Testing exclusion restrictions and additive separability in sample selection models

Empirical Economics

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 75-92

  Huber, Martin ^a   Mellace, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Additive separability; Exclusion restriction; Monotonicity; Sample selection; Test

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; MODELING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TESTING METHOD; WAGE; WOMENS EMPLOYMENT;

EID: 84903697087     PISSN: 03777332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00181-013-0742-1     Document Type: Article

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