Dealing with selection bias in educational transition models: The bivariate probit selection model

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 311-322

  Holm, Anders ^a   Jaeger Mads Meier M M ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Educational transitions; Mare model; Methodology; Sequential logit model; Unobserved heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052915427     PISSN: 02765624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2011.02.002     Document Type: Article

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