Famous Writers' Sleep Habits and Literary Productivity
| Autor: | Shi-Yuan Huang, 黃詩媛 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 105 Science often says that sleep plays an important role in good health and well-being throughout one’s life. However, what kind of sleep patterns is good to human beings? In this paper, given the data of sleep habits of some historical figures — famous writers, we would like to find the relation between wake-up time and productivity. The OLS estimates reveal that there is a negative relationship between them. Taking endogeneity problem into consideration, the 2SLS method is applied, which does not report any relation between wake-up time and productivity. According to the regression quantile estimates, wake-up times have heterogeneous effect over the conditional distribution of writers’ productivity. In practice, since the relevant variables and the correct functional form are usually unknown, the method of LASSO can be modified, namely the double-selection method, cf. Belloni, Chernozhukov and Hansen (2014), to cope with variable selection and model specification under endogeneity. We demonstrate the double-selection method in the present study. Quantile treatment effects are investigated as well. |
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