Training, wages, and sample selection: Estimating sharp bounds on treatment effects

Review of Economic Studies

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1071-1102

  Lee, David S ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMETRICS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EMPLOYMENT; ESTIMATION METHOD; HUMAN CAPITAL; WAGE DETERMINATION;

EID: 67549100999     PISSN: 00346527     EISSN: 1467937X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-937X.2009.00536.x     Document Type: Article

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