The Gini Instrumental Variable, or the "double instrumental variable" estimator

Metron

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 287-313

  Yitzhaki, Shlomo ^a   Schechtman, Edna ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Gini regression; Gini's mean difference; Instrumental Variable; Ordinary least squares

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749685477     PISSN: 00261424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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