This paper reviews methods for the estimation of dynamic discrete choice structural models
and discusses related econometric issues. We consider single-agent models, competitive …

This paper develops a learning model of cultural change to investigate why women's labor
force participation (LFP) and attitudes toward women's work both changed dramatically. In …

The increase in female employment and participation rates is one of the most dramatic
changes to have taken place in the economy during the last century. However, while the …

Learning models extend the traditional discrete choice framework by postulating that
consumers have incomplete information about product attributes and that they learn about …

I estimate a dynamic, stochastic model of smoking, expectations, and health that makes
explicit channels through which an individual may learn about the health risks of smoking …

Appropriate birth spacing improves the outcomes of children and mothers, but spacing
intervals are short in sub-Saharan African countries. This paper investigates one of the …

We discuss the past, present and future of the structural approach in empirical
microeconomics, starting with its inception in the 1970s and 1980s. Our focus is on the use …

This paper analyzes the absenteeism and medical care consumption behavior of employed
men and women during an episode of acute illness. An individual's daily optimization …

This paper assesses the link between beliefs about HIV infection and fertility. I develop and
estimate a dynamic discrete-choice life-cycle fertility model in which expectations about life …

We introduce a novel approach to allow for unobserved heterogeneity in two-step structural
estimation strategies for discrete choice dynamic programming models (ie strategies that …