Tobit or not tobit?

Journal of Economic and Social Measurement

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 263-290

  Stewart, Jay ^a  

^a BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS   (United States)

Author keywords

C34; OLS; time use data; Tobit; two step estimation

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 84889564495     PISSN: 07479662     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/JEM-130376     Document Type: Article

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