Estimation of a semiparametric recursive bivariate probit model in the presence of endogeneity

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 259-279

  Marra, Giampiero ^a   Radice, Rosalba ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Average treatment effect; Binary data; Identification by functional form; Penalized regression spline; Recursive bivariate probit model; Simultaneous equation estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956270704     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: 1708945X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjs.10100     Document Type: Article

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