Jerry A Hausman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1456079 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jerry A Hausman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jerry A |
| FAMILY NAME | Hausman |
| SIGNATURE | HAUSMAN J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 237 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Econometrics and Economic Theory in the 20th Century: The Ragnar Frisch Centennial Symposium
Contingent Valuation: From Dubious to Hopeless
Approximately 20 years ago, Peter Diamond and I wrote an article for this journal analyzing contingent valuation methods. At that time Peter's view was that contingent valuation was hopeless, while I was dubious but somewhat more optimistic. But 20 years later, after millions of dollars of largely government-funded research, I have concluded that Peter's earlier position was correct and that contingent valuation is hopeless. In this paper, I sele…
Estimation With Many Instrumental Variables
Using many valid instrumental variables has the potential to improve efficiency but makes the usual inference procedures inaccurate. We give corrected standard errors, an extension of Bekker to nonnormal disturbances, that adjust for many instruments. We find that this adjustment is useful in empirical work, simulations, and in the asymptotic theory. Use of the corrected standard errors in t-ratios leads to an asymptotic approximation order that …
Sources of Bias and Solutions to Bias in the Consumer Price Index
Four sources of bias in the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) have been identified. The most discussed is substitution bias, which creates a second order bias in the CPI. Three other changes besides prices changes create first order effects on a correctly measured cost of living index (COLI). I explain in this paper that a “pure price” based approach of surveying prices to estimate a COLI cannot succeed in solving the 3 problems of first order bias. I …
Mismeasured Variables in Econometric Analysis: Problems from the Right and Problems from the Left
The effect of mismeasured variables in the most straightforward regression analysis with a single regressor variable leads to a least squares estimate that is downward biased in magnitude toward zero. I begin by reviewing classical issues involving mismeasured variables. I then consider three recent developments for mismeasurement econometric models. The first issue involves difficulties in using instrumental variables. A second involves the cons…
Cellular Telephone, New Products, and the CPI
Since their introduction in 1983, cellular telephones' adoption has grown at 25%–35% per year. At year end 1997, about 55 million cellular telephones were in use in the United States. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) did not know that cellular telephones existed, at least in terms of calculating the Consumer Price Index (CPI), until 1998 when they were finally included in the CPI. Omitting cellular telephones from the CPI created a significan…
Misclassification of the dependent variable in a discrete-response setting
Contingent Valuation: Is Some Number Better than No Number
Without market outcomes for comparison, internal consistency tests, particularly adding-up tests, are needed for credibility. When tested, contingent valuation has failed. Proponents find surveys tested poorly done. To the authors' knowledge, no survey has passed these tests. The 'embedding effect' is the similarity of willingness-to-pay responses that theory suggests (and sometimes requires) be different. This problem has long been recognized bu…
Household Behavior and the Tax Reform Act of 1986
President Reagan's May 1985 letter to Congress, accompanying his tax reform proposal, argued that the existing tax system hindered economic growth because "most Americans labor under excessively high tax rates that discourage work and cut drastically into savings." This paper analyzes how the Tax Reform Act of 1986 affects these aspects of household behavior
Errors in variables in panel data
Social Experimentation
Social Experimentation
Social Experimentation
Econometric Models for Count Data with an Application to the Patents-R & D Relationship
This paper focuses on developing and adapting statistical models of counts (nonnegative integers) in the context of panel data and using them to analyze the relationship between patents and R & D expenditures. Since a variety of other economic data come in the form of repeated counts of some individual actions or events, the methodology should have wide applications. The statistical models we develop are applications and generalizations of the Po…
Specification Tests for the Multinomial Logit Model
Assessing the potential demand for electric cars
Panel Data and Unobservable Individual Effects
An important purpose in pooling time-series and cross-section data is to control for individual-specific unobservable effects which may be correlated with other explanatory variables, e.g. latent ability in measuring returns to schooling in earnings equations or managerial ability in measuring returns to scale in firm cost functions. Using instrumental variables and the time-invariant characteristics of the latent variable, we derive: 1. (1) a te…
Individual Discount Rates and the Purchase and Utilization of Energy-Using Durables
This article presents a model of individual behavior in the purchase and utilization of energy-using durables. The tradeoff between capital costs for more energy efficient appliances and operating costs for the appliances is emphasized. Using data on both the purchase and utilization of room air conditioners, the model is applied to a sample of households. The utilization equation indicates a relatively low price elasticity. The purchase equation…
Attrition Bias in Experimental and Panel Data: The Gary Income Maintenance Experiment
A Conditional Probit Model for Qualitative Choice: Discrete Decisions Recognizing Interdependence and Heterogeneous Preferences
Jerry A. Hausman, David A. Wise, A Conditional Probit Model for Qualitative Choice: Discrete Decisions Recognizing Interdependence and Heterogeneous Preferences, Econometrica, Vol. 46, No. 2 (Mar., 1978), pp. 403-426
Specification Tests in Econometrics
Using the result that under the null hypothesis of no misspecification an asymptotically efficient estimator must have zero asymptotic covariance with its difference from a consistent but asymptotically inefficient estimator, specification tests are devised for a number of model specifications in econometrics. Local power is calculated for small departures from the null hypothesis. An instrumental variable test as well as tests for a time series …
The Effect of Taxation on Labor Supply: Evaluating the Gary Negative Income Tax Experiment
A model of labor supply is formulated which takes explicit account of nonlinearities in the budget set which arise because the net, after-tax wage depends on hours worked. These nonlinearities may lead to a convex budget set due to the effect of progressive marginal tax rates, or they may lead to a nonconvex budget set due to the effect of government transfer programs such as AFDC or a negative income tax. The nonlinearities affect both the margi…
Contingent Valuation: Is Some Number Better than No Number
Without market outcomes for comparison, internal consistency tests, particularly adding-up tests, are needed for credibility. When tested, contingent valuation has failed. Proponents find surveys tested poorly done. To the authors' knowledge, no survey has passed these tests. The 'embedding effect' is the similarity of willingness-to-pay responses that theory suggests (and sometimes requires) be different. This problem has long been recognized bu…
The Effect of Taxation on Labor Supply: Evaluating the Gary Negative Income Tax Experiment
A model of labor supply is formulated which takes explicit account of nonlinearities in the budget set which arise because the net, after-tax wage depends on hours worked. These nonlinearities may lead to a convex budget set due to the effect of progressive marginal tax rates, or they may lead to a nonconvex budget set due to the effect of government transfer programs such as AFDC or a negative income tax. The nonlinearities affect both the margi…
Contingent Valuation: From Dubious to Hopeless
Approximately 20 years ago, Peter Diamond and I wrote an article for this journal analyzing contingent valuation methods. At that time Peter's view was that contingent valuation was hopeless, while I was dubious but somewhat more optimistic. But 20 years later, after millions of dollars of largely government-funded research, I have concluded that Peter's earlier position was correct and that contingent valuation is hopeless. In this paper, I sele…
Household Behavior and the Tax Reform Act of 1986
President Reagan's May 1985 letter to Congress, accompanying his tax reform proposal, argued that the existing tax system hindered economic growth because "most Americans labor under excessively high tax rates that discourage work and cut drastically into savings." This paper analyzes how the Tax Reform Act of 1986 affects these aspects of household behavior
Social Experimentation
Social Experimentation
A Conditional Probit Model for Qualitative Choice: Discrete Decisions Recognizing Interdependence and Heterogeneous Preferences
Jerry A. Hausman, David A. Wise, A Conditional Probit Model for Qualitative Choice: Discrete Decisions Recognizing Interdependence and Heterogeneous Preferences, Econometrica, Vol. 46, No. 2 (Mar., 1978), pp. 403-426
Specification Tests in Econometrics
Using the result that under the null hypothesis of no misspecification an asymptotically efficient estimator must have zero asymptotic covariance with its difference from a consistent but asymptotically inefficient estimator, specification tests are devised for a number of model specifications in econometrics. Local power is calculated for small departures from the null hypothesis. An instrumental variable test as well as tests for a time series …
The Effect of Taxation on Labor Supply: Evaluating the Gary Negative Income Tax Experiment
A model of labor supply is formulated which takes explicit account of nonlinearities in the budget set which arise because the net, after-tax wage depends on hours worked. These nonlinearities may lead to a convex budget set due to the effect of progressive marginal tax rates, or they may lead to a nonconvex budget set due to the effect of government transfer programs such as AFDC or a negative income tax. The nonlinearities affect both the margi…
Individual Discount Rates and the Purchase and Utilization of Energy-Using Durables
This article presents a model of individual behavior in the purchase and utilization of energy-using durables. The tradeoff between capital costs for more energy efficient appliances and operating costs for the appliances is emphasized. Using data on both the purchase and utilization of room air conditioners, the model is applied to a sample of households. The utilization equation indicates a relatively low price elasticity. The purchase equation…
Attrition Bias in Experimental and Panel Data: The Gary Income Maintenance Experiment
Assessing the potential demand for electric cars
Panel Data and Unobservable Individual Effects
An important purpose in pooling time-series and cross-section data is to control for individual-specific unobservable effects which may be correlated with other explanatory variables, e.g. latent ability in measuring returns to schooling in earnings equations or managerial ability in measuring returns to scale in firm cost functions. Using instrumental variables and the time-invariant characteristics of the latent variable, we derive: 1. (1) a te…
Econometric Models for Count Data with an Application to the Patents-R & D Relationship
This paper focuses on developing and adapting statistical models of counts (nonnegative integers) in the context of panel data and using them to analyze the relationship between patents and R & D expenditures. Since a variety of other economic data come in the form of repeated counts of some individual actions or events, the methodology should have wide applications. The statistical models we develop are applications and generalizations of the Po…
Specification Tests for the Multinomial Logit Model
Social Experimentation
Errors in variables in panel data
Social Experimentation
Social Experimentation
Household Behavior and the Tax Reform Act of 1986
President Reagan's May 1985 letter to Congress, accompanying his tax reform proposal, argued that the existing tax system hindered economic growth because "most Americans labor under excessively high tax rates that discourage work and cut drastically into savings." This paper analyzes how the Tax Reform Act of 1986 affects these aspects of household behavior
Contingent Valuation: Is Some Number Better than No Number
Without market outcomes for comparison, internal consistency tests, particularly adding-up tests, are needed for credibility. When tested, contingent valuation has failed. Proponents find surveys tested poorly done. To the authors' knowledge, no survey has passed these tests. The 'embedding effect' is the similarity of willingness-to-pay responses that theory suggests (and sometimes requires) be different. This problem has long been recognized bu…
Misclassification of the dependent variable in a discrete-response setting
Cellular Telephone, New Products, and the CPI
Since their introduction in 1983, cellular telephones' adoption has grown at 25%–35% per year. At year end 1997, about 55 million cellular telephones were in use in the United States. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) did not know that cellular telephones existed, at least in terms of calculating the Consumer Price Index (CPI), until 1998 when they were finally included in the CPI. Omitting cellular telephones from the CPI created a significan…
Mismeasured Variables in Econometric Analysis: Problems from the Right and Problems from the Left
The effect of mismeasured variables in the most straightforward regression analysis with a single regressor variable leads to a least squares estimate that is downward biased in magnitude toward zero. I begin by reviewing classical issues involving mismeasured variables. I then consider three recent developments for mismeasurement econometric models. The first issue involves difficulties in using instrumental variables. A second involves the cons…
Sources of Bias and Solutions to Bias in the Consumer Price Index
Four sources of bias in the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) have been identified. The most discussed is substitution bias, which creates a second order bias in the CPI. Three other changes besides prices changes create first order effects on a correctly measured cost of living index (COLI). I explain in this paper that a “pure price” based approach of surveying prices to estimate a COLI cannot succeed in solving the 3 problems of first order bias. I …
Estimation With Many Instrumental Variables
Using many valid instrumental variables has the potential to improve efficiency but makes the usual inference procedures inaccurate. We give corrected standard errors, an extension of Bekker to nonnormal disturbances, that adjust for many instruments. We find that this adjustment is useful in empirical work, simulations, and in the asymptotic theory. Use of the corrected standard errors in t-ratios leads to an asymptotic approximation order that …
Contingent Valuation: From Dubious to Hopeless
Approximately 20 years ago, Peter Diamond and I wrote an article for this journal analyzing contingent valuation methods. At that time Peter's view was that contingent valuation was hopeless, while I was dubious but somewhat more optimistic. But 20 years later, after millions of dollars of largely government-funded research, I have concluded that Peter's earlier position was correct and that contingent valuation is hopeless. In this paper, I sele…
Econometrics and Economic Theory in the 20th Century: The Ragnar Frisch Centennial Symposium
Econometrics (15 works) · Economics (15 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Mathematics (8 works) · Economic and Environmental Valuation (7 works) · Statistics (7 works) · Microeconomics (5 works) · Spatial and Panel Data Analysis (4 works) · Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing (3 works) · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (3 works)