Keep it simple: estimation strategies for ordered response models with fixed effects

Journal of Applied Statistics

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2358-2374

  Riedl, Maximilian ^a   Geishecker, Ingo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY VIADRINA   (Germany)

Author keywords

finite sample properties; fixed effects ordered logit; happiness; Monte Carlo simulation; ordered responses

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926100185     PISSN: 02664763     EISSN: 13600532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02664763.2014.909969     Document Type: Article

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