Reliable measures of body composition are essential in order to develop effective policies to tackle the costs of obesity. To date the lack of an acceptable gold-standard for measuring fatness has made it difficult to evaluate alternative measures of obesity. In this paper we draw on work in...

This paper discusses aspects of a framework for modeling labor supply where the notion of job choice is fundamental. In this framework, workers are assumed to have preferences over latent job opportunities belonging to worker-specific choice sets from which they choose their preferred job. The...

Das Buch widmet sich der probabilistischen Testtheorie, die ihren Ursprung in der Psychologie hat. Im Gegensatz zur klasischen Testtheorie, die im wesentlichen auf der Varianzanalyse, Regressionsanalyse und Korrelationsrechnung basiert und die von quantativen Daten ausgeht, geht man bei der...