Estimating linear regressions with mismeasured, possibly endogenous, binary explanatory variables

Journal of Econometrics

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 151-178

  Frazis, Harley ^a   Loewenstein, Mark A ^b  

^a BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS   (United States)

^b BLS   (United States)

Author keywords

Binary variables; Instrumental variables; Measurement error

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; BINARY SEQUENCES; ERROR ANALYSIS; INSTRUMENT ERRORS; LINEAR EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL TESTS; THEOREM PROVING;

ECONOMETRICS; GENERALIZED METHOD OF MOMENTS (GMM);

MEASUREMENT ERRORS;

EID: 0347985221     PISSN: 03044076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4076(03)00121-0     Document Type: Article

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