Testing a conditional form of exogeneity

Economics Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 88-90

  White, Halbert ^a   Chalak, Karim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Causality; Conditional exogeneity; Nonparametric test; Treatment effect; Unconfoundedness

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957137746     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2010.08.018     Document Type: Article

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