Small business survival and sample selection bias

Small Business Economics

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 155-165

  Cader, Hanas A ^a   Leatherman, John C ^b  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF KUWAIT   (Kuwait)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Firm survival; Omitted observation; Selection bias; Two stage estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052033115     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-009-9240-4     Document Type: Article

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