Search Results - subject:"Multivariate Probit"

Smoking Habits: Like Father, Like Son, Like Mother, Like Daughter

Loureiro, Maria L.; Sanz-de-Galdeano, Anna; Vuri, Daniela - CESifo - 2009

We use instrumental variable methods to investigate whether the impact of parental smoking habits on their children’s smoking decisions is a causal one. We find evidence of same-sex role models in two-parent households: mothers play a crucial role in determining their daughters’ smoking...

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Innovative capability and financing constraints for innovation: More money, more innovation?

Hottenrott, Hanna; Peters, Bettina - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

This study presents a novel empirical approach to identify financing constraints for innovation based on the idea of an ideal test as suggested by Hall (2008). Firms were offered a hypothetical payment and were asked to choose between alternatives of use. If they choose additional innovation...

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MIGRATIONS AND DETERMINANTS OF REMITTANCES TO SOUTHERN MEDITERRANEAN COUNTRIES: WHEN HISTORY MATTERS !

Miotti, Luis; Mouhoud, El Mouhoub; Oudinet, Joel - HAL - 2009

In this paper we analyze the main determinants of migrant's remittances by measuring directly the role of non observable variables related to subjective motivations and historical context of the emigration process. Subjective variables, such as attachment feeling and intent to return to the...

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Determinants and consequences of health behaviour : new evidence from German micro data

Schneider, Brit S.; Schneider, Udo - 2009

The economic costs of chronic health conditions and severe illnesses like diabetes, coronary heart disease or cancer are immense. Several clinical trials give information about the importance of individual behaviour for the prevalence of these illnesses. Changes in health relevant behaviour may...

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Evaluating simulation-based approaches and multivariate quadrature on sparse grids in estimating multivariate binary probit models

Abay, Kibrom A. - In: Economics Letters 126 (2015) C, pp. 51-56

integration problems involving higher dimension multivariate probit models, and those with strong dependence among variables, the …

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A Bayesian method for analyzing combinations of continuous, ordinal, and nominal categorical data with missing values

Zhang, Xiao; Boscardin, W. John; Belin, Thomas R.; Wan, … - In: Journal of Multivariate Analysis 135 (2015) C, pp. 43-58

models for multivariate continuous measures, multivariate probit models for correlated ordinal measures, and multivariate … continuous vector comprised of continuous variables and those underlying normal variables for ordinal variables from multivariate … probit models and for categorical variables from multinomial probit models. We develop a Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC …

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Media channels and consumer purchasing decisions

Woo, JongRoul; Ahn, Joongha; Lee, Jongsu; Koo, Yoonmo - In: Industrial Management & Data Systems 115 (2015) 8, pp. 1510-1528

consumer deciding to purchase a specific product. Design/methodology/approach – Using a consumer survey and a multivariate … probit (MVP) model, the authors explore consumer information searches related to purchases in nine categories: milk, instant …

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Consumers' literacy and preferences for sustainability labels : an exploratory analysis on Italian young adults

Vecchio, Riccardo; Annunziata, Azzurra; Krystallis, … - In: International journal of globalisation and small … 7 (2015) 3/4, pp. 221-233

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Evaluating simulation-based approaches and multivariate quadrature on sparse grids in estimating multivariate binary probit models

Abay, Kibrom A. - In: Economics letters 126 (2015), pp. 51-56

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376393

Determinantes de la elección de participación e ingresos en diferentes categorías de empleo en sectores rurales de Chile

Rodriguez, C.; Lopez de Lerida, J. - 2008

Published by Asociación de Economistas Agrarios de Chile

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