Authors
![Richard Blundell](/sites/default/files/styles/square_desktop/public/2024-03/Richard%20Blundell%20Head.jpg?itok=ow7e9OkA)
CPP Co-Director
Richard is Co-Director of the Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP) and Senior Research Fellow at IFS.
![Monica Costa Dias](/sites/default/files/styles/square_desktop/public/2022-07/Monica_Costa_Dias.jpg?itok=bX66ysrB)
Deputy Research Director
Monica is a Deputy Research Director and Professor of Economics at the University of Bristol, with an interest in Labour, Family and Public Economics.
Journal article details
- ISSN
- Print: 0143-5671 Online: 1475-5890
- Issue
- January 2000
Suggested citation
Blundell, R and Costa Dias, M. (2000). 'Evaluation methods for non-experimental data' (2000)
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