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Revealing Demand for Nature Experience Using Purchase Data of Equipment and Lodging
Larsen, Erling Røed - 2001
In 1967, John Krutilla suggested a relationship between car camping, canoe cruising, and cross-country skiing and induced demand for wild, primitive, and wilderness-related opportunities. Here, the time trend of cross-section parameter estimates of the relationship is examined. Households...
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Wealth and Time Preference in Rural Ethiopia
Yesuf, Mahmud; Bluffstone, Randall - 2008
This study measured the discount rates of a sample of 262 farm households in the Ethiopian highlands, using a time preference experiment with real payoffs. In general, the median discount rate was very high—more than double the interest rate on the outstanding debt—and varied systematically...
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Use of Time for Outdoor Recreation in the United States, 1965-2007
Siikamäki, Juha - 2009
This study examines time-use for outdoor recreation during 1965 to 2007. Using data on over 47,000 individuals from six nationally representative time-use surveys, we first document time-use trends between 1965 and 2007. We then develop a two-part instrumental variable censored regression model...
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On the causal effect of schooling on smoking: Evidence without exogeneity conditions
Boes, Stefan - 2011
order to derive testable constraints that bound the effect of schooling on smoking. Data from the Swiss Health Survey …
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Who cares when you close down? The effects of primary care practice closures on patients
Bischof, Tamara; Kaiser, Boris - 2019
This paper investigates the consequences that patients face when their regular primary care provider closes down her practice, typically due to retirement. We estimate the causal impact of closures on patients' utilization patterns, medical expenditures, hospitalizations, and health plan choice....
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Identification of supplier-induced demand: What kind of consumer information matters?
Schmid, Christian - 2013
The focus of the present study is on consumer health information in relation to supplier induced demand (SID). We argue that a comparison between medical professionals and nonmedical professionals fails to identify demand inducement. Using a new information measure based on questions of the...
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ECM-algorithms that converge at the rate of EM
Sexton, Joe; Swensen, Anders Rygh - 1999
This paper describes a way of constructing an ECM algorithm such that it converges at the rate of the EM algorithm. The approach is motivated by the well known conjugate directions algorithm, and a special case of it is when the parameters corresponding to different CM steps are orthogonal....
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Selection upon wage posting
Sticher, Silvio - 2013
. Under competition, what might be called "positive selection" leads to market failure. Thus our model provides a rationale …
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Estimating the additionality of R&D subsidies using proposal evaluation data to control for firms' R&D intentions
Henningsen, Morten S.; Hægeland, Torbjørn; Møen, Jarle - 2012
problems related to selection. A particular worry is that research intentions and the quality of current research ideas may be … potential remedy. Using such data from Norway, we do not find strong evidence suggesting that this type of selection creates a … severe bias. Proposal evaluation grades strongly predict R&D investments and reduce selection bias in cross …
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Compensated discrete choice and the Slutsky equation
Dagsvik, John K. - 2022
Consumers often face choice settings in which alternatives are discrete. Examples include choices between variants of differentiated products, modes of urban transportation, residential locations, etc. In this paper compensated price elasticities and a corresponding(aggregate) Slutsky equation...
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