Do Black Children Benefit More From Small Classes? Multivariate Instrumental Variable Estimators With Ignorable Missing Data

Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 543-574

  Shin, Yongyun ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

causal effect; ignorable missing data; instrumental variable; reduced class size; simultaneous equation model; Tennessee class size experiment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864329497     PISSN: 10769986     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/1076998611431083     Document Type: Article

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