The importance of accounting for unobserved heterogeneity, state-dependence and differences in residual variances across groups: An application to Irish Farmers land market participation decisions [PDF]
working paperLand is an essential input into agricultural production. A grwoing literature is concerned with the factors influencing farmers’ land market participation decisions in developing countries, with developed countries largely ignored. Current
Hanrahan, Kevin, O'Neill, Stephen
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CEO Pay Differences Between US and Non‐US Firms: A New Longitudinal Investigation
ABSTRACT Research Question/Issue Public and academic debates typically portray US CEOs as exceptionally well paid. Yet, evidence on the existence and magnitude of a US CEO pay premium is mixed and dated. This study uses an expanded, longitudinal dataset to identify whether such a pay premium exists and explores potential differences across countries ...
Ruiyuan (Ryan) Chen +3 more
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Bayesian Estimation of The Impacts of Food Safety Information on Household Demand for Meat and Poultry [PDF]
Consumer reaction to changes in the amount of food safety information on beef, pork, and poultry available in the media is the focus of this study. Specifically, any differences in consumer reactions due to heterogeneous household characteristics are ...
Phaneuf, Daniel J., Taylor, Mykel R.
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Class, caste and conspicuous consumption in India
Abstract Using nationally representative household‐level panel data from India, we study status‐signalling through conspicuous consumption across castes, religions and income classes. Conditional on permanent income, scheduled caste (SC) and scheduled tribe (ST) Hindu households spend more, while religious minorities spend less on visible consumption ...
Aruni Mitra, Ronit Mukherji
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Testing identifying assumptions in Tobit Models
We develop sharp, testable implications for the identifying assumptions of Tobit and IV-Tobit models: linear index, (joint) normality of errors, treatment (instrument) exogeneity, and relevance. The new sharp testable equalities can detect all possible observable violations of the identifying conditions.
Acerenza, Santiago +2 more
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Abstract We reconsider one of the most widely studied behavioral biases: anchoring effects. We estimate that study designs in this literature, including replication studies, routinely fail to achieve statistical power of more than 30%. This study replicates an anchoring study that reported an effect size of a 31% increase in participants' bids.
Tongzhe Li +3 more
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New Results On Censored Regression with Applications to Transactions Costs, Household Decisions and Food Purchases [PDF]
We generalize the Tobit censored regression to permit unique unobserved censoring thresholds conditioned by covariates and a set of common response coefficients.
Holloway, Garth J. +2 more
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Multiple Approaches to Absenteeism Analysis [PDF]
Absenteeism research has often been criticized for using inappropriate analysis. Characteristics of absence data, notably that it is usually truncated and skewed, violate assumptions of OLS regression; however, OLS and correlation analysis remain the ...
Sturman, Michael C.
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Analysis of the determinants of innovation in enterprises in Kazakhstan
Nowadays, with rapid changes in the business world, companies around the world are increasingly incorporating innovation as one of their strategies to ensure business expansion and profitability. This study examined the determinants of firm innovation in
A. S. Nurbatsin, A. A. Kireyeva
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Analysis of the relationship of regional deprivation indices with environmental sustainability (Case study: villages of Poldokhtar Township) [PDF]
In this study, the relationship between rural deprivation and environmental sustainability was analyzed. The present research is applied in a targeted, applied way and the method is descriptive-analytical.
Mehrshad Toulabi Nejad +2 more
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