Search Results - subject:"Probit Model"

The effect of income on positive and negative subjective well-being

Boes, Stefan; Winkelmann, Rainer - 2006

Increasing evidence from the empirical economic and psychological literature suggests that positive and negative well-being are more than opposite ends of the same phenomenon. Two separate measures of the dependent variable may be needed when analyzing the determinants of subjective well-being....

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The erosion of union membership in Germany: determinants, densities, decompositions

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kohn, Karsten; Wang, Qingwei - 2006

Union density in Germany has declined remarkably during the last two decades. We estimate socio-economic and workplace-related determinants of union membership in East and West Germany using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel by means of Chamberlain-Mundlack correlated random effects...

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Who Invests in Training if Contracts are Temporary? - Empirical Evidence for Germany Using Selection Correction

Sauermann, Jan - 2006

), we estimate a bivariate probit model to control for selection effects that may arise from unobservable factors, affecting …

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The Erosion of Union Membership in Germany: Determinants, Densities, Decompositions

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kohn, Karsten; Wang, Qingwei - 2006

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Are Urban Consumers in China Ready to Accept Biotech Foods?

Lin, William W.; Somwaru, Agapi; Tuan, Francis; Huang, Jikun - 2006

Based on a large-scale survey conducted in 11 large and small eastern cities in 2002, this study employs ordered probit models to estimate the effects of demographic and socio-economic variables on the likelihood of biotech food acceptance in China. This study also employs a dichotomous choice...

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Style of practice and assortative mating: a recursive probit analysis of cesarean section scheduling in Italy

Fabbri, Daniele; Monfardini, Chiara - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2006

. Adopting a novel perspective, we look at the role played by patients’ preferences for the treatment. The recursive probit model …

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Which Italian Family Farms Will Have a Successor?

Corsi, Alessandro - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006

The succession in family farm is a critical issue: it not only involves the transmission of wealth, but also of specific skills and of specific farm management techniques. Since a large share of farmers in Italy are old, the lack of prospective successors in their farms would imply that a change...

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Who Invests in Training if Contracts are Temporary? - Empirical Evidence for Germany Using Selection Correction

Sauermann, Jan - Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle (IWH) - 2006

), we estimate a bivariate probit model to control for selection effects that may arise from unobservable factors, affecting … patterns of worker and firm. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we estimate a bivariate probit model to …, fixed-term contracts, bivariate probit model JEL-Codes: C35, J24, J42 ∗ Jan Sauermann, Halle Institute for Economic Research …

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Etilé, Fabrice; Milcent, Carine - HAL - 2006

This paper tests for income-related reporting heterogeneity in self-assessed health (SAH). It also constructs a synthetic measure of clinical health to decompose the effect of income on SAH into an effect on clinical health (which is called a health production effect) and a reporting...

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Fluctuations and persistence in poverty: a transient-chronic decomposition model for pseudo-panel data

Ribas, Rafael Perez; Machado, Ana Flávia; Golgher, … - Centro de Desenvolvimento e Planejamento Regional … - 2006

matrix with the application of a bivariate probit model with endogenous switching for grouped data. It was chosen as the …

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