Authors
Richard Blundell
CPP Co-Director
Richard is Co-Director of the Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP) and Senior Research Fellow at IFS.
Frank Windmeijer
Research Fellow University of Bristol
Suggested citation
Blundell, R and Windmeijer, F. (1997). 'Cluster effects and simultaneity in multilevel models' (1997)
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