Optimally combining censored and uncensored datasets

Journal of Econometrics

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 17-32

  Devereux, Paul J ^a   Tripathi, Gautam ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Censoring; Combining datasets; Generalized method of moments

Indexed keywords

CENSORING; COMBINING DATASETS; DATA SETS; FINITE SAMPLES; GENERALIZED METHOD OF MOMENTS; NON-PARAMETRIC SMOOTHING; SEMIPARAMETRIC; SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS;

METHOD OF MOMENTS;

EID: 67349226679     PISSN: 03044076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2009.03.012     Document Type: Article

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