What are we weighting for?

Journal of Human Resources

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 301-316

  Solon, Gary ^a   Haider, Steven J ^a   Wooldridge, Jeffrey M ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HETEROGENEITY; POPULATION ESTIMATION;

EID: 84925949249     PISSN: 0022166X     EISSN: 15488004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/jhr.50.2.301     Document Type: Article

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