Supplement to “ Complementarity and aggregate implications of assortative matching : A nonparametric analysis ”
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چکیده
In this appendix, we state a number of preliminary results that will be used in the proofs of the four theorems in the main text. Detailed proofs of the results listed below may be found in Appendix C below. The proofs of the main results are given in Appendix B. The proof of Theorem 4.1 uses Lemmas A.1 and A.2 below. Theorems 5.1 and 5.2 use Lemmas A.3–A.12, A.14, A.15, Theorem A.2, and Lemmas A.16–A.18. Theorem 5.3 uses Lemmas A.9–A.12, A.14, Theorem A.3, and Lemmas A.24–A.28. Theorem 5.4 uses Lemmas A.9–A.14, Theorem A.1, and Lemmas A.19–A.23.
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