Microeconometrics

ALBERTO ABADIE Harvard Kennedy School, USAJOSHUA D. ANGRIST Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USABADI H. BALTAGI University of Arizona, USAMOSHE BUCHINSKY University of California Los Angeles, USACOLIN A. CAMERON University of California Davis, USATIMOTHY G. CONLEY University of Chicago, USAJOHN DINARDO University of Michigan, USAJEFF DOMINITZ Carnegie Mellon University, USADAVID DRAPER University of California Santa Cruz, USAJEAN-MARIE DUFOUR McGill University, USAANDREW GELMAN Columbia University, USAJINYONG HAHN University of California Los Angeles, USAVASSILIS A. HAJIVASILIOU London School of Economics, UKJERRY A. HAUSMAN Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USAJAMES J. HECKMAN The University of Chicago, USAKEISUKE HIRANO University of Arizona, USACHENG HSIAO University of Southern California, USAGUIDO W. IMBENS University of California Berkeley, USAYANNIS IOANNIDES Tufts University, USAEKATERINI KYRIAZIDOU University of California Los Angeles, USAEDWARD E. LEAMER University of California Los Angeles, USABRUCE G. LINDSAY Penn State University, USAOLIVER B. LINTON London School of Economics, UKJOHN A. LIST University of Chicago, USATHIERRY MAGNAC University of Toulouse 1, FranceCHARLES F. MANSKI Northwestern University, USAROSA L. MATZKIN University of California Los Angeles, USASALVADOR NAVARRO University of Madison Wisconsin, USAJAMES L. POWELL University of California Berkeley, USADAVID REILEY University of Arizona, USAERIC RENAULT University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, USAJEAN-MARC ROBIN University of Paris 1, FranceDONALD B. RUBIN Harvard University, USAROBERT P. SHERMAN California Institute of Technology, USAMICHAEL STEWART University of Sydney, AustraliaCHRISTOPHER TABER The University of Wisconsin Madison, USAELIE TAMER Northwestern University, USAPETRA E. TODD University of Pennsylvania, USAGERARD J. VAN DEN BERG University of Amsterdam, The NetherlandsWILBERT VAN DER KLAAUW Federal Reserve Bank of New York, USAARTHUR VAN SOEST Tilburg University, The NetherlandsTIEMEN M. WOUTERSEN Johns Hopkins University, USA

• Contents General Preface Introduction List of Contributors List of Entries Entries A-Z Index

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