Investigating non-ignorable dropout in panel studies of residential mobility

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 239-266

  Washbrook, Elizabeth ^a   Clarke, Paul S ^a   Steele, Fiona ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bivariate probit; Heckman selection model; Informative dropout; Instrumental variable; Missing data; Selection model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894467321     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: 14679876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/rssc.12028     Document Type: Article

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