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Bounds in Competing Risks Models and the War on Cancer

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Bo E. Honoré (Department of Economics, Princeton University)
Adriana Lleras-Muney (Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University)
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Competing risks models are fundamentally unidentified. This paper derives bounds for aspects of the underlying distributions under a number of different assumptions. These bounds are then applied to mortality data from the US. We find that trends in cancer show much larger improvements than was previously estimated.

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Paper provided by University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics. Centre for Applied Microeconometrics in its series CAM Working Papers with number 2004-08.

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Date of creation: Apr 2004
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Keywords: Bounds; Competing Risks; Cancer;

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