Chapter 23 Empirical strategies in labor economics

Handbook of Labor Economics

Volumn 3 PART, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1277-1366

  Angrist, Joshua D ^a   Krueger, Alan B ^b  

^a MIT

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

C10; C81; J00; J31

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EID: 77956790242     PISSN: 15734463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1573-4463(99)03004-7     Document Type: Chapter

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