This paper proposes a new method for estimating random coefficients logit models using aggregate data. The method is applicable for models with discrete-type heterogeneity in consumer tastes when additional data on the total sales for each consumer type are available. The type-level data do not...

The availability of longitudinal data allows researchers to analyse the dynamics of poverty. By using the Turkish Statistical Institute's (TurkStat) Income and Living Conditions Survey micro dataset, we analyse the households' long-term monetary poverty conditions. We categorise poverty as...

This paper introduces a new shifted negative log-normal distribution for the price parameter in Mixed Multinomial logit models. The new distribution, labelled as the u-shifted negative log-normal distribution, has desirable properties for welfare analysis and in particular a point-mass which is...

The question of how people revise their decisions about whether to emigrate, and where to, when facing changes in the global environment is of critical importance in migration literature. We propose a cross-nested logit (CNL) approach to generalize the way deviations from the IIA (independence...

Rural households’ multidimensional poverty is still widespread and severe everywhere. For instance, worldwide a total of 1.45 billion people from 103 countries are multidimensional poor, most MPI poor people (72%) of them live-in middle-income countries. In East Africa, 559 million (42%)...

There are two possible reasons for unionized workers to have lower quit rates than otherwise comparable nonunion workers: unions could organize employees with innately lower propensities to quit or they could reduce propensities by offering disgruntled workers alternatives to quitting in the...

We propose a recursive logit model which captures the notion of choice aversion by imposing a penalty term that accounts for the dimension of the choice set at each node of the transportation network. We make three contributions. First, we show that our model overcomes the correlation problem...