A two-step generalized method of moments estimation procedure can be made robust to heteroskedasticity and autocorrelation in the data by using a nonparametric estimator of the optimal weighting ...

Relatedness between individuals is central to ecological genetics. Multiple methods are available to quantify relatedness from molecular data, including method-of-moment and maximum-likelihood ...

Econometric Theory provides an authoritative outlet for original contributions in all of the major areas of econometrics. As well as articles that embody original theoretical research, the journal ...

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