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Showing 1 to 20 of 98 for “"Probit Model"”.
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Prediction of going-concern status: a probit model for the auditors
… inadequate and existing going-concern prediction models are flawed. In view of this, the objective of the dissertation is to construct a going-concern prediction model (hereafter called the Koh model) that is based upon improved statistical techniques and methodology. A sample of 165 companies …
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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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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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Meeting the Demand for Local Food in West Virginia: An analysis of factors influencing producers' market participation and expansion decisions
… addition to expansion among current producers. Models of market participation behavior and supply response, using a probit model and OLS regression, indicated significant influence of motivational factors such as reasons for entering farming, influence of social context, and attitudes towards …
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Peruvian Food Insecurity in The Face of Recurrent Natural Disasters: A Two-Step Adoption Analysis for Improved Potato Varieties
… The assessment focused on a two-step adoption model, adoption and dis-adoption, by utilizing a Heckman Probit model to demonstrate two-steps of the adoption process. The Heckman Probit model was used to analyze variables affecting adoption and dis-adoption of improved varieties. Results suggest …
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Modeling and Analysis of Repeated Ordinal Data Using Copula Based Likelihoods and Estimating Equation Methods
… dissertation discusses the multivariate ordered probit model which is a likelihood method based on latent variables. We show that this latent variable model belong to a very general class of <em>Copula</em> models. We use the copula representation for the multivariate ordered probit model to …
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Exploring Potential Innovative Marketing Approaches for US Agribusinesses
… by survey data collection and analysis using a probit model to assess the interest in hosting an AgCache. For the specialty crops marketing channel, a probit model was utilized in order to assess the barriers faced by small-scale specialty crop producers as well as their interests in selling to …
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ANALYSIS OF FACTORS INFLUENCING THE PARTICIPATION RATE OF ENTERPRISE ANNUITY
… 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 also …
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The economics of climate change vulnerability, adaptation and mitigation in Tanzania
… is corrected using a Heckman sample selection model. A binary probit model is used as a selection equation to investigate the factors influencing a farmer’s decision to undertake any adaptation at all to climate change while a multinomial probit model is used as an outcome equation to …
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An assessment of conservation agriculture adaption by smallholder farmers : a case of Goromanzi, Zimbabwe
… study were descriptive statistics, the ordinal probit model and thematic analysis. The results show that 83% of the farmers are already practising CA based on the three principles, whereas 2% adopted soil cover and minimum soil disturbance, 2% adopted crop rotation and minimum soil disturbance, …
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Farmland Conservation Easement Valuation Using an Attribute-based Choice Survey: Comparing Preferences within the United States, Georgia, Ohio and Maine
… 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, and cost …
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The Economic Impact of Peanut Research on the Poor: The Case of Resistance Strategies to Control Peanut Viruses in Uganda
… aggregate benefits in an economic surplus model. A probit model is used to identify the determinants of adoption using household data. Information regarding the determinants of adoption is combined with impacts of technology on the cost of production to identify income changes for adopting …
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Non-performing bank loans and banking crisis in the Pakistani banking system
… as well as the application of the ordered probit model which has not been used previously in studies relating to the banking crises and non-performing bank loans, have been used for analysing the survey data. It was found that the banking sector has been riddled with the problems of poor …
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Strategies of the unemployed: does moving allow the unemployed to get ahead?
… faced with persistent unemployment. We use a probit model to show that the unemployed who move in a successive wave are more likely to be employed. The effect of moving on employment status remains significant and positive when we take into account household and individual characteristics. …
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Essays on the labour market in Ghana
… and job expectations of the unemployed using a probit model. The results show that unemployment is inequitably distributed in Ghana with the incidence of unemployment highest among the youth, medium educated, Christian, single, residents of Accra and urban dwellers, all of which have plausible …
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The Effects of International Remittances on Child Schooling in Ecuador
… analyzes, through the use of an instrumented probit model, how the probability of children attending school changes when the household receives remittances and when other variables are accounted for. Data from the 2010 Ecuadorean Housing and Population Census was used to examine this …
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Intergenerational Transmission of Religion: Does Mother's Working Behaviour Make a Difference?
… 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 probit …
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Multiclass Origin-Destination Estimation Using Multiple Data Types
… This thesis proposes a bilevel optimization model and corresponding solution method for static multi-class O-D estimation using various types of data. Limited memory BFGS method with bounded constraints is used for solving the upper level optimization, which is used to derive O-D table …
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The determinants and impact of short-term business insurance on SMEs in South Africa
… are positively and significantly related. A probit model is used to determine the probability of business insurance take-up and a multiple regression is run to identify the effect of business insurance on firm performance. An IV is also run to control for potential endogeneity. Race, funeral …
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Effects of land tenure on soil and water conservation measures in Tanzania?s Kigoma Region
… Right of Occupancy (CCRO). A heteroskedastic probit model shows that CCROs are significantly, positively associated with tree planting. This demonstrates that a stronger land tenure programme can increase the use of long-term SWC measures on small-scale farms in Tanzania.
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