Faculty : Keisuke Hirano

	McCoy-Rogers Fellow and Associate Professor
	Microeconometrics
	Phone:	520.621.6065
	Fax:	520.621.8450
	Email:	hirano@eller.arizona.edu
	Website:	http://www.u.arizona.edu/~hirano/
	Office:	McClelland Hall, Room 401PP

Current Research

Keisuke Hirano's research is in econometric methodology for analyzing cross-sectional and panel data. He has worked on Bayesian estimators for longitudinal data, propensity-score based estimation of treatment effects, and optimal estimation of structural models of auctions.

Publications

• "Asymptotic Efficiency in Parametric Structural Models with Parameter-Dependent Support," (with J. Porter), 2003 Econometrica 71,1307-1338.
• "Efficient Estimation of Average Treatment Effects using the Estimated Propensity Score," (with G. Imbens and G. Ridder), 2003, Econometrica 71, 1161-1189.
• "Semiparametric Bayesian Inference in Autoregressive Panel Data Models," 2002, Econometrica 70, 781-799.
• "Combining Panel Data Sets with Attrition and Refreshment Samples," (with G. Imbens, G. Ridder, and D. Rubin), 2001, Econometrica 69, 1645-1659.
• "Estimation of Causal Effects using Propensity Score Weighting: An Application to Data on Right Heart Catheterization," (with G. Imbens), 2001, Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology 2:259-278.
• "Assessing the Effect of an Influenza Vaccine in an Encouragement Design with Covariates," (with G. Imbens, D. Rubin, and X. Zhou), 2000, Biostatistics 1, 69-88.
• "Predictive Distributions based on Longitudinal Earnings Data," (with G. Chamberlain), 1999, Annales d'Economie et de Statistique 55-56, 211-242.
• "A Semiparametric Model for Labor Earnings Dynamics," in Practical Nonparametric and Semiparametric Bayesian Statistics, ed. D. Dey, P. Mueller, D. Sinha, New York: Springer--Verlag, 1998.

Working Papers

• "The Propensity Score with Continuous Treatments," (with G. Imbens), 2004.
• "Efficiency in Asymptotic Shift Experiments," (with J. Porter), 2003.