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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Double hurdle model"”.
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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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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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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
… production using fixed effects and multilevel models. The study finds that fertilizer use is generally unprofitable at prevailing market conditions when one assumes farmers incur positive transaction costs in the use of fertilizer. The main factor that drives low fertilizer profitability is low …
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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
… migration) using discrete choice models. The study begins by investigating migration as a whole and then looks at the more disaggregate choice. On the snapshot of migration as a whole we detect an intriguing size-composition effect on the household’s probability of migration: the …