Estimating the labor market impact of voluntary military service using social security data on military applicants

Econometrica

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 249-288

  Angrist, Joshua D ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Earnings; Instrumental variables; Matching estimators; Program evaluation; Selection bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001242882     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2998558     Document Type: Article

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