Inefficiency, Subsample Selection Bias, and Nonrobustness: A Response to Paul E. Peterson and William G. Howell

American Behavioral Scientist

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 718-728

  Krueger, Alan B ^a,b   Zhu, Pei ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Randomized experiment; School vouchers

Indexed keywords

EID: 0348017052     PISSN: 00027642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002764203260150     Document Type: Conference Paper

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