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Overview

Christopher Taber is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their work spans multiple fields within economics, econometrics, and social sciences, with a focus on understanding labor markets, demographic factors, and economic modeling.

Their research topics include:

  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
  • Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
  • Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management
  • Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
  • Firm Innovation and Growth
  • Economic theories and models

Christopher Taber has contributed to various subfields, notably:

  • Economics and Econometrics
  • General Health Professions
  • Demography
  • Gender Studies
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

Several publication venues have featured their work, including:

  • Econometrica
  • Journal of Political Economy
  • Journal of Applied Econometrics
  • Journal of Business and Economic Statistics
  • Journal of Labor Economics

Christopher Taber's recent papers cover diverse aspects of labor economics and econometric modeling. These include:

  • "Estimation of a Roy/Search/Compensating Differential Model of the Labor Market," 2020, Econometrica
  • "Estimation of a Life-Cycle Model with Human Capital, Labor Supply, and Retirement," 2023, Journal of Political Economy
  • "Understanding women's wage growth using indirect inference with importance sampling," 2021, Journal of Applied Econometrics
  • "Thoughts on 'Transparency in Structural Research'," 2020, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics
  • "Introduction: A Special Issue in Honor of Joseph Altonji," 2020, Journal of Labor Economics

Their research collaborations involve frequent coauthors such as:

  • Ananth Seshadri
  • Xiaodong Fan
  • Rune Vejlin
  • Robert M. Sauer

Best Publications

  • Selection on Observed and Unobserved Variables: Assessing the Effectiveness of Catholic Schools

    Joseph G. Altonji;Todd E. Elder;Christopher R. Taber

  • Explaining Rising Wage Inequality: Explorations with a Dynamic General Equilibrium Model of Labor Earnings with Heterogeneous Agents

    James Heckman;Lance Lochner;Christopher Taber

  • General-Equilibrium Treatment Effects: A Study of Tuition Policy

    James J. Heckman;Lance Lochner;Christopher Taber

  • Estimation of educational borrowing constraints using returns to schooling

    Stephen V. Cameron;Christopher Taber

  • Inference with “Difference in Differences” with a Small Number of Policy Changes

    Timothy G. Conley;Christopher R. Taber

  • An Evaluation of Instrumental Variable Strategies for Estimating the Effects of Catholic Schooling

    Joseph G. Altonji;Todd E. Elder;Christopher R. Taber

  • Tax Policy and Human-Capital Formation

    James J Heckman;Lance Lochner;Christopher Taber

  • Estimating the Effect of Student Aid on College Enrollment: Evidence from a Government Grant Policy Reform

    Helena Skyt Nielsen;Torben Sørensen;Christopher R Taber

  • The Rising College Premium in the Eighties: Return to College or Return to Unobserved Ability?

    Christopher R. Taber

  • Wage Progression Among Less Skilled Workers

    Tricia Lynn Gladden;Christopher R. Taber

  • General Equilibrium Cost Benefit Analysis of Education and Tax Policies

    James Heckman;Lance Lochner;Christopher Taber

  • What Do Bureaucrats Do? The Effects of Performance Standards and Bureaucratic Preferences on Acceptance into the JTPA Program

    James Heckman;Jeffrey Smith;Christopher Taber

  • Using Selection on Observed Variables to Assess Bias from Unobservables When Evaluating Swan-Ganz Catheterization

    Joseph G. Altonji;Todd E. Elder;Christopher R. Taber

  • Borrowing Constraints and the Returns to Schooling

    Stephen Cameron;Christopher Taber

  • Accounting for Dropouts in Evaluations of Social Programs

    James Heckman;Jeffrey Smith;Christopher Taber

  • Estimating the Cream Skimming Effect of School Choice

    Joseph G. Altonji;Ching-I Huang;Christopher R. Taber

  • Difference-in-Differences Method in Comparative Effectiveness Research: Utility with Unbalanced Groups

    Huanxue Zhou;Christopher Taber;Steve Arcona;Yunfeng Li

  • Life-Cycle Wage Growth and Heterogeneous Human Capital

    Carl Sanders;Christopher Taber;Christopher Taber

  • Identification of Models of the Labor Market

    Eric French;Christopher Taber

  • Estimation of a Roy/Search/Compensating Differential Model of the Labor Market

    Christopher Taber;Rune Vejlin

  • Estimating the Effect of Student Aid on College Enrollment: Evidence from a Government Grant Policy Reform

    Helena Skyt Nielsen;Helena Skyt Nielsen;Torben Soerensen;Christopher Taber;Christopher Taber

  • The Rising College Premium in the Eighties: Return to College or Return to Unobserved Ability?: Return to College or Return to Unobserved Ability?

    Christopher R. Taber

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