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self-selection
(redirected from Self-selection bias)

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self-selection
a circumstance in which the allocation of units of a population to one or other of two groups which are to be compared is done by the units, e.g. the sick animals in one group, the not-sick in the other. See also volunteer sample.


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8) To account for self-selection bias for the decision to list on the NYSE, which could bias the impact of listing on performance, we use the Heckman two-step procedure (e.
However, there is room for caution in the interpretation of such results due to the self-selection bias that may lie with more tenured individuals.
The obvious drawback of this study is self-selection bias.
 
 
 
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