Development and inequality: Evidence from an endogenous switching regression without regime separation

Economics Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 269-274

  Chen, Zhuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Growth; Inequality; Regime separation; Switching regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250190211     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2007.01.013     Document Type: Article

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