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Proportional Hazard Model

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This article reviews proportional hazard models and how the thinking about identification and estimation of these models has evolved since the mid-1970s.

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    Jerry A. Hausman & Tiemen M. Woutersen

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Hausman, J.A., Woutersen, T.M. (2018). Proportional Hazard Model. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_2625

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