Additive Nonparametric Regression in the Presence of Endogenous Regressors

Journal of Business and Economic Statistics

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 555-575

  Ozabaci, Deniz ^a   Henderson, Daniel J ^b   Su, Liangjun ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^c SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Additive regression; Endogeneity; Generated regressors; Oracle estimation; Structural equation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919666301     PISSN: 07350015     EISSN: 15372707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07350015.2014.917590     Document Type: Article

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