On estimating firm-level production functions using proxy variables to control for unobservables

Economics Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 112-114

  Wooldridge, Jeffrey M ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Generalized method of moments; Panel data; Production function; Proxy variables

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649639659     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2009.04.026     Document Type: Article

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