Kevin Staub

Short Biography

Kevin is spending the academic year 2011-2012 visiting the Department of Economics of Princeton University as a postdoctoral research fellow.

Education: PhD in Economics, University of Zurich, 2011.

Research interests: Applied econometrics, empirical economics (trade, health, labor).

Publications

"Consistent estimation of zero-inflated count models", forthcoming in Health Economics.
(with R. Winkelmann)

"The trade effects of endogenous preferential trade agreements", American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 3(3), 2011, 113-143.
(with P. Egger, M. Larch and R. Winkelmann)

"Relative status and satisfaction", Economics Letters, 109(3), 2010, 168-170.
(with S. Boes and R. Winkelmann)

"Simple tests for exogeneity of a binary explanatory variable in count data regression models", Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation, 38(9), 2009, 1834-1855.

Research Papers

"Online accessibility of academic articles and the diversity of economics"
(with T. Boppart).

"Trade Preferences and Bilateral Trade in Goods and Services: A Structural Approach"
(with P. Egger and M. Larch).

"Reconsidering the analysis of longitudinal happiness data - with an application to the effect of unemployment"
(with G. Baetschmann and R. Winkelmann).

"A causal interpretation of extensive and intensive margin effects in generalized Tobit models".