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Austin Nichols

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First Name:Austin
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Last Name:Nichols
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RePEc Short-ID:pni54
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http://www.umich.edu/~nicholsa
Twitter: @austnnchols
Terminal Degree:2004 Economics Department; University of Michigan (from RePEc Genealogy)

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Seattle, WA

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Working papers

  1. Jill Horwitz & Austin Nichols & Carrie H. Colla & David M. Cutler, 2024. "Technology Regulation Reconsidered: The Effects of Certificate of Need Policies on the Quantity and Quality of Diagnostic Imaging," NBER Working Papers 32143, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  2. Austin Nichols, 2021. "One weird trick for better inference in experimental designs," 2021 Stata Conference 9, Stata Users Group.
  3. Austin Nichols, 2019. "Unbiased IV in Stata," 2019 Stata Conference 44, Stata Users Group.
  4. Austin Nichols & Andrew Goodman-Bacon & Thomas Goldring, 2019. "Bacon decomposition for understanding differences-in-differences with variation in treatment timing," 2019 Stata Conference 46, Stata Users Group.
  5. Austin Nichols, 2018. "Implementing machine learning methods in Stata," London Stata Conference 2018 08, Stata Users Group.
  6. Austin Nichols & Linden McBride, 2017. "Propensity Scores and Causal Inference Using Machine Learning Methods," 2017 Stata Conference 13, Stata Users Group.
  7. Jill R. Horwitz & Charleen Hsuan & Austin Nichols, 2017. "The Role of Hospital and Market Characteristics in Invasive Cardiac Service Diffusion," NBER Working Papers 23530, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  8. Mcbride,Linden & Nichols,Austin, 2016. "Retooling poverty targeting using out-of-sample validation and machine learning," Policy Research Working Paper Series 7849, The World Bank.
  9. Nichols, Austin & Rothstein, Jesse, 2015. "The Earned Income Tax Credit," Department of Economics, Working Paper Series qt6w2736gk, Department of Economics, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley.
  10. Austin Nichols & Jesse Rothstein, 2015. "The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)," NBER Working Papers 21211, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  11. Linden McBride & Austin Nichols, 2014. "Classification using Random Forests in Stata and R," 2014 Stata Conference 10, Stata Users Group.
  12. Austin Nichols & Lucie Schmidt & Purvi Sevak, 2014. "Economic Conditions and SSI Applications," Working Papers wp318, University of Michigan, Michigan Retirement Research Center.
  13. Austin Nichols, 2014. "Measuring Mobility," 2014 Stata Conference 11, Stata Users Group.
  14. Stephan Lindner & Austin Nichols, 2012. "The Impact of Temporary Assistance Programs on Disability Rolls and Re-Employment," Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College wp2012-2, Center for Retirement Research, revised Jan 2012.
  15. Stuart Craig & Jacob S. Hacker & Gregory Huber & Austin Nichols & Philipp Rehm & Mark Schlesinger & Robert G. Valletta, 2012. "The Economic Security Index: a new measure for research and policy analysis," Working Paper Series 2012-21, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
  16. Austin Nichols, 2011. "Causal inference for binary regression with observational data," CHI11 Stata Conference 6, Stata Users Group.
  17. Melissa M. Favreault & Austin Nichols, 2011. "Immigrant Diversity and Social Security: Recent Patterns and Future Prospects," Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College wp2011-8, Center for Retirement Research, revised May 2011.
  18. Jill R. Horwitz & Austin Nichols, 2011. "Rural Hospital Ownership: Medical Service Provision, Market Mix, and Spillover Effects," NBER Working Papers 16926, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  19. Austin Nichols, 2010. "Regression for nonnegative skewed dependent variables," BOS10 Stata Conference 2, Stata Users Group.
  20. Christopher F Baum & Austin Nichols & Mark E Schaffer, 2010. "Evaluating one-way and two-way cluster-robust covariance matrix estimates," BOS10 Stata Conference 11, Stata Users Group.
  21. Austin Nichols, 2009. "Causal inference," DC09 Stata Conference 8, Stata Users Group.
  22. Austin Nichols, 2009. "Causal inference with observational data: Regression discontinuity and other methods in Stata," German Stata Users' Group Meetings 2009 02, Stata Users Group.
  23. Austin Nichols & Melissa M. Favreault, 2008. "The Impact of Changing Earnings Volatility on Retirement Wealth," Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College wp2008-14, Center for Retirement Research, revised Dec 2008.
  24. Austin Nichols, 2008. "GMM estimation in Mata," Summer North American Stata Users' Group Meetings 2008 1, Stata Users Group, revised 28 Aug 2008.
  25. NICHOLS Austin, 2008. "Trends in Income Inequality, Volatility and Mobility Risk," IRISS Working Paper Series 2008-10, IRISS at CEPS/INSTEAD.
  26. Jill R. Horwitz & Austin Nichols, 2007. "What Do Nonprofits Maximize? Nonprofit Hospital Service Provision and Market Ownership Mix," NBER Working Papers 13246, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  27. Austin Nichols, 2007. "Causal inference with observational data: Regression Discontinuity and related methods in Stata," North American Stata Users' Group Meetings 2007 2, Stata Users Group.
  28. Austin Nichols & Mark E Schaffer, 2007. "Clustered standard errors in Stata," United Kingdom Stata Users' Group Meetings 2007 07, Stata Users Group.
  29. Austin Nichols, 2006. "Weak Instruments: An Overview and New Techniques," North American Stata Users' Group Meetings 2006 3, Stata Users Group.
  30. Timothy Waidman & John Bound & Austin Nichols, 2003. "Disability Benefits as Social Insurance: Tradeoffs Between Screening Stringency and Benefit Generosity in Optimal Program Design," Working Papers wp042, University of Michigan, Michigan Retirement Research Center.
  31. John Bound & Julie Berry Cullen & Austin Nichols & Lucie Schmidt, 2002. "The Welfare Implications of Increasing DI Benefit Generosity," Working Papers wp024, University of Michigan, Michigan Retirement Research Center.
  32. John Bound & Julie Berry Cullen & Austin Nichols & Lucie Schmidt, 2002. "The Welfare Implications of Increasing Disability Insurance Benefit Generosity," NBER Working Papers 9155, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  33. John Bound & Richard Burkhauser & Austin Nichols, 2001. "Tracking the Household Income of SSDI and SSI Applicants," Working Papers wp009, University of Michigan, Michigan Retirement Research Center.
  34. Daniel Gubits & David Stapleton & Stephen Bell & Michelle Wood & Denise Hoffman & Sarah Croake & David R. Mann & Judy Geyer & David Greenberg & Austin Nichols & Andrew McGuirk & Meg Carroll & Utsav Ka, "undated". "BOND Implementation and Evaluation: Final Evaluation Report, Volume 2: Technical Appendices," Mathematica Policy Research Reports 74f9419946684214848d5336e, Mathematica Policy Research.
  35. Daniel Gubits & David Stapleton & Stephen Bell & Michelle Wood & Denise Hoffman & Sarah Croake & David R. Mann & Judy Geyer & David Greenberg & Austin Nichols & Andrew McGuirk & Meg Carroll & Utsav Ka, "undated". "BOND Implementation and Evaluation: Final Evaluation Report, Volume 1," Mathematica Policy Research Reports fac39cd85b944c528e7acbb5d, Mathematica Policy Research.
  36. Austin Nichols & Lucie Schmidt & Purvi Sevak, "undated". "Economic Conditions and Supplemental Security Income Application," Mathematica Policy Research Reports 90a348ad9fd7478bab51a7d6a, Mathematica Policy Research.

Articles

  1. Katie M. Jajtner & Sophie Mitra & Christine Fountain & Austin Nichols, 2020. "Rising Income Inequality Through a Disability Lens: Trends in the United States 1981–2018," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 151(1), pages 81-114, August.
  2. Robert B. Olsen & Stephen H. Bell & Austin Nichols, 2018. "Using Preferred Applicant Random Assignment (PARA) to Reduce Randomization Bias in Randomized Trials of Discretionary Programs," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 37(1), pages 167-180, January.
  3. Jill R. Horwitz & Charleen Hsuan & Austin Nichols, 2018. "The Role of Hospital and Market Characteristics in Invasive Cardiac Service Diffusion," Review of Industrial Organization, Springer;The Industrial Organization Society, vol. 53(1), pages 81-115, August.
  4. Linden McBride & Austin Nichols, 2018. "Retooling Poverty Targeting Using Out-of-Sample Validation and Machine Learning," The World Bank Economic Review, World Bank, vol. 32(3), pages 531-550.
  5. Austin Nichols & Philipp Rehm, 2014. "Income Risk in 30 Countries," Review of Income and Wealth, International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, vol. 60(S1), pages 98-116, May.
  6. Jacob S. Hacker & Gregory A. Huber & Austin Nichols & Philipp Rehm & Mark Schlesinger & Rob Valletta & Stuart Craig, 2014. "The Economic Security Index: A New Measure for Research and Policy Analysis," Review of Income and Wealth, International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, vol. 60(S1), pages 5-32, May.
  7. Horwitz, Jill R. & Nichols, Austin, 2009. "Hospital ownership and medical services: Market mix, spillover effects, and nonprofit objectives," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 28(5), pages 924-937, September.
  8. Austin Nichols, 2008. "Erratum and discussion of propensity-score reweighting," Stata Journal, StataCorp LP, vol. 8(4), pages 532-539, December.
  9. Austin Nichols, 2007. "Review of An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata by Baum," Stata Journal, StataCorp LP, vol. 7(1), pages 131-136, February.
  10. Austin Nichols, 2007. "Causal inference with observational data," Stata Journal, StataCorp LP, vol. 7(4), pages 507-541, December.
  11. Nada Eissa & Austin Nichols, 2005. "Tax-Transfer Policy and Labor-Market Outcomes," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 95(2), pages 88-93, May.
  12. Bound, John & Cullen, Julie Berry & Nichols, Austin & Schmidt, Lucie, 2004. "The welfare implications of increasing disability insurance benefit generosity," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 88(12), pages 2487-2514, December.

Software components

  1. Austin Nichols, 2022. "WORDY: Stata module to play a silly word game and show your guesses on a Stata graph," Statistical Software Components S459044, Boston College Department of Economics, revised 28 Feb 2022.
  2. Austin Nichols, 2019. "AANIV: Stata module to compute unbiased IV regression," Statistical Software Components S458664, Boston College Department of Economics, revised 24 Feb 2021.
  3. Andrew Goodman-Bacon & Thomas Goldring & Austin Nichols, 2019. "BACONDECOMP: Stata module to perform a Bacon decomposition of difference-in-differences estimation," Statistical Software Components S458676, Boston College Department of Economics, revised 21 Sep 2022.
  4. Austin Nichols, 2018. "PFS: Stata module to predict Financial Skill scale scores from CFPB survey instrument," Statistical Software Components S458479, Boston College Department of Economics.
  5. Austin Nichols, 2017. "PFWB: Stata module to predict Financial Well-Being scale scores from CFPB survey instrument," Statistical Software Components S458353, Boston College Department of Economics.
  6. Austin Nichols, 2017. "BMP2DTA: Stata module to convert bitmap files to Stata datasets," Statistical Software Components S458379, Boston College Department of Economics.
  7. Austin Nichols, 2012. "SPROPER: Stata module to get proper case for foreign names in variables," Statistical Software Components S457448, Boston College Department of Economics.
  8. Austin Nichols, 2011. "LABMATCH: Stata module to find observations by label values," Statistical Software Components S457263, Boston College Department of Economics.
  9. Austin Nichols, 2011. "HMAP: Stata module to graph a heatmap," Statistical Software Components S457256, Boston College Department of Economics.
  10. Austin Nichols, 2010. "GBGFIT: Stata module to fit a Generalized Beta (Type 2) distribution to grouped data via ML," Statistical Software Components S457132, Boston College Department of Economics.
  11. Austin Nichols, 2010. "SMGFIT: Stata module to fit a Singh-Maddala distribution to grouped data via ML," Statistical Software Components S457131, Boston College Department of Economics.
  12. Austin Nichols, 2010. "PNG2RTF: Stata module to include PNG graphics in RTF documents," Statistical Software Components S457192, Boston College Department of Economics, revised 11 Nov 2010.
  13. Austin Nichols, 2009. "TDDENS: Stata module to estimate and graph bivariate density with heat map," Statistical Software Components S457076, Boston College Department of Economics, revised 01 Apr 2011.
  14. Austin Nichols, 2009. "CNORMP: Stata module to evaluate censored normal distribution," Statistical Software Components S457087, Boston College Department of Economics.
  15. Austin Nichols, 2009. "FIND: Stata module to find matching strings across files in the current directory," Statistical Software Components S457038, Boston College Department of Economics.
  16. Austin Nichols, 2009. "MATNAMES: Stata module to return matrix row and column names," Statistical Software Components S457037, Boston College Department of Economics, revised 12 Jul 2009.
  17. Austin Nichols, 2008. "DDF2DCT: Stata module to facilitate infiling US Government data distributed with a DDF," Statistical Software Components S456910, Boston College Department of Economics, revised 19 Mar 2008.
  18. Austin Nichols, 2008. "LOCPR: Stata module for semi-parametric estimation," Statistical Software Components S456918, Boston College Department of Economics, revised 07 May 2008.
  19. Austin Nichols, 2008. "BYHIST: Stata module to produce interlaced histograms," Statistical Software Components S456982, Boston College Department of Economics, revised 20 Apr 2010.
  20. Nick Winter & Austin Nichols, 2008. "VIOPLOT: Stata module to produce violin plots with current graphics," Statistical Software Components S456902, Boston College Department of Economics, revised 17 Jun 2012.
  21. Austin Nichols, 2008. "BIHIST: Stata module to produce bihistograms," Statistical Software Components S456983, Boston College Department of Economics, revised 20 Apr 2010.
  22. Austin Nichols, 2008. "VLC: Stata module to compare value labels across datasets," Statistical Software Components S456907, Boston College Department of Economics, revised 23 Feb 2010.
  23. Austin Nichols, 2008. "OUTFIXT: Stata module to write fixed-format text file," Statistical Software Components S456984, Boston College Department of Economics, revised 09 Dec 2008.
  24. Austin Nichols, 2008. "FESE: Stata module to calculate standard errors for fixed effects," Statistical Software Components S456914, Boston College Department of Economics, revised 05 Sep 2008.
  25. Austin Nichols, 2008. "CPIGEN: Stata module to add US CPI series to current dataset," Statistical Software Components S456909, Boston College Department of Economics, revised 05 Sep 2013.
  26. Austin Nichols, 2008. "RENSHEET: Stata module to edit variable names and labels," Statistical Software Components S456908, Boston College Department of Economics.
  27. Austin Nichols, 2007. "IVPOIS: Stata module to estimate an instrumental variables Poisson regression via GMM," Statistical Software Components S456890, Boston College Department of Economics, revised 03 Sep 2008.
  28. Austin Nichols, 2007. "RD: Stata module for regression discontinuity estimation," Statistical Software Components S456888, Boston College Department of Economics, revised 30 Sep 2016.
  29. Austin Nichols, 2003. "TABSTATMAT: Stata module to save matrices saved by tabstat to single named matrix," Statistical Software Components S435001, Boston College Department of Economics, revised 27 Jul 2011.
  30. Austin Nichols, 2003. "VINCENTY: Stata module to calculate distances on the Earth's surface," Statistical Software Components S456815, Boston College Department of Economics, revised 16 Feb 2007.

Chapters

  1. Austin Nichols & Jesse Rothstein, 2015. "The Earned Income Tax Credit," NBER Chapters, in: Economics of Means-Tested Transfer Programs in the United States, Volume 1, pages 137-218, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  2. Stephan Lindner & Austin Nichols, 2014. "The Impact of Temporary Assistance Programs on Disability Rolls and Re-employment," Research in Labor Economics, in: Safety Nets and Benefit Dependence, volume 39, pages 219-258, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
  3. John Bound & Richard V Burkhauser & Austin Nichols, 2003. "Tracking The Household Income Of Ssdi And Ssi Applicants," Research in Labor Economics, in: Worker Well-Being and Public Policy, pages 113-158, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

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  1. NEP-HEA: Health Economics (4) 2005-02-13 2011-04-16 2017-07-02 2024-03-18
  2. NEP-BIG: Big Data (2) 2017-08-13 2018-10-08
  3. NEP-CMP: Computational Economics (2) 2017-08-13 2018-10-08
  4. NEP-COM: Industrial Competition (2) 2007-07-20 2017-07-02
  5. NEP-ECM: Econometrics (2) 2010-07-31 2017-08-13
  6. NEP-EXP: Experimental Economics (2) 2019-08-26 2019-09-30
  7. NEP-IAS: Insurance Economics (2) 2002-09-11 2005-02-13
  8. NEP-PUB: Public Finance (2) 2015-06-05 2015-09-26
  9. NEP-DCM: Discrete Choice Models (1) 2014-09-05
  10. NEP-LAB: Labour Economics (1) 2002-09-11
  11. NEP-LMA: Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages (1) 2015-06-05
  12. NEP-MIC: Microeconomics (1) 2002-10-07
  13. NEP-PBE: Public Economics (1) 2015-09-26
  14. NEP-PKE: Post Keynesian Economics (1) 2012-11-11
  15. NEP-SOC: Social Norms and Social Capital (1) 2007-07-20
  16. NEP-UPT: Utility Models and Prospect Theory (1) 2008-12-01
  17. NEP-URE: Urban and Real Estate Economics (1) 2014-09-05

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