The Phantom Menace of Omitted Variables: A Comment*

Conflict Management and Peace Science

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 233-238

  Vance, Colin ^a   Ritter, Nolan ^b  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^b RWI LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

control variables; model specification; variance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859906311     PISSN: 07388942     EISSN: 15499219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0738894211433169     Document Type: Article

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