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]
, 2010 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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Strategic complementarities between different types of ICT-expenditures [PDF]
Multivariate Tobit models are estimated using German cross?sectional data to test whether strategic complementarities exist between expenditures in four different types of ICT?components.
Kaiser, Ulrich
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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]
, 1996 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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Finite Sample Properties of Moran's I Test for Spatial Autocorrelation in Probit and Tobit Models - Empirical Evidence [PDF]
In this paper, we investigate the finite sample properties of Moran’s I test statistic for spatial autocorrelation in limited dependent variable models suggested by Kelejian and Prucha (2001).
L. Anselin, P. Amaral
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Determinants of bank efficiency: Evidence from a semi-parametric methodology [PDF]
In this paper, we use a semi-parametric two-stage model to examine the effect of bank-specific, industry-specific and macroeconomic determinants of bank efficiency.
Delis, Manthos D +1 more
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Modelling Charitable Donations to an Unexpected Natural Disaster: Evidence from the U.S. Panel Study of Income Dynamics [PDF]
, 1986 Using household-level data, we explore the relationship between donations to the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami disaster and other charitable donations.
Brown, S., Harris, M.N., Taylor, K.
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Analysis of change in patient-reported outcome measures with floor and ceiling effects using the multilevel Tobit model: a simulation study and an example from a National Joint Register using body mass index and the Oxford Hip Score. [PDF]
BMJ Open, 2020 Sayers A +5 more
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Fertilization: trade-offs between manure abatement and plant productivity [PDF]
, 2008 In 2005, 30% of the Flemish farms faced a manure excess, while at aggregated level still 9.7% of the emission rights were unused. This means that, despite the various possibilities, Flemish farmers do not succeed in an effective exchange of manure ...
Buysse, Jeroen +5 more
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An Empirically-Based Taxonomy of Dutch Manufacturing: Innovation Policy Implications [PDF]
The paper studies the degree of homogeneity of innovative behavior in order to determine empirically an industry classification of Dutch manufacturing that can be used for policy purposes.
Franz Palm +3 more
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