What Are We Weighting For?

When estimating population descriptive statistics, weighting is called for if needed to make the analysis sample representative of the target population. With regard to research directed instead at estimating causal effects, we discuss three distinct weighting motives: (1) to achieve precise estimat...

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Volume:	50
Main Author:	Gary Solon Steven J. Haider Jeffrey M. Wooldridge
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Zielgruppe:	Academic
Place of publication:	MADISON University of Wisconsin Press 01.04.2015 UNIV WISCONSIN PRESS
published in:	The Journal of human resources Vol. 50; no. 2; pp. 301 - 316
Data of publication:	20150401
ISSN:	0022-166X 1548-8004
EISSN:	1548-8004
Discipline:	Economics Business
Subjects:	Symposium on Empirical Methods Economics Econometric models Research Instrumental variables (Statistics) Methodology Asymptotic distribution (Probability theory) Business & Economics Social Sciences Industrial Relations & Labor Usage Population forecasting Methods Weighting (Statistics) IMPACT PANEL-DATA M-ESTIMATORS CRIME STRATIFIED SAMPLES ASYMPTOTIC PROPERTIES RAISE DIVORCE RATES ERROR LABOR-MARKET
Online Access:	Fulltext
Database:	Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index - 2015 Web of Knowledge Web of Science CrossRef Academic OneFile (A&I only) Database information Databases - DBIS