Predictor relevance and extramarital affairs Journal Articles

abstract

• AbstractWe revisit Fair's (1978) ‘theory of extramarital affairs’ using robust nonparametric methods developed for the analysis of categorical data. We find evidence suggesting that the number of years married is not a relevant predictor of the propensity to engage in extramarital affairs having controlled for other factors. This finding runs counter to the prevailing wisdom gleaned from misspecified parametric models. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

authors

• Li, QI
• Racine, Jeffrey

status

• published 

publication date

• July 2004

has subject area

• 1402 Applied Economics (FoR)
• 1403 Econometrics (FoR)
• Econometrics (Science Metrix)

published in

• Journal of applied econometrics  Journal

keywords

• Business & Economics
• Economics
• Mathematical Methods In Social Sciences
• NONPARAMETRIC-ESTIMATION
• Social Sciences
• Social Sciences, Mathematical Methods

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1002/jae.777

start page

• 533

end page

• 535

volume

• 19

issue

• 4