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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"conditional logit"”.
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Three Essays on Choice -Based Estimations of the Economic Benefits of Contaminated Site Cleanup
… context. The first approach uses the standard conditional logit model. We integrate the market transaction data ex ante into the choice data which results in more realistic choice sets and avoids the problem of perfect collinearity in market data. The second approach focuses on the role of both …
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Analysis off Dependent Discrete Choices Using Gaussian Copula
… product choices of consumers is the well-known conditional logit discrete choice model. Originally publicized by McFadden (1974), this model assumes that the random components of the underlying latent utility functions of the consumers follow independent Gumbel distributions. However, in …
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Essays on Migration, Remittance and Households Consumption, Production and Investment Decision: Evidence from Bangladesh
… essays. In chapter two, we employ multinomial conditional logit estimation to study the risk diversification motive of migration using household level data from Bangladesh. The household as a whole takes migration decisions to maximize expected utility. Risk-averse household allocates its …
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Public Perception of Public Transportation and its Built Environment in the New Haven - Springfield Corridor
… survey software is leveraged to design a conditional and branching survey instrument that allows for adaptive context and control variables. The study fits a conditional logit model to this data, allowing for quantitative comparisons between the built environment through the estimation of …
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Horticultural Producers' Willingness to Adopt Water Recycling Technology in the Mid-Atlantic Region
… and percentage cost increases via a conditional logit model. Two hundred and sixty respondents provide valuable insight into horticultural production in the Mid-Atlantic region. We were unable to calculate the implicit price of water or disease for adoption because the sample of 91 …
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On Demand Mobility Commuter Aircraft Demand Estimation
… analysis for the Washington-Baltimore region. A conditional logit model was developed to estimate mode choice behavior and to estimate ODM demand; presenting automobile and public transportation as the two competing modes to ODM. There are significant challenges associated with the service …
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Disposición a pagar por atributos de calidad de aceite de oliva virgen extra en la Ciudad de Bahía Blanca, Argentina
… análisis descriptivo. Luego, se aplica un Modelo Conditional Logit de efectos principales que permite conocer el aporte de los atributos de calidad seleccionados -sabor, origen geográfico, material del envase y precio- a la utilidad de los consumidores y su disposición a pagar por los mismos. …
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Describing local community acceptance with discrete choice theory for enhanced community engagement
… stakeholder analysis. The results show that the conditional logit model, stratified by question, is the most suitable. The proposed approach has been demonstrated to answer three important questions for enhanced stakeholder analysis: (1) what are the factors that affect stakeholders’ decision and …
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Three papers on the behavior modeling of the shrimp fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico
… three areas: FL, LAM, and TX. For each area a conditional logit and mixed logit based on Random Utility Model are run to analyze the influence of fishermen’s past choice decision on current choice (state dependence), and the fishermen’s difference in preferences (preference heterogeneity). The …
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Conditional, Structural and Unobserved Heterogeneity: three essays on preference heterogeneity in the design of financial incentives to increase weight loss program reach
… The first essay uses a model of heterogeneity conditional on observed individual-specific characteristics to tailor financial incentives to enhance weight loss program participation among target demographics. Financial incentives in weight loss programs have received attention mostly with …
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Economic Evaluation of a Point of Care Pharmacogenetic Test (CYP2C19) from an Ontario Perspective
… 1: $0, $1, and $5 or Version 2: $0, $2 and $10). Conditional logit regression was used to analyze data. Results: Regression coefficients were statistically significant for turnaround times as well as for cost regardless of the sample on which they were calculated. WTP for 1 hour versus a 3 day …
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Analysis of Discrete Choice Probit Models with Structured Correlation Matrices
… models are very popular in Economics and the conditional logit model is the most widely used model to analyze consumer choice behavior, which was introduced in a seminal paper by McFadden (1974). This model is based on the assumption that the unobserved factors, which determine the consumer …
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Social media engagement in a dedicated facebook channel : an analysis of relationships to emotional attachment, self-brand connection and brand commitment towards sports sponsoring brands
… Finally, a discrete choice experiment using a conditional logit model provided insights into the question of whether the ultimate latent variable of the structural equation model – brand commitment – correlates positively with consumer stated choice behaviours. By investigating user engagement …
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Applying economics analysis to the U.S. health care system: evidence from nutrition and home health care
… to improve care. In this study, I use a conditional logit model to explore the effects of star ratings on home health agency (HHA) selection. Overall, the quality-of-care and patient experience star ratings play an important role in patients’ HHA selection process. On average, a one-star …
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Evaluating Responses to Contraflow for Hurricane Evacuation
… these scenarios. This data was used to develop a conditional logit model which predicted choice based on the presented options. Evacuees demonstrated an overall willingness to switch to contraflow lanes when these lanes were less congested than the regular lanes. However, with similar congestion …
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Health and Environmental Benefits of Reduced Pesticide Use in Uganda: An Experimental Economics Analysis
… levels at varying costs. Analysis using the conditional (fixed effects) logit showed that urban subjects highly discount unsafe drinking water, and were willing to pay less for safe agricultural water, a result not unexpected considering that the urban population is not directly involved in …
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Siting Community Wind Farms: An Investigation of NIMBY
Wind energy is expanding rapidly in the United States as the nation\'s energy policy objectives increasingly focus on renewables. Public opinion polls show that a majority of Americans support wind energy development but actual wind farm projects often face intense local opposition. This dichotomy …
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Impact of migration costs, microcredit, and remittances on cross-border labour migration decisions: Evidence from a Cambodian household survey
… on migration decisions. An alternative specific conditional logit model is used in this chapter to account for alternative migration costs, and the control function method is used to control for endogenous moving costs. Our results show that lowering the total cost of labour migration reduces …
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Smoking cessation in South Africa: cigarette prices, plain packaging, and illicit trade
… and perceptions of harm were investigated using conditional logit models. The attributes included packaging, price, and warnings on individual cigarettes. The design of the experiment accounted for illicit cigarettes so as to reflect current market conditions closely. The willingness to pay for …
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