Causal Inference in Urban and Regional Economics

Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages 3-68

  Baum Snow, Nathaniel ^a   Ferreira, Fernando ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Casual inference; Empirical methods; R1; Regional economics; Research design; Treatment effects; Urban economics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928997932     PISSN: 15740080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-59517-1.00001-5     Document Type: Chapter

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