 My PhD dissertation consists of three papers (work still in progress) and covers different areas of micro-econometrics. Part of my research concentrates on the welfare analysis, mainly on the application of stochastic dominance tests to welfare comparison. Using the PACO / CHER data, I analyze inequality in Poland at the change of the millennium.
Recently, I have turned my attention to econometric approaches to latent concepts like trust, ability, liberal attitudes or happiness. Specifically, I investigate the factors contributing to happiness across several European countries (abstract). The applied technique here is the semi-parametric item response theory modeling approach. It could be seen as an alternative to the standard probit / logit or factor analysis techniques.
Together with Alicia Perez-Alonso and Christoph Weiss, I have been conducting a statistical exercise comparing different semi-parametric binary choice models (abstract). One product of our efforts is a unified R code, which enables users to employ several semi-parametric techinques within the same software. |
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