Search Results - subject:"Multinomial logit"

Maintaining symmetry of simulated likelihood functions

Andersen, Laura Mørch - Institut for Fødevare- og Ressourceøkonomi, … - 2010

This paper suggests solutions to two different types of simulation errors related to Quasi-Monte Carlo integration. Likelihood functions which depend on standard deviations of mixed parameters are symmetric in nature. This paper shows that antithetic draws preserve this symmetry and thereby...

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Disentangling Purchasing Motives from Socio-demographic Differences: The case of Organic Milk

Andersen, Laura Mørch - Institut for Fødevare- og Ressourceøkonomi, … - 2010

Using a unique data set where an unbalanced panel of more than 1,000 households have reported their purchases of groceries in great detail over a period of six months it is shown that consumption of organic milk increases significantly with level of education, urbanisation and income. Age and...

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Family life in power couples.

Dribe, Martin; Stanfors, Maria - In: Demographic Research 23 (2010) 30, pp. 847-878

This article studies continued childbearing and union stability among "power couples," or dual-career couples. The determinants of these events are analysed multivariately using longitudinal data on couples from population registers in Sweden, 1991â€“2005. Power couples are identified using...

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Attribute processing in environmental choice analysis: implications for willingness to pay

Campbell, Danny; Lorimer, Victoria; Aravena, Claudia; … - Agricultural Economics Society - AES - 2010

Data from a discrete choice experiment is used to investigate the implications of failing to account for attribute processing strategies (APSs). The research was designed to elicit the economic benefits associated with landscape restoration activities that were intended to remediate...

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Growth of German dairy farms under the EU milk quota

Breustedt, Gunnar; Mees, Martin - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2010

-of-sample maximum. We corrected for selection bias by means of a multinomial logit model which explains the choice among different …

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Como aposentadorias e pensões afetam a educação e o trabalho de jovens do domicílio

Hoffman, Rodolfo - In: Revista Economia e Sociedade 39 (2010) 5, pp. 9-9

using a multinomial logit model. Using data from the 2006 Brazilian National Household Sample Survey, it is shown that the …

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Occupational segregation and gender wage differences: evidence from Urban Colombia

Castro, Jairo Gillermo Isaza - CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN VIOLENCIA, INSTITUCIONES Y … - 2010

are modelled using a multinomial logit model in the first stage. In the second stage, the multinomial logit estimates are …

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Risk Perceptions and Risk Management Strategies in French Oyster Farming

Guillotreau, Patrice; Bihan, Véronique Le; Pardo, Sophie - HAL - 2010

mechanisms. Factor and econometric analyses (logit and ordered multinomial logit models) have shown that a number of socio …

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Discrete choice models, which one performs better?

Gallardo, Rosa Karina; Chang, Jae Bong - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010

For over the last thirty years the multinomial logit model has been the standard in choice modeling. Development in … realistically choice behavior. This study compares three discrete choice models, the standard multinomial logit, the error … found that the multinomial logit model outperformed in at least one of three evaluations in both datasets. Overall, findings …

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Determinants of different modes of Japanese foreign direct investment in the United States

Alba, Joseph D.; Park, Donghyun; Wang, Peiming - 2010

There are four major modes through which firms undertake foreign direct investment (FDI): merger and acquisition (M&A), joint venture, new plant, and others. The four modes of FDI are distinct from each other, and each has its own unique advantages and disadvantages. While a large and growing...

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