The variance of non-parametric treatment effect estimators in the presence of clustering

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1197-1201

  Hanson, Samuel G ^a   Sunderam, Adi ^a  

^a HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

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EID: 84886942768     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: 15309142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/REST_a_00211     Document Type: Article

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