Accounting for dropouts in evaluations of social programs

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-11

  Heckman, James ^a   Smith, Jeffrey ^a   Taber, Christopher ^a  

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EID: 0032373979     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/003465398557203     Document Type: Article

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