Perils and prospects of using aggregate area level socioeconomic information as a proxy for individual level socioeconomic confounders in instrumental variables regression

Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology

Volumn 12, Issue 2-3, 2012, Pages 119-140

  Hsu, Jesse Yenchih ^a,b   Lorch, Scott A ^b,c   Small, Dylan S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Causal inference; Instrumental variables; Proxy variables; Wald's grouping method

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; INCOME; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLE ANALYSIS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84864662291     PISSN: 13873741     EISSN: 15729400     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10742-012-0095-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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