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This article reviews proportional hazard models and how the thinking about identification and estimation of these models has evolved since the mid-1970s.
Keywords
- Baseline hazard
- Convergence
- Duration dependence
- Duration measurements
- Duration models
- Gamma distribution
- Heterogeneity
- Mixed proportional hazard (MPH) model
- Partial likelihood estimators
- Proportional hazard models
- Semiparametric estimation
- Time-Varying regressors
- Weibull model
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Hausman, J.A., Woutersen, T.M. (2018). Proportional Hazard Model. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_2625
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