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The Productivity Commission's gambling inquiry: 3 years on
Banks, Gary - EconWPA - 2003
In a presentation in November 2002 to the Annual Conference of the National Association for Gambling Studies in … Melbourne, Productivity Commission Chairman Gary Banks provided an update on key developments in Australia’s gambling industries … gambling, it remains unclear whether problem gambling and its impacts have moderated. There is a need for more research on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076623
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The Productivity Commission's gambling inquiry: 3 years on
Banks, Gary - EconWPA - 2003
In a presentation in November 2002 to the Annual Conference of the National Association for Gambling Studies in … Melbourne, Productivity Commission Chairman Gary Banks provided an update on key developments in Australia’s gambling industries … gambling, it remains unclear whether problem gambling and its impacts have moderated. There is a need for more research on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125975
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The Productivity Commission's gambling inquiry: 3 years on
Banks, Gary - EconWPA - 2003
In a presentation in November 2002 to the Annual Conference of the National Association for Gambling Studies in … Melbourne, Productivity Commission Chairman Gary Banks provided an update on key developments in Australia’s gambling industries … gambling, it remains unclear whether problem gambling and its impacts have moderated. There is a need for more research on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125976
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The Productivity Commission's gambling inquiry: 3 years on
Banks, Gary - EconWPA - 2003
In a presentation in November 2002 to the Annual Conference of the National Association for Gambling Studies in … Melbourne, Productivity Commission Chairman Gary Banks provided an update on key developments in Australia’s gambling industries … gambling, it remains unclear whether problem gambling and its impacts have moderated. There is a need for more research on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062466
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Business Profitability and Social Profitability: Evaluating Industries with Externalities, The Case Casinos.
Grinols, Earl L.; Mustard, David B. - EconWPA - 2005
Casino gambling is a social issue, because in addition to the direct benefits to those who own and use casinos … externalities generated by casinos. Lastly, it corrects many prevalent errors in the debate over the economics of casino gambling. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561010
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Score Tests of Normality in Bivariate Probit Models
Murphy, Anthony - EconWPA - 2005
A relatively simple and convenient score test of normality in the bivariate probit model is derived. Monte Carlo simulations show that the small sample performance of the bootstrapped test is quite good. The test may be readily extended to testing normality in related models.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407907
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Intrinsic Competition and the Labor-Schooling Trade-off in Uganda Competition in Child Labor and Schooling Decision Making in Uganda. Evidence from a Bivariate Probit Model
Ganglmair, Bernhard - EconWPA - 2005
empirical study, quite recent and hardly discussed data from Uganda is used for the joint estimation of child labor and school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556814
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The Physician-Patient Relationship Revisited - the Patient's View
Schneider, Udo; Ulrich, Volker - EconWPA - 2005
The importance of the physician-patient relationship for the health care market is beyond controversy. Most theoretical … the physician's perspectives, our paper concentrates on the patient's view. Estimation results using panel data support … the hypotheses that physician consultation and health-relevant behavior are not stochastically independent. This means …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561539
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How Much of the Gender Difference in Child School Enrolment Can Be Explained? Evidence from Rural India
Pal, Sarmistha - EconWPA - 2003
There are significant gender differences in child schooling in the Indian states though very few studies explain this gender difference. Unlike most existing studies we take account of the implicit and explicit opportunity costs of schooling and use a bivariate probit model to jointly determine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561547
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Generalizing the Causal Effect of Fertility on Female Labor Supply
Cruces, Guillermo; Galiani, Sebastian - EconWPA - 2003
We study the effect of fertility on labor supply in Argentina and Mexico exploiting a source of exogenous variability in family size first introduced by Angrist and Evans (1998) for the United States. Our results constitute the first external validation of the estimates obtained for the US....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125812