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Estimation of a Duration Model in the Presence of Missing Data

Todd Stinebrickner

Western University

The Review of Economics and Statistics 1999

This paper utilizes recent simulation techniques in a two-stage estimation method which is applicable for a wide range of statistical models in the presence of missing data. The first stage of the method provides a way to estimate (and simulate from) the joint distribution of missing variables when the missing variables are continuous, binary, or ordered discrete. The second stage uses the first-stage estimates to “integrate” out the effects of the missing variables and obtain model estimates. The implementation of the method in this paper allows theoretically important, partially missing wage and school characteristic variables-which are not necessarily independently determined-to be included in a proportional hazard model of teacher attrition.

DOI
10.1162/003465399558283
Volume
81 (3)
Pages
529-542
Language
en
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