Bounding Causal Effects Using Data from a Contaminated Natural Experiment: Analysing the Effects of Teenage Childbearing

Review of Economic Studies

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 575-603

  Hotz, V Joseph ^a   Mullin, Charles H ^b   Sanders, Seth G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0347419653     PISSN: 00346527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2971732     Document Type: Article

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