Random Utility Maximization (RUM) models of recreation demand are typically plaguedby limited information on environmental and other attributes characterizing the available sitesin the choice set. To the extent that these unobserved site attributes are correlated with theobserved characteristics...

A broad literature seeks to assess the importance of schools, proxies for school quality, andfamily background on children's achievement growth using the education production function.Using rich data from the Philippines, we introduce and estimate a model that imposes littlestructure on the...

We describe a simulation-based algorithm for Bayesian estimation of structuraleffects in models where the outcome of interest and an endogenous treatment variableare ordered. Our algorithm makes use of a reparameterization, suggested by Nandramand Chen (1996) and Li and Tobias (2005) in the...

We describe a new and flexible framework for modeling school effects. Like previouswork in this area, we introduce an empirical model that evaluates school performance onthe basis of student level test-score gains. Unlike previous work, however, we introducea flexible model that relates...