Rusty Tchernis

Selected Publications

• Buchinsky, M., Fougère D., Kramarz I., and R. Tchernis. "Interfirm Mobility, Wages, and the Returns to Seniority and Experience in the U.S.," Review of Economic Studies, forthcoming.
• McCarthy, I., and R. Tchernis. "Search Costs and Medicare Plan Choice," Health Economics, forthcoming.
• Millimet, D., R. Tchernis, and M. Husain. "School Nutrition Programs and the Incidence of Childhood Obesity," Journal of Human Resources, forthcoming.
• Millimet, D. and R. Tchernis. (2009) "On the Specification of Propensity Scores: with Applications to the Analysis of Trade Policies," Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 397-415.
• Fertig, A., Glomm, G., and R. Tchernis. (2009) "The Connection between Maternal Employment and Childhood Obesity: Inspecting the Mechanisms," Review of Economics of the Household, 7(3), pp. 227–255.
• Millimet, D. and R. Tchernis (2008) "Estimating High-Dimensional Demand Systems in the Presence of Many Binding Non-Negativity Constraints," Journal of Econometrics, vol. 147, pp. 384-395.
• Tchernis, R., Normand S-L., Pakes J., Gaccione P., and J.P. Newhouse (2006), "Selection and Plan Switching Behavior ," Inquiry, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 10 - 22.
• Tchernis R., Horvitz-Lennon M., and Normand S-L. (2005) "On the Use of Discrete Choice Models for Causal Inference," Statistics in Medicine, vol. 24, no. 14, pp. 2197 - 2212.
• Hogan J.W., and R. Tchernis (2004), ''Bayesian Factor Analysis for Spatially Correlated Data, with Application to Deriving Indices of Deprivation from Area-level Census Data,'' Journal of the American Statistical Association, vol. 99, no. 466, pp. 314 - 324.

Research Papers

• "Minimizing Bias in Selection on Observables Estimators when Unconfoundedness Fails," with Daniel Millimet. [PDF File].