Working Papers and Work in Progress

Bayesian Choice Modelling and Substance Demand Analysis

“More than Joints: Multi-Substance Use, Choice Limitations, and Policy Implications”, joint with Michelle Sovinsky, Tao Sun and Alessandra Allocca (2023). Working paper available.

“Substance Complementarities under Access Restrictions: Analysis of (Il)licit Multi-Substance Use with Endogenous Choice Sets”, joint with Michelle Sovinsky and Tao Sun

“The Price is (not) Right: Incorporating Unobserved Price Heterogeneity in Demand Models”, joint with Laura Grigolon and Michelle Sovinsky. 

Treatment Effects

“Positive at Last? Re-estimating Female Returns to Schooling via Bayesian Moment Condition Matching to Control for Skewness”, joint with Paul Nguyen and Tomasz Woszniak

“Verifying the Validity of Moment Conditions in the BETEL Framework: Identification in Fiscal Policy Structural VARs”, joint with Paul Nguyen and Tomasz Woszniak

"Earnings Effects of Extended Maternity Leave: A Bayesian Censored Panel Analysis of Earnings Dynamics with Missing Earnings" with Helga Wagner and Sylvia Fruehwirth-Schnatter

Prior Sensitivity Analysis for MCMC Inference

“An analysis of vectorised Automatic Differentiation for Statistical Inference”, joint with Chun Fung Kwok and Dan Zhu. Working paper available at SSRN 4054947 (2022).

R-package:

Kwok, C. F., Zhu, D., and Jacobi, L. (2020). ADtools: Automatic Differentiation Toolbox. R package version 0.5.4. https://cran.r-project.org/package=ADtools