Econometric Mediation Analyses: Identifying the Sources of Treatment Effects from Experimentally Estimated Production Technologies with Unmeasured and Mismeasured Inputs

Econometric Reviews

Volumn 34, Issue , 2015, Pages 6-31

  Heckman, James J ^a   Pinto, Rodrigo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Measurement error; Mediation analysis; Missing inputs; Production function

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908042355     PISSN: 07474938     EISSN: 15324168     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07474938.2014.944466     Document Type: Article

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