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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Heckman model"”.
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A transaction costs explanation of inter-local government collaboration.
This study develops a model of collaboration choice among city governments. The theoretical model suggests that collaboration is a function of transaction costs that vary with different institutional arrangements utilized in cities, as well as the degree of competition between cities. This study …
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Human Rights and the Strategic Use of US Foreign Food Aid
… food aid, is supported by results from a Heckman model. This procedure models the two-stage decision-making process where foreign policymakers first, select countries for aid and then, distribute aid to those selected.
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The Impact of Bankruptcy Exemptions for Retirement Assets
… risk. To address our hypothesis, we run a Heckman model on the Survey of Consumer Finances data. Our results provide evidence to match our theory for only highly educated or financially sophisticated individuals, conditional on owning retirement assets. That is, we observe highly educated …
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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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Gender and education : a microeconometric analysis of returns to education in Nigeria
… strategy. This involves applying the Mincerian model as a benchmark strategy, the Heckman model to correct for sample selection bias, and the Instrumental Variable model, using distance to the nearest primary and secondary schools as instruments, to accurately estimate returns. Second, by …
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Essays on Societal Cost of Alcohol and Related Issues - A Health Economic Analysis
… estimations. By applying a multinomial logit model, it is found that pooled drinking groups (current abstainers and light drinkers) are heterogeneous, and that this might implicate estimation bias due to confounding and misclassification. This study thus argues that it is imperative to account …
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Analysing the effect of taxation on consumer behaviour in the tourism industry.
… EU, with key conditional variables based on the Heckman model, with the decision to participate and spend on domestic tourism. The analysis is conducted on the full sample and disaggregated into different EU macro-regions. For the macroeconomic analysis, this research argues that tourism tax …