Dagum and Slottje (2000) estimated household Human Capital (HC) as a Latent Variable (LV) proposing its monetary estimation by means of an actuarial approach. This paper introduces an improved method for the estimation of household HC as LV by means of formative and reflective indicators in...

The present paper addresses in detail the specification of a model that values the effectiveness of institutional plans within clinical or epidemiologist projects previewing the supply of a service to the person and jointly the effectiveness of agencies (Agents) that distribute the same service...

In this paper we provide an overview of some trend models formulated for global and local estimation. Global trend models are based on the assumption that the trend or nonstationary mean of a time series can be approximated closely by simple functions of time over the entire span of the series....