Estimating treatment effects from spatial policy experiments: An application to Ugandan microfinance

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 15-28

  McIntosh, Craig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 38849086154     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: 15309142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/rest.90.1.15     Document Type: Article

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