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Title: Comparison of Hazard Functions with Duration Dependence and Stayer-Mover Structure with an Application to Divorce
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Gonul, Fusun Feride |
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Comparison of Hazard Functions with Duration Dependence and Stayer-Mover Structure with an Application to Divorce Paper, Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1988 Cohort(s): Young Women Publisher: Carnegie-Mellon University Keyword(s): Behavior; Data Analysis; Divorce; Marital Stability; Marriage; Modeling, Hazard/Event History/Survival/Duration; Monte Carlo; Research Methodology; Statistical Analysis Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Performances of hazard functions with an implicit stayer-mover structure are examined in Monte Carlo samples. The results are then applied to data on duration of first marriages from the NLS of Young Women. The Monte Carlo experiments conducted in this study uncover the cases when the built-in stayer-mover structure of the flexible hazard function is useful and when it is not. Only in some cases, the flexible hazard function yields a plausible estimate of the stayer proportion, and in other cases it either under- or over-estimates it. It is important to be aware of this bias if one uses flexible hazard functions to obtain estimates of life time behavior where a change may never take place, as in, for example, divorce for those married. |
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Gonul, Fusun Feride. "Comparison of Hazard Functions with Duration Dependence and Stayer-Mover Structure with an Application to Divorce." Paper, Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1988. |