Is the Magic Still There? The Use of the Heckman Two-Step Correction for Selection Bias in Criminology

By S. Bushway, Brian David Johnson, L. Slocum. 2007

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science, Statistics and Probability

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“Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop”: Self-Control, Risky Lifestyles, and Repeat Victimization (2012, methodology): “Multiple imputation is a well-established approach to dealing with missing data (Acock 2005; Allison, 2000; Carlin et al. 2008; Rubin 1987; Schafer 1997), and the imputation model was specified using all variables in the present study (Royston 2004).”
Analysis of the Factors Influencing Market Participation among Smallholder Rice Farmers in Magway Region, Central Dry Zone of Myanmar (2018, methodology): “The Heckman two-stage model corrects sample selection bias from non-randomly selected samples [22,23].”
Recent Developments and New Directions in Sentencing Research (2012, methodology): “Data on charges would allow researchers to measure and track charge reductions connected to guilty pleas, while data on convictions and acquittals would allow researchers to balance sentencing “trial penalties” against the likelihood of acquittal and avoiding punishment altogether, and would allow r”
Sample Selection Bias and Heckman Models in Strategic Management Research (2016, methodology): “Nevertheless, some scholars have proposed evaluating the strength of exclusion restrictions by examining the correlation between the inverse Mills ratio and the independent variable, x (Bushway et al., 2007; Leung and Yu, 1996; Moffitt, 1999).”
Does familiarity foster innovation? The impact of alliance partner repeatedness on breakthrough innovations (2015, methodology): “After all, prior studies suggested that ordinary least regression (OLS) should be adopted in the second stage (Bushway et al., 2007).”
Trial Penalties in Federal Sentencing: Extra‐Guidelines Factors and District Variation (2010, methodology): “In addition, we also examined censored two-stage models with non-imprisonment sentences coded as zero months of imprisonment (Bushway et al., 2007).”
Estimating Gender Disparities in Federal Criminal Cases (2015, background): “9 As Bushway, Johnson, and Slocum (2007) point out, the sentencing literature tends to ignore this problem.”
Controlling for endogeneity with instrumental variables in strategic management research (2008, background): “If this is not the case, estimates may be unstable and potentially biased (e.g. Bushway et al., 2007; Goldberger, 1983; Hartman, 1991; Little, 1985; Winship and Mare, 1992).11 2.”
Distinguishing Race Effects on Pre-Trial Release and Sentencing Decisions (2012, background): “…selection bias in models of sentence length (Zatz & Hagan, 1985), with the qualification that the correction can actually do more harm than good (Bushway et al., 2007), but it is often difficult to create an inverse Mills ratio that is not collinear with other predictors in the model…”
Contexts of Decision Making in the Juvenile Justice System: An Organizational Approach to Understanding Minority Overrepresentation (2010, background): “It is important to note that while correction for possible selection bias is widely used in the sentencing literature, some question its appropriateness and indicate that it is often misused (e.g., Bushway et al., 2007; Stolzenberg & Relles, 1990).”