@ARTICLE{HeckmaHonore90,
author =       {Heckman, James J. and Honore, Bo E.},
title =        {The Empirical Content of the Roy Model},
journal =      {Econometrica},
year =         {1990},
volume =       {58},
number =       {5},
pages =        {1121-49},
month =        {September},
note =         {},
abstract =     {This paper explores the robustness of the essential economic conclusions of the Roy model of self-selection and income inequality to relaxation of its normality assumptions. A log concave version of the model reproduces most of the main results. Log convex cases offer counterexamples. The authors show that in a Roy economy, random assignment is inegalitarian and Pareto inefficient. They consider nonparametric identifiability of latent skill distributions with cross-section and panel data. The authors' analysis proves nonparametric identifiability for the closely related competing risks model.},
keywords =     {Labor Economics: Theory and Empirical Studies Illustrating Theory},
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}