Several methods have been proposed for partially or point identifying the average treatment
effect (ATE) using instrumental variable (IV) type assumptions. The descriptions of these …

The literature assessing the efficacy of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
(SNAP), formerly known as the Food Stamp Program, has long puzzled over positive …

Children in households reporting the receipt of free or reduced-price school meals through
the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) are more likely to have negative health …

Previous research has estimated that food insecure children are more likely to suffer from a
wide array of negative health outcomes than food secure children, leading many to claim …

Measurement error in health and disability status has been widely accepted as a central
problem in social science research. Long-standing debates about the prevalence of …

The Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Program is considered a crucial component of the
social safety net in the United States, yet there is limited supporting evidence on the effects …

People uninsured for any part of 2008 spend about
30billionoutofpocketandreceiveapproximately 56 billion in uncompensated care while …

Robust statistics is concerned with statistical methods that still lead to reliable conclusions if
an ideal model is only approximately true. More recently, the theory of imprecise …

Econometric analyses of treatment response often use instrumental variable (IV)
assumptions to identify treatment effects. The traditional IV assumption holds that mean …

In Germany, employees are generally obliged to participate in the public health insurance
system, where coverage is universal, co‐payments and deductibles are moderate, and …