A note on bounding average treatment effects

Economics Letters

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 424-428

  Lafférs, Lukáš ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Norway)

Author keywords

Average treatment effect; Bounds; Partial identification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879425071     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2013.05.029     Document Type: Article

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