Kirwan, Barrett E.; Martens, Andrea - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011
network size and exit likelihood is due to the unobserved confounder--farmer ability--not the effect of network size on exit … likelihood. Recognizing the endogeneity of alliance network size when determining a farm’s survival likelihood, we employ an … unobserved, time-varying confounding factors by including alliance network size as a control variable. As a control variable …