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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Sorting Model"”.
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Matrix estimation with latent permutations
… In this work, we consider three specific models: the statistical seriation model, the noisy sorting model and the strong stochastic transitivity model. First, statistical seriation consists in permuting the rows of a noisy matrix in such a way that all its columns are approximately …
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Migration, Polarization, and Sorting in the American Electorate
… with location choice, this paper proposes a sorting model based on the composition of migrants' political preferences. </p><p>Sorting is defined as the increase in the variation of a parameter of preference distributions of different location, in the absence of individual preference change. …
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Spatial processes in environmental economics: empirics and theory
… estimation, policy evaluation and prediction in models of economic activity. This thesis is comprised of two parts. Part I presents a broad range of issues that arise in estimation due to space and frames these as general spatial omitted variables. I explore the use of semi-parametric estimators …
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Size-selective sediment transport and cross-shore profile evolution in the nearshore zone
… A new, comprehensive cross-shore morphodynamic model was developed that can be used to describe and predict these phenomena. The study included both physical and numerical models that were designed to focus on the influence of sediment size characteristics on the cross-shore sediment transport …
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The career pursuits of engineering students : inquiries into options, informedness, and intentions at the education-careers interface
… by constructing a multivariate occupational sorting model for engineering students that incorporates factors shown in prior studies to be associated with students' occupational outcomes. We empirically validated this model using survey data from a sample of 1,061 senior year engineering …
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Essays on Environmental Economics with a Focus on Non-market Valuation
… the housing market of Milwaukee, WI. Residential sorting model embedded with "horizontal preference structure" is established to estimate the heterogeneous preferences for tree cover and other land cover attributes that vary by household socio-economic characteristics and then to identify the …
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Responding to Natural Hazards: The Effects of Disaster on Residential Location Decisions and Health Outcomes
… to live in lower hazard-risk areas. A model of residential location choice is developed in which households select the location that maximizes expected utility. Empirical estimates are obtained using a two-stage estimation process that exploits spatial variation in labor markets, …
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Three Essays on Robust Estimation of Key Factors Underlying the Changes to the U.S. Income Distribution
… of the Linear Unconditional Quantile Regression model proposed by Firpo, Fortin and Lemieux (2009). The main contribution of this chapter is to determine the role of unionization in explaining the rising wage gap between the upper and lower tails of the U.S. wage distribution function during the …