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Smoking initiation : peers and personality

Hsieh, Chih-sheng; Van Kippersluis, Hans - 2015

Social interactions are generally thought to play an important role in smoking initiation among adolescents. In this … endogenous peer effect. We show that peer effects in the uptake of smoking are predominantly affecting individuals who are … helps understanding heterogeneity in peer effects, but additionally provides a promising mechanism through which personality …

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Examining the structure of spatial health effects in Germany using Hierarchical Bayes Models

Eibich, Peter; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2013

This paper uses Hierarchical Bayes Models to model and estimate spatial health effects in Germany. We combine rich individual-level household panel data from the German SOEP with administrative county-level data to estimate spatial county-level health dependencies. As dependent variable we use...

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Examining the structure of spatial health effects using hierarchical Bayes models : conference paper

Eibich, Peter; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2013 - This version: November 11, 2012

This paper makes use of Hierarchical Bayes Models to model and estimate spatial health effects. We focus on Germany, combining rich individual-level household panel data with administrative county level information to estimate spatial county-level health dependencies. As dependent variable, we...

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Examining the structure of spatial health effects in Germany using Hierarchical Bayes Models

Eibich, Peter; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2013

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When Harry bet with Sally : an empirical analysis of multiple peer effects in casino gambling behavior

Park, Hee Mok; Manchanda, Puneet - In: Marketing science 34 (2015) 2, pp. 179-194

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A Heterogeneous Bayesian Regression Model for Cross-Sectional Data Involving a Single Observation Per Response Unit

Fong, Duncan K. H.; Ebbes, Peter; DeSarbo, Wayne S. - 2013

Multiple regression is frequently used across the various social sciences to analyze cross-sectional data. However, it can often times be challenging to justify the assumption of common regression coefficients across all respondents. This manuscript presents a heterogeneous Bayesian regression...

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A Bayesian Measure of Poverty in the Developing World

Lubrano, Michel - 2018

We propose a new methodology to revise the international poverty line (IPL) after Ravallion et al. (2009) using the same database, but augmented with new variables to take into account social inclusion in the definition of poverty along the lines of Atkinson and Bourguignon (2001). We provide an...

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Revisiting Inequality as a Determinant of Mortality : A Bayesian Model Averaging Approach

Schneider, Markus P. A. - 2016

The persistent correlations between income and mortality, and inequality and mortality in the US is well established. It has been demonstrated with various empirical models at different levels of analysis. However, there is no consensus on the relevant confounding factors or even the functional...

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Regional Income Convergence in India : A Bayesian Spatial Durbin Model Approach

Soundararajan, Pushparaj - 2013

The discussion on regional disparity is essential for addressing politically sensitive policy issues in any federal polity. The research outcome of regional disparity analysis is, however, often ambiguous and is not robust to choice of strategies, namely β and σ convergence analysis. The...

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Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Britain : Evidence from a Bayesian Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Analysis

Chib, Siddhartha - 2011

In this paper we reevaluate the returns to education based on the increase in the compulsory schooling age from 14 to 15 in the UK in 1947. We provide a Bayesian fuzzy regression discontinuity approach to infer the effect on earnings for a subset of subjects who turned 14 in a narrow window...

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