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William H. Dow
Researcher at University of California, Berkeley
Publications - 158
Citations - 3643
William H. Dow is an academic researcher from University of California, Berkeley. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Health care. The author has an hindex of 29, co-authored 147 publications receiving 3152 citations. Previous affiliations of William H. Dow include University of California & Stanford University.
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Money, schooling, and health: Mechanisms and causal evidence.
TL;DR: The potential causal mechanisms linking schooling and income to health, and the twin challenges to causal inference in observational studies, in other words, reverse causation and omitted variable bias are reviewed.
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Incentivising safe sex: a randomised trial of conditional cash transfers for HIV and sexually transmitted infection prevention in rural Tanzania
Damien de Walque,William H. Dow,Rose Nathan,Ramadhani Abdul,Faraji Abilahi,Erick Gong,Zachary Isdahl,Julian C. Jamison,Boniphace Jullu,Suneeta Krishnan,Albert Majura,Edward Miguel,Jeanne Moncada,Sally Mtenga,Mathew A. Mwanyangala,Laura Packel,Julius Schachter,Kizito Shirima,Carol Medlin +18 more
TL;DR: Conditional cash transfers used to incentivise safer sexual practices are a potentially promising new tool in HIV and sexually transmitted infections prevention.
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Choosing Between and Interpreting the Heckit and Two-Part Models for Corner Solutions
William H. Dow,Edward C. Norton +1 more
TL;DR: This paper proposed an adapted empirical mean square error test for the Heckit and the two-part model to solve the selection problem associated with masses of zero values in continuous variables, despite the fact that no such selection problem exists when modeling observed actual, as opposed to latent potential, outcomes.
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Longevity Complementarities Under Competing Risks
TL;DR: Dow et al. as discussed by the authors argued that there are inherent complementarities between investments in the prevention of cause-specific mortality risks, both on the individual level and on the aggregate level.
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Surprising SES Gradients in Mortality, Health, and Biomarkers in a Latin American Population of Adults
Luis Rosero-Bixby,William H. Dow +1 more
TL;DR: Negative modern behaviors among high-SES groups may be reversing cardiovascular risks across SES groups, hence reversing mortality risks, but negative SES gradients in healthy years of life persist.