| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w5434 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 5434 |
| The Effect of Maternal Drug Use on Birth Weight: Measurement Error in Binary Variables | |
| Robert Kaestner; Theodore Joyce; Hassan Wehbeh | |
| 发表日期 | 1996 |
| 出版年 | 1996 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper develops a method to correct for non-random measurement error in a binary indicator of illicit drugs. Our results suggest that estimates of the effect of self reported prenatal drug use on birth weight are biased upwards by measurement error -- a finding contrary to predictions of a model of random measurement error. We show that more accurate estimates of the true effect of drug use on birth weight can be obtained by using the predicted probability of falsely reporting drug use. This suggests that out-of-sample information on drug use may improve estimates of the effect of reported drug use in other settings. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w5434 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
| 引用统计 | |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/562892 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Robert Kaestner,Theodore Joyce,Hassan Wehbeh. The Effect of Maternal Drug Use on Birth Weight: Measurement Error in Binary Variables. 1996. |
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| w5434.pdf（319KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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