Mastering 'metrics: The path from cause to effect

Mastering 'Metrics: The Path from Cause to Effect

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1-282

  Angrist, Joshua D ^a   Pischke, Jör Steffen ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

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