Tobit or OLS? An empirical evaluation under different diary window lengths

Applied Economics

Volumn 45, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 2994-3010

  Foster, Gigi ^a   Kalenkoski, Charlene M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Australia; child care; OLS; time diary data; Tobit

Indexed keywords

CHILD CARE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; SURVEY;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84863556992     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2012.690852     Document Type: Article

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