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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Double hurdle"”.
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The economics of alcohol : a collection of essays
… different methods including the Tobit and Double-Hurdle models to estimate the mean price elasticity of demand for alcohol. In doing so, it tests how the price elasticity estimates can differ depending on model choice, even when the same data is used. Household expenditure data contains a …
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Three case studies on the impact of inequality on agricultural efficiency, productivity, and the adoption and intensity of use of climate-smart practices
… farmers from the same Peruvian region and a double-hurdle modelling approach, finding a negative effect of land inequality (measured by the Gini index and the Kakwani relative land deprivation index) on the probability of adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices.
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Subsidies, aquaculture technology adoption, and welfare impacts in Ghana and Kenya
… of this dissertation applies the lognormal double hurdle model to a cross-section of fish farms to analyze commercial demand for improved feed, and whether the government feed subsidy program influences private demand for the feed. The results indicate that households’ decisions to …
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Drivers of smallholder adoption and the intensity of conservation agriculture in the Masvingo District of Zimbabwe
… of use and intensity were identified using a double hurdle model. Although most smallholders implemented the reduced tillage component of CA, only a few implemented all three components. Farm size and experience with CA technology impacted positively on the current use of CA. Distance from …
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Effects of Subsidized inputs on legume production in Zambia
… post harvest survey. The study employs Cragg’s double hurdle (DH) model. Our results show that there is a general decline in the area allocated to legumes production among smallholder farm households since the introduction of maize subsidies. However, the econometric results show input subsidies …
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Essays on Farm Household Decision-Making: Evidence from Vietnam
… is tested in three models (the Tobit, Heckit and double-hurdle models), in which the dependent variables are examined for two stages of decision-making, including the probability of participation and the extent of participation. Empirical evidence supports the hypothesis that child labour …
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Exclusivity, Bundling and Switching in Communications Markets
… The study uses a novel application of a double-hurdle model to analyse a cross-sectional dataset of 187 countries featuring industry-speci�c and demographic variables drawn from both o�-the-shelf sources and from an analysis of several hundred individual sources of evidence. The results …
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Essays on Malawian agriculture: Micro-level welfare impacts of agricultural productivity; profitability of fertilizer use; and targeting of fertilizer subsidy programs
… difference in crowding out is estimated with a double hurdle model of demand for commercial, inorganic fertilizer. The results indicate that non-poor farmers are significantly more efficient in the use of inorganic fertilizer, but have significantly higher levels of crowding out, compared to …
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The economics of gambling : a collection of essays
… using both Heckman’s selection model and Cragg’s double hurdle estimator using household-level data. A unique strategy is employed to identify these two-stage routines by exploiting exogenous differences in consumer preference arising from religious practice. The income elasticity of lottery …
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The demand for gambling: Empirical evidence from state-operated lotteries and football pools in Spain
There are several arguments why the economic analysis of gambling seems to be very interesting. Gambling is a very important economic industry from which either local or national governments obtain resources due to some sort of fiscal imposition on gambling participation. On the other hand, the …
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Children, investments in education and poverty in Malawi
… decomposition technique for the independent Double Hurdle model. The proposed decom- position is done at the aggregate and disaggregated levels. The aggregated decomposition allows us to isolate the expenditure differences into a part attributable to differences in characteristics and a part …
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Empirical Essays on Migration and Remittances in Pakistan
… receiving remittances by constructing a Box-Cox double hurdle model for households. The first iii hurdle deals with the decision to receive remittance, and conditional on participation, the hurdle deals with the amount or level of remittances. The first stage regression does reveal household …
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Three essays on the adoption, impact, and pathways of climate-smart agriculture: An ex-post impact evaluation of a natural resource management intervention in southern Malawi
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Essays on transport economics
… of other explanatory variables. Using a double-hurdle type of model, I aim to investigate the socio-demographic and spatial factors that affect the decision whether to travel or not and to model the choice of transportation mode in a second stage. The third issue attempts to answer a …