Predictor relevance and extramarital affairs

We revisit Fair's (1978) 'theory of extramarital affairs' using robust nonparametric methods developed for the analysis of categorical data. We find evidence suggesting that the number of years married is not a relevant predictor of the propensity to engage in extramarital affairs hav...

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Published in:Journal of applied econometrics (Chichester, England) England), 2004-07, Vol.19 (4), p.533-535
Main Authors: Li, QI, Racine, Jeff
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Applied econometrics
Data smoothing
Datasets
Economic models
Economic research
Estimators
Nonparametric methods
Parametric models
Replication Section
Research universities
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Summary:We revisit Fair's (1978) 'theory of extramarital affairs' using robust nonparametric methods developed for the analysis of categorical data. We find evidence suggesting that the number of years married is not a relevant predictor of the propensity to engage in extramarital affairs having controlled for other factors. This finding runs counter to the prevailing wisdom gleaned from misspecified parametric models.
ISSN:0883-7252
1099-1255
DOI:10.1002/jae.777