Search Results - subject:"tobit models"

The Wooldridge Method for the Initial Values Problem Is Simple: What About Performance?

Akay, Alpaslan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Classification: C23, C25 Keywords: initial values problem, dynamic probit and tobit models, Monte Carlo experiment, Heckman … decisions of married women in Sweden between 1992 and 2001. Section 5 concludes. 6 2 The dynamic probit and tobit models and … for dynamic panel data random-e�ects probit or tobit models but also for many other dynamic nonlinear panel data models …

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Aid allocation through various official and private channels: need, merit and self-interest as motives of German donors

Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes - 2009

Tobit models to assess the relative importance of recipient need, recipient merit and self-interest of donors for various …

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Is NGO aid not so different after all? Comparing the allocation of Swiss aid by private and official donors

Nunnenkamp, Peter; Weingarth, Janina; Weisser, Johannes - 2008

Being closer to the poor, NGOs are widely believed to provide better targeted aid than state agencies. But empirical evidence is largely lacking. We contribute to closing this gap by drawing on an exceptionally detailed Swiss database that covers different forms of NGO aid and several official...

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Le consentement des ménages ruraux à payer une prime d'assurance maladie en Côte d'Ivoire

Coffie Francis José N’Guessan - In: Revue d’économie du développement 16 (2008) 1, pp. 101-124

Since the implementation of the recovery cost policy in developing countries health sectors, the recourse of health care has decreased. This is why, some countries like Côte d?Ivoire decided to settle a social health insurance scheme to improve the access of health services. Generally, the...

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To certify or not to certify? Separating the organic production and certification decisions

Veldstra, Michael D.; Alexander, Corinne E.; Marshall, … - In: Food Policy 49 (2014) P2, pp. 429-436

This article separates the decision to be certified organic into the decision to use organic practices and the subsequent decision to certify those practices, using data from a survey of US fruit and vegetable producers. We document that many producers are using organic practices but choosing...

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Preferences for Livestock Revenue Insurance Among Beef Producers

Fields, Deacue; Gillespie, Jeffrey M. - In: Journal of Agribusiness 25 (2007) 1

insurance policies for these producers. Two-limit tobit models were estimated. Producers were segmented using cluster analysis …

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The internationalization of the Spanish Manufacturing Firm: Effect of the specific and generic human capital.

Rodríguez, José López - In: Cuadernos de Gestión 6 (2006) 1, pp. 11-26

The efficiency and competitive capacity of firms depend besides other factors on the quality of the human capital which they have. Thus the objective of this work is to analyze the effect of the firm’s human capital in the decision to enter into the international markets like in the intensity...

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La internacionalización de la empresa manufacturera española: Efectos del capital humano genérico y específico

López Rodríguez, José - In: Cuadernos de Gestión (2006)

[ES] La eficiencia y capacidad competitiva de las organizaciones depende ԡdemás de otros factoresԠde la calidad del capital humano de que disponen. Así, el objetivo de este trabajo es analizar el efecto del capital humano de la empresa tanto en la decisión de entrar en los mercados...

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The Determinants of Capital Structure: Evidence from an Economy without Stock Market

Munyo, Ignacio - Econometric Society - 2004

This paper analyzes the determinants of the sources of funding for the firms of an economy without stock market. Once the available and relevant financial sources for a Uruguayan firm are defined, their determinants are analyzed through cross section econometric models. The analysis casts out...

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Modelling aid allocation: Issues, approaches and results

McGillivray, Mark - 2003

There is a widespread view that political criteria have received less emphasis in aid allocation since the end of the cold war, with a greater share of aid subsequently being based on developmental criteria. An observed increase in aid effectiveness is attributed to this shift. A reasonably...

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