BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:iCalendar-Ruby BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations DESCRIPTION:The Economics Seminar Series presents Bhavna Rai discussing "Im puting missing covariate values in nonlinear models" on Friday\, Oct. 23\, from 3 to 4:15 p.m.\n\nRai is a graduate student in the Department of Econ omics at Michigan State University.\n\nFor more information about the Econo mics Seminars\, contact Dr. Roberto Duncan.\n\nAbstract: I study the proble m of missing covariate values in nonlinear models with continuous or discre te covariates. In order to use the information in the incomplete cases\, I propose an inverse probability weighted one-step imputation estimator that provides gains in efficiency relative to the complete cases estimator using a reduced form for the outcome in terms of the always-observed covariates. Unlike the two-step imputation and dummy variable methods commonly used in empirical work\, my estimator is consistent for a wide class of nonlinear models. It relies only on the commonly used "missing at random" assumption\ , and provides a specification test for the resulting restrictions. I show how the results apply to nonlinear models for fractional and nonnegative re sponses. DTEND:20201023T201500Z DTSTAMP:20240921T044353Z DTSTART:20201023T190000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Economics Seminar | Imputing Missing Covariate Values in Nonlinear Models\, Oct. 23 UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_34536756220935 URL:https://calendar.ohio.edu/event/economics_seminar_bhavna_rai_oct_23 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR