Microeconometrics

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Specially selected from The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics 2nd edition, each article within this compendium covers the fundamental themes within the discipline and is written by a leading practitioner in the field. A handy reference tool.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• List of Contributors (p. vii)
• General Preface (p. ix)
• Introduction (p. x)
• categorical data (p. 1)
• competing risks model (p. 6)
• computational methods in econometrics (p. 11)
• control functions (p. 20)
• decision theory in econometrics (p. 29)
• difference-in-difference estimators (p. 36)
• exchangeability (p. 40)
• extreme bounds analysis (p. 49)
• field experiments (p. 53)
• fixed effects and random effects (p. 59)
• identification (p. 65)
• local regression models (p. 78)
• logit models of individual choice (p. 83)
• longitudinal data analysis (p. 89)
• matching estimators (p. 108)
• maximum score methods (p. 122)
• mixture models (p. 129)
• natural experiments and quasi-natural experiments (p. 139)
• nonlinear panel data models (p. 154)
• nonparametric structural models (p. 169)
• partial identification in econometrics (p. 178)
• partial linear model (p. 189)
• propensity score (p. 194)
• proportional hazard model (p. 197)
• quantile regression (p. 202)
• regression-discontinuity analysis (p. 214)
• Roy model (p. 221)
• Rubin causal model (p. 229)
• selection bias and self-selection (p. 242)
• semiparametric estimation (p. 267)
• simulation-based estimation (p. 278)
• social interactions (empirics) (p. 293)
• spatial econometrics (p. 303)
• survey data, analysis of (p. 314)
• Tobit model (p. 323)
• treatment effect (p. 329)
• variance, analysis of (p. 339)
• Index (p. 348)