Estimating intergenerational schooling mobility on censored samples: Consequences and remedies

Journal of Applied Econometrics

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 151-166

  De Haan, Monique ^a   Plug, Erik ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b TINBERGEN INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^c IZA   (Germany)

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EID: 78650959033     PISSN: 08837252     EISSN: 10991255     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jae.1123     Document Type: Article

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