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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Switching Regression"”.
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Structural Change in the Retail Demand for Beef, Chicken and Pork: An Application of Gradual Switching Regression (Segmented Regression, Varying Parameters)
… chicken and pork. In particular, two gradual switching regression (GSR) demand models--one which allows a permanent change in income and own-price elasticities and one which allows a permanent change in income, own-price and selected cross-price elasticities--are found to be superior to a …
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Evaluation of the adoption and impact of improved fallow technologies among selected cotton farmers in Zambia
… the propensity score matching and the endogenous switching regression models. The propensity score matching mainly served to provide a high quality sub sample of matched groups of adopters and non-adopters of the technology from which the impact was estimated using endogenous switching regression …
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Evaluation of the adoption and impact of improved fallow technologies among selected cotton farmers in Zambia
… the propensity score matching and the endogenous switching regression models. The propensity score matching mainly served to provide a high quality sub sample of matched groups of adopters and non-adopters of the technology from which the impact was estimated using endogenous switching regression …
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The impact of credit constraints on agricultural productivity in Tanzania
… output value per hectare using an endogenous switching regression model, which simultaneously estimates the likelihood of being credit constrained and its impact on productivity. The results provide evidence that the relaxation of all credit constraints would significantly enhance agricultural …
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Rural credit and agricultural productivity; does access to credit matter? evidence from smallholder maize farmers in Zambia
… maize farmers in Zambia using the Endogenous Switching Regression Model (ESRM) to account for endogeneity in the farmer’s decision to access agricultural credit and consistently predicts productivity of farmers with access to agricultural credit had they not accessed and those without access …
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The impact of new equity financing on firms' investment, dividend and debt-financing decisions
… financing into the model by using a two-stage switching regression model to analyze the interactions among investment, dividend and debt financing decisions given the impact of new equity financing. Unlike the previous studies using American data, this study does not reject MM's independence …
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Factors Underlying Non-Metropolitan-to-Metropolitan Commuting Decisions in Northern Virginia Households
… descriptive statistics, and introduces a switching regression system of equations to simultaneously estimate factors influencing commuting decisions and earnings in non-metropolitan and metropolitan labor markets. Chapter five reports the regression results, and simulates wage gaps and the …
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Edgeworth price cycles in retail gasoline markets
… of Maskin & Tirole [1988b]. I use a Markov switching regression to estimate the prevalence of the regimes, the pattern of markup in each, and the structural characteristics of the price cycles themselves. Retail price cycles prevail in over 40% of the sample. I show they are more prevalent …
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Adoption of Climate-Smart Agricultural Practices and Their Impacts on the Welfare of Livestock Farming Households in Pakistan
… income by using a multinomial endogenous switching regression (MESR) model. The findings show that livestock farmers with joint adoption of CSA practices benefit more than those who do not adopt any or adopt an individual practice. The study further examines the impact heterogeneity in …
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Impacts of Crop Diversification and Household Resilience on Welfare and Child Nutrition in Senegal
… outcomes using a multinomial endogenous switching regression model. The evidence suggests that nutritional gains are most consistently realized once households reach high levels of diversification.
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Empirical Studies in Production Economics and International Agricultural Development Issues
… in Colorado. The first manuscript titled "Switching Regression Stochastic Plateau Production Functions––A Comparison of Alternative Specifications" proposes an alternative approach for estimating crop yield response functions using a frequentist approach. The second manuscript titled …
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An Analysis Of Shift Work: Compensating Differentials And Local Economic Conditions
… from 1990-2000, this paper employs an endogenous switching regression model to analyze wages of day and night shift workers and shift choice. The model is estimated using both the lee two-step method and maximum likelihood. Two measures of local economic conditions, the local unemployment rate and …
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Temporal Issues in Market Inefficiency in asset prices with an emphasis on commodities
… that commodity prices can be estimated using switching-regression models including hidden Markov state-switching models. Instead of estimating Markov transition matrices directly from the estimation procedure, we estimate the transition matrix separately using unit root tests. By restricting …
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Impact of cassava innovations on household productivity and welfare in Uganda
… from Ordinary Least Squares, PSM and Endogenous Switching Regression that use of improved certified cassava seed is productivity- and welfare-enhancing. Finally, the study has contributed to knowledge by providing one of the first sets of empirical evidence to support spousal roles in household …
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Essays on IMF-Supported Programs: Analyses of Selected Issues
… a novel dataset and methodology. We use Markov-Switching regression models to identify episodes of high and low portfolio inflows and investigate the relationship between the existence of IMF programs with the probability of the occurrence of these episodes. We also use an instrumental variable …
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Essays on the Macroeconomic Effects of Imperfect Banking Competition and Other Financial Frictions
… financing than for unconstrained firms, I use a switching regression approach to jointly estimate the two different investment regimes and the probability of each firm being constrained. Firms are classified as financially constrained or unconstrained based on the estimated probabilities. Second, …
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Three essays on the adoption, impact, and pathways of climate-smart agriculture: An ex-post impact evaluation of a natural resource management intervention in southern Malawi
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