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In programming, a variable used only within the routine or function it is defined in. When the function is finished and control is returned back to the part of the program that called it, the ...

KEVIN A. CLARKE, The Phantom Menace: Omitted Variable Bias in Econometric Research, Conflict Management and Peace Science, Vol. 22, No. 4, SPECIAL ISSUE: Model Specification and Control Variables ...