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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Bivariate probit"”.
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Exploring the relationship between obesity and the probability of gaining employment in the context of the South African labour market
… whether this issue exists for the dataset; a bivariate probit model to assess if there is a bivariate relationship between obesity and employment, and a recursive bivariate probit model to assess if obesity is an endogenous regressor of employment. A change in state univariate probit model is …
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Understanding Food Stamp Program Participation Among Female-Headed Households: Has It Been Affected By Participation In The AFDC/TANF Program?
… 1999 CPS data. Results from using reduced-form probit model, bivariate probit model and structural probit model are compared. The reduced-form probit model considers participation in both programs as functions of all exogenous variables. The bivariate probit model allows correlation between the …
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ANALYSIS OF FACTORS INFLUENCING THE PARTICIPATION RATE OF ENTERPRISE ANNUITY
… micro data CHIP 2018. The analysis uses the "bivariate Probit model", that is, the enterprise level and the individual level, employing 0-1 bivariate as the dependent variables and employee income, employee education, employee gender, enterprise income as independent variables. The analysis …
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Awareness and Willingness to Pay for Moringa as a Leafy Vegetable in Limpopo Province
… Data were analysed with descriptive statistics, Bivariate Probit Regression and Tobit Regression Model. The results indicated that the majority of the respondents had no idea that Moringa could be consumed as a leafy vegetable. However, the results also indicated that the majority of respondents …
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Intergenerational Transmission of Religion: Does Mother's Working Behaviour Make a Difference?
… religious belief and religious practice. Our bivariate probit model shows that a youth whose mother stayed at home during his childhood is more likely to have the same religious affiliation as her, even after controlling for various background factors. Furthermore, estimates using ordered …
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Socio-Economic Determinants of Modern Agricultural Technology Adoption in Multiple Food Crops and Its Impact on Productivity and Food Availability at the Farm-Level: A Case Study from South-Eastern Nigeria
… methods including inferential statistics, bivariate probit model and regression analysis were used in order to achieve the specific objectives and test hypotheses. The results show that sample respondents are dominated by small scale farmers (81% of total) owning land less than 1 ha. The …
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New Economics of Venture Capitalism? Assessing the Role of Remittances on Household Entrepreneurship
… 11,434 households. Analysis is made using a bivariate Probit estimation technique on overall households, as well as female-headed households, who often make up the majority of microenterprise owners and need capital to survive. By using household data, this study takes into account the …
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Hispanic Consumers’ Preferences and Willingness-to-Pay for Grass-Fed Beef in Virginia
… real money, and actual transactions involved. A bivariate Probit model was estimated to determine Hispanic consumers’ visual and taste preferences for grass-fed beef and to explore the relationship between their expected and experienced quality of grass-fed beef. A two-step decision process …
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The Economics Of Individual Philanthropy: Essays On Religiosity, And Charitable Giving By Married Couples
… different levels of religiosity. The results of bivariate probit and tobit analyses show that religious people have a greater propensity to give and higher levels of giving to both religious and secular charitable organizations. A zero-inflated ordered probit model is used to analyze an …
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Role of Environmental Self -Auditing and Audit Policies in Regulatory Compliance
… for a sample of S&P 500 firms, we estimate a bivariate probit model with compliance status and decision to self-audit as two discrete choice variables and a duration model with the length of compliance month as the dependent variable. The empirical analysis controls for the incentives created …
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Parental Schooling And Child Health: Evidence From Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
<p>This study applies bivariate probit models to the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey data set to explore the effects of parental schooling on the physical and mental health of child and the underlying mechanism of the transmission of these beneficial effects. Using the perceived physical and …
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Essays on Agglomeration, Homeownership, and Labor Market Outcomes
… to estimate the effect of homeownership in a bivariate probit model. Based on a sample of married white male household heads from the American Community Survey, the IV result suggests that men who own their homes are 1.2% more likely to be employed relative to those who rent. I also show that …
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The effect of health on the labour force outcome among working age individuals in the UK
… Survey of Aging, I utilised a recursive bivariate probit approach to test for the potential endogeneity of diabetes in employment outcomes. Parental history of diabetes was used as genetic instrumental variables. Results did not suggest that diabetes is endogenous. Investigation was …
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Farmland Conservation Easement Valuation Using an Attribute-based Choice Survey: Comparing Preferences within the United States, Georgia, Ohio and Maine
… areas. Selection bias was tested for using a bivariate probit model with sample selection, a variation on the Heckman correction model. Selection bias was not significant, so the choice model was estimated using a probit model. The response was dependent on the use, location, quality, size, …
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Modeling a Cost-Effective IPM Dissemination Strategy for Vegetables and Rice: An Example in South Asia
… using data from a household survey, a bivariate probit model and a two-step endogenous participation model are used to identify factors that may influence both knowledge and adoption of IPM practices in three regions of Nepal. The results from the LP model suggest that more farmers …
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The Psychological cost of Indebtedness in South Africa - Evidence from NIDS Wave 2 and 4
… firstly use cross-sectional data to estimate a probit model between debt and depression, while controlling for socioeconomic variables on the individual and the household they belong to. The results suggest that indebtedness is positively associated with depression. Debt and depression tend to …
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Essays on semi-/non-parametric methods in econometrics
… estimation and inference in a class of bivariate threshold crossing models with dummy endogenous variables. We investigate the consequences of common practices employed by empirical researchers using this class of models, such as the specification of the joint distribution of the …
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Empirical and behavioural economic applications to the energy sector
… October 2016 to October 2017, together with a bivariate probit model is used. A heterogeneous analysis focused on gender and income differentiated impacts, as well as geographical differences based on the tenancy status of households, is further examined. The results signal that households …
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Three essays analyzing the role of social capital on individual and firm decision making
… to the choice of market channels, and use a bivariate probit specification to model this decision. Empirical evidence indicates that the decision to certify is endogenous to the chosen market channels. We show that farmers selling direct to consumers are less likely to certify organic.</p> …
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Mothers' childcare and labour supply choices: an empirical, comparative analysis between Brazil and United Kingdom
… OECD members (OECD, 2016). To deal with this, bivariate probit and multinomial logit econometric strategies are applied to UK's data to verify the determinants of mothers' preferences for formal childcare and labour supply, considering the use of informal childcare as one of the explanatory …
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