational data
   Stata Journal, 2007, 7, (4), 507-541 View citations (137)
6. Review of An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata by Baum
   Stata Journal, 2007, 7, (1), 131-136

2005

7. Tax-Transfer Policy and Labor-Market Outcomes
   American Economic Review, 2005, 95, (2), 88-93 View citations (15)

2004

8. The welfare implications of increasing disability insurance benefit generosity
   Journal of Public Economics, 2004, 88, (12), 2487-2514 View citations (35)
   See also Working Paper (2002)

Chapters

2015

1. The Earned Income Tax Credit
   A chapter in Economics of Means-Tested Transfer Programs in the United States, Volume 1, 2015, pp 137-218 View citations (55)
   See also Working Paper (2015)

Software Items

2022

1. BACONDECOMP: Stata module to perform a Bacon decomposition of difference-in-differences estimation
   Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
2. WORDY: Stata module to play a silly word game and show your guesses on a Stata graph
   Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2021

3. AANIV: Stata module to compute unbiased IV regression
   Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2018

4. PFS: Stata module to predict Financial Skill scale scores from CFPB survey instrument
   Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2017

5. BMP2DTA: Stata module to convert bitmap files to Stata datasets
   Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
6. PFWB: Stata module to predict Financial Well-Being scale scores from CFPB survey instrument
   Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2016

7. RD: Stata module for regression discontinuity estimation
   Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics View citations (5)

2013

8. CPIGEN: Stata module to add US CPI series to current dataset
   Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2012

9. SPROPER: Stata module to get proper case for foreign names in variables
   Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
10. VIOPLOT: Stata module to produce violin plots with current graphics
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics View citations (1)

2011

11. HMAP: Stata module to graph a heatmap
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
12. LABMATCH: Stata module to find observations by label values
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
13. TABSTATMAT: Stata module to save matrices saved by tabstat to single named matrix
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
14. TDDENS: Stata module to estimate and graph bivariate density with heat map
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2010

15. BIHIST: Stata module to produce bihistograms
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
16. BYHIST: Stata module to produce interlaced histograms
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
17. DAGFIT: Stata module to fit a Generalized Beta (Type 2) distribution to grouped data via ML
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
    Also in Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics (2010)
18. PNG2RTF: Stata module to include PNG graphics in RTF documents
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
19. SMGFIT: Stata module to fit a Singh-Maddala distribution to grouped data via ML
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
20. VLC: Stata module to compare value labels across datasets
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2009

21. CNORMP: Stata module to evaluate censored normal distribution
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
22. FIND: Stata module to find matching strings across files in the current directory
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
23. MATNAMES: Stata module to return matrix row and column names
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2008

24. DDF2DCT: Stata module to facilitate infiling US Government data distributed with a DDF
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
25. FESE: Stata module to calculate standard errors for fixed effects
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics View citations (3)
26. IVPOIS: Stata module to estimate an instrumental variables Poisson regression via GMM
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics View citations (5)
27. LOCPR: Stata module for semi-parametric estimation
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
28. OUTFIXT: Stata module to write fixed-format text file
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
29. RENSHEET: Stata module to edit variable names and labels
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics

2007

30. VINCENTY: Stata module to calculate distances on the Earth's surface
    Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics View citations (6)