--- Louis Boakye-Yiadom <[email protected]> wrote:
> When using the -heckman- command, is there a way of checking the
> validity of the identifying variable(s)?
No, that is the big problem with every type of "causal" model, in the
end they rely on assumptions you just have to believe. Descriptive
models are in that sense much more scientific.
-- Maarten
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Department of Social Research Methodology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
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http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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