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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Heckman Selection Model"”.
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Impact of Migration on Welfare of Migrant Sending Households in Selected Rural Areas of Zimbabwe
… a Counterfactual approach and utilized two stage Heckman selection model to control for selection bias. The results indicated that on average, migration impacts household welfare positively but the welfare gains are not evenly distributed among households. Overall, the welfare of households with …
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Racial differences in households' financial asset allocation, 1992-2004
… cash account and other financial asset. Based on Heckman Selection model, the probability of having each financial asset category and the ratio of financial asset invested in each category were regressed on year, race, other demographic variables (age, education, gender, marital status and number …
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UN Peacekeeping Impacts on Human Rights
… and enforcement. The results of a Heckman selection model for 57 countries that have experienced a civil war between 1976 and 2012 suggest peacekeeping does impact human rights performances, although the impact is dissimilar for different types of missions and different types of …
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Three essays on productivity and risk, marketing decisions, and changes in well-being over time
… choice. The first two are analyzed using a Heckman selection model. Results indicate that isolation, measured by population density and distance to markets, negatively impacts market entry. The most important determinant of quantity sold is land holding. Market choices are judged according …
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Corporate litigation, corporate governance restructuring, and executive compensation.
… filings. By employing probit regressions and the Heckman Selection Model, this chapter produces evidence that the filing of lawsuits is associated with an increase in CEO turnover within the defendant companies. The nature of the allegations (particularly securities, intellectual property, and …
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Essays on entrepreneurship and education
… and regular employees. If the signaling model of education is correct, entrepreneurs should receive lower returns from education (relative to employees) because they have no need to signal their productivity to an employer. However, this result should only hold if the researcher is able …
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Adoption Analysis and Impact Evaluation of Potato IPM in Ecuador
… potato production in the province of Carchi. A model is estimated in which IPM adoption is discrete and ordered and pesticides expenditures are estimated as a function of education, farming experience, wealth, plot size and farmer being sick due to pesticide use for each level of IPM adoption. …
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Sustainable metropolitan growth strategies : exploring the role of the built environment
… detailed administrative data to calibrate urban models and support metropolitan planning. I structure this study in three separate essays. In these essays, with several newly available fine-grained administrative datasets and advanced Database Management System (DBMS) and Geographic Information …
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The Political Economy of Organizational Expansion. Finding the Link Between Insider and Outsider in the European Union
… two stages. I test this theory by utilizing a Heckman-Probit-Selection Model, which accounts for this two-stage procedure. The results confirm that conditions are important to avoid costs in the process of expansion.
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Insights from a New Division of the Self-employed: Analysis of Characteristics, Earnings Returns and Labour Market Transitions using the BHPS and UKHLS
… in our sample, using a Multinomial Logit Model. The analysis lends support to our categorisation of the two sets of self-employed workers. The sustained self-employed have characteristics that we more traditionally associate with the self-employed, for instance they are older, more …