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VaccinesObjectives: Hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection is associated with severe hepatitis and high mortality rates, yet vaccination coverage remains suboptimal.
Yuanqiong Chen +8 more
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Evolving agglomeration in the U.S. auto supplier industry [PDF]
Using nonparametric descriptive tools developed by Duranton and Overman (2005), we show that both new and old auto supplier plants are highly concentrated in the eastern United States. Conditional logit models imply that much of this concentration can be
Daniel McMillen, Thomas H. Klier
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Adaptive Bayesian Estimation of Conditional Densities
, 2016 We consider a non-parametric Bayesian model for conditional densities. The model is a finite mixture of normal distributions with covariate dependent multinomial logit mixing probabilities.
Norets, Andriy, Pati, Debdeep
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Journal of Forecasting, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Most studies on inflation forecasts have studied behavioral biases, informational frictions, or external shocks in isolation, without considering how these factors jointly drive deviations from rational expectations. We therefore adopt an integrated framework that simultaneously estimates the behavioral, informational, and external ...
Belen Chocobar, Peter Claeys
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Towards sustainable energy selection for ships in response to maritime regulation
Asian Journal of Shipping and LogisticsShip owners and operators are continuously seeking financially viable ways to comply with the Sulphur emission limits set out by the IMO, which calls for a reduction of sulphur content in ship fuel to less than 0.5 % in 2020.
Mohammed Mojahid Hossain Chowdhury +4 more
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Neighbourhood Choice and Neighbourhood Reproduction [PDF]
Although we know a lot about why households choose certain dwellings, we know relatively little about the mechanisms behind neighbourhood choice. Most studies of neighbourhood choice only focus on one or two dimensions of neighbourhoods: typically ...
Bergström, Lina +2 more
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Health Preferences and Sorting in the City
Health Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT There are large health inequalities between neighborhoods in many cities of the world. This paper studies individuals' sorting based on health amenities and exposes an important connection between health preferences and the housing market. I estimate a neighborhood choice model using geolocated data from a health survey in New York City and ...
Manuela Puente‐Beccar
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Do environmental regulations affect the location decisions of multinational gold mining firms? [PDF]
, 2008 This paper empirically analyzes the location decisions of the world's major gold mining …rms using a data set of political, economic, regulatory, infrastructural and investment risk variables observed for a large number of gold producing countries since ...
Koop, G.M., Tole, L.A.
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Relaxing the IIA Assumption in Locational Choice Models: A Comparison Between Conditional Logit, Mixed Logit, and Multinomial Probit Models [PDF]
, 2003 This paper estimates a locational choice model to assess the demand for local public services, using a data set where individuals chooses between 26 municipalities within a local labor market. We assess the importance of the IIA assumption by comparing the predictions of three difference models; the conditional logit (CL) model, the mixed logit (MXL ...
Dahlberg, Matz, Eklöf, Matias
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Health Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Evidence on the relationship between public health expenditure and health is mixed and particularly scarce for low‐income countries. Existing studies overlook the subnational distribution of expenditure and rarely distinguish between sources and governance over funding.
Eliana Chavarría‐Pino +3 more
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