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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Bivariate probit model"”.
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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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Exploring the relationship between obesity and the probability of gaining employment in the context of the South African labour market
… between obesity and unemployment, two different models are used to assess 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 …
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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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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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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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Essays on Agglomeration, Homeownership, and Labor Market Outcomes
… essay is motivated by the labor market pooling model from Krugman (1991). The paper adds to a small but important literature that provides evidence on the microeconomic foundation of agglomeration economies. Using various years of data from the American Community Survey and the County Business …
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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
… (DAE) and uses a linear programming (LP) model to propose alternative strategies that may extend the total benefits from IPM technologies. Additionally, using data from a household survey, a bivariate probit model and a two-step endogenous participation model are used to identify factors …
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Essays on semi-/non-parametric methods in econometrics
… three chapters focusing on semi-/non-parametric models in econometrics. The first chapter, which is a joint work with Sukjin Han, considers parametric/semiparametric estimation and inference in a class of bivariate threshold crossing models with dummy endogenous variables. We investigate 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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Teaching altruism: essays examining the impact of education on volunteerism among young adults
… school and two years after high school. Using a probit regression framework, this study finds that mandatory service does increase the probability of volunteering during high school; however, the students that are exposed to such a requirement are less likely to report that helping in the …
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Essays on child labour and schooling in Ghana
… the 2013 Ghana Living Standard Survey data. A bivariate probit model is used since the decisions to participate in schooling and in the labour market are interdependent. The results show that there is a gender gap both in child work and schooling. In particular, boys are less likely to work …
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Child wellbeing and economic development: evidence from Indonesia
… health score, this study applies an IV-Poisson model to estimate the effect of child work on mental health. The results reveal that child labour has a substantial negative impact on a child’s long-term mental health status. Moreover, we find heterogeneity in the effect of child labour where …