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Activity Number: 361
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 9, 2006 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Section on Health Policy Statistics
Abstract - #305102
Title: Forming Better Guesses about Neighborhood Effects on Health
Author(s): Brian Krauth*+
Companies: Simon Fraser University
Address: 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada
Keywords: neighborhood effects ; causation ; epidemiology
Abstract:

A recent stream of econometric research (Altonji, Elder, and Taber 2005, Krauth 2006) uses the statistical relationship among the observed explanatory variables in a regression to generate a plausible guess about the relationship between observed and unobserved variables. The usual assumption of orthogonality between observed and unobserved variables is a special case - i.e., a bad guess. This paper extends this approach to the standard linear omitted variables problem, and demonstrates that this approach may be particularly useful for the measurement of neighborhood effects on health.

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