Rusty Tchernis

Publications

• Millimet, D. and R. Tchernis. (2012), "Estimation of Treatment Effects Without an Exclusion Restriction: with an Application to the Analysis of the School Breakfast Program," Journal of Applied Econometrics, forthcoming.
  Stata code is available here.
• Sandy, R., Tchernis R., Liu, G., Wilson J., and X. Zhou. (2012), "Effects of the Built Environment on Childhood Obesity: The Case of Urban Recreational Trails and Crime," Economics and Human Biology, forthcoming.
• Roy, M., Millimet D., and R. Tchernis. (2012), "Federal Nutrition Programs and Childhood Obesity: Inside the Black Box ," Review of Economics of the Household, Vol. 10, pp. 1-38.
• McCarthy, I. and R. Tchernis. (2011),, "On the Estimation of Selection Models When Participation is Endogenous and Misclassified," Advances in Econometrics: Missing Data Methods, Vol. 27A, pp. 179 - 207.
• McCarthy, I., and R. Tchernis. (2010), "Search Costs and Medicare Plan Choice," Health Economics, 19(10), 1142-1165.
• Millimet, D., R. Tchernis, and M. Husain. (2010), "School Nutrition Programs and the Incidence of Childhood Obesity," Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 45, No. 3, pp. 640-654.
• Buchinsky, M., Fougère D., Kramarz I., and R. Tchernis. (2010), "Interfirm Mobility, Wages, and the Returns to Seniority and Experience in the U.S.," Review of Economic Studies, 77(3) pp. 972-1001.
• Chamarbagwala, R., and R. Tchernis. (2010), "Exploring the Spatial Determinants of Children’s Activities: Evidence from India," Empirical Economics, 39(2) pp. 593-617.
• Tchernis. R. (2010), "Measuring Human Capital and its Effects of Wage Growth," Journal of Economic Surveys, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 362-387.
• 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.

Working Papers

• "Modeling Area-Level Health Rankings," with Samir Soneji. [PDF File].