Does the Food Stamp Program Really Increase Obesity? The Importance of Accounting for Misclassification Errors
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matching estimators; sensitivity analysis; food stamps; obesity;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
- C63 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Computational Techniques
- I10 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2011-02-19 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-CIS-2011-02-19 (Confederation of Independent States)
- NEP-HEA-2011-02-19 (Health Economics)
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