On the Performance of Some Robust Instrumental Variables Estimators

Journal of Business and Economic Statistics

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 30-39

  Honoré, Bo E ^a   Hu, Luojia ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Endogeneity; Quantile regression; Rank regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 0742306365     PISSN: 07350015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/073500103288619368     Document Type: Article

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