Research Methods for Corporate, Securities, and Financial Law
When Do Covariates Matter? And Which Ones, and How Much?
Jonah B. Gelbach
- Year
- 2016
- Venue
- Journal of Labor Economics
- Level
- Advanced
Summary
Develops a decomposition for understanding why a coefficient changes when correlated covariates are added to a regression. The method avoids sequence-dependent explanations and is useful when empirical legal research attributes coefficient movement to particular controls or mechanisms.
Citation
Jonah B. Gelbach. "When Do Covariates Matter? And Which Ones, and How Much?." Journal of Labor Economics, 2016.
DOI: 10.1086/683668
BibTeX
@article{Gelbach2016When,
title = {When Do Covariates Matter? And Which Ones, and How Much?},
author = {Jonah B. Gelbach},
year = {2016},
journal = {Journal of Labor Economics},
doi = {10.1086/683668},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1086/683668}
}