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Death, obligation and the origins of slavery
Spicklsey, Judith - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2013
Despite the fact that slavery existed historically in almost all known societies, historians have as yet been unable to identify any shared values from which the institution could have arisen. This article reconstructs slavery as a form of debt or obligation, by suggesting that slavery occurred...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010720590
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Alternative methods for estimating systems of (health) equations
Quinn, Casey - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2006
considerably. The use of copulas also enables estimation of skewed multivariate distributions for the latent variables in a … distributional assumptions, skewness and tail dependence require prioritisation such that different needs could generate a different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005523906
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Health Care Utilization and Self-Assessed Health Specification of Bivariate Models Using Copulas*
Murteira, José M. R.; Lourenço, Óscar D. - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2007
their dependence structure. Estimation of these models is through maximum likelihood, with cross-section data from the … different copula models. The dependence parameter estimate is negative across joint models, which suggests evidence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005523912
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Measuring income-related inequalities in health using a parametric dependence function
C, Quinn - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2009
approaches to a direct parametric model for dependence as a measure of inequality in the distributions of health and income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004962217