Propensity score matching without conditional independence assumption - With an application to the gender wage gap in the United Kingdom

Econometrics Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 359-407

  Frölich, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Covariate adjustment; Discrimination; Field of major; Selection on unobservables; Subject of degree; Wage gap

Indexed keywords

EID: 34347401441     PISSN: 13684221     EISSN: 1368423X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1368-423X.2007.00212.x     Document Type: Article

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