Identifying the Effect of WIC on Infant Health When Participation is Endogenous and Misreported
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Keywords
Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women; Infants; and Children; WIC; Chil- dren; Treatment Effects; Health Outcomes; Instrumental Variables; Partial Identification; Nonparametric Bounds; Classification Error.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C14 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General
- C21 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models
- I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
- I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEM-2012-04-17 (Demographic Economics)
- NEP-HEA-2012-04-17 (Health Economics)
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