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Income-related health disparity and its determinants in New York state: racial/ethnic and geographical comparisons
Lahiri, Kajal; Pulungan, Zulkarnain - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Using self-assessed health status together with several indicators of individual morbidity and socio-demographic characteristics, we study the quality of health and income related health disparity in five racial/ethnic groups as well as across 17 geographic areas of New York State. The American...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008490470
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The effects of prospective mate quality on investments in healthy body weight among single women
Harris, Matthew; Cronin, Christopher - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper examines how a single female's investment in healthy body weight is affected by the quality of single males in her marriage market. A principle concern in estimation is the presence of market-level unobserved heterogeneity that may be correlated with changes in single male quality. To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011156977
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Unobserved Factors Linking Functional Decline and Depression Among the Oldest Americans
Obrizan, Maksym - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This study considers the dependence between functional decline and depression in a nationally representative sample of …, functional limitations lead to more depressive symptoms. While this cross-dependence is an established fact in the literature … dependence between functional decline and depression. Estimation of multivariate probit model reveals substantial unobserved …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009151134
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Maximum likelihood estimation of a stochastic frontier model with residual covariance
Simwaka, Kisu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
In theoretical literature on productivity, the disturbance terms of the stochastic frontier model are assumed to be independent random variables. In this paper, we consider a stochastic production frontier model with residuals that are both spatially and time-wise correlated. We introduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259653
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Threshold Effects of Sovereign Debt: Evidence from the Caribbean
Craigwell, Roland; Greenidge, Kevin; Thomas, Chrystal; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper addresses the issue of threshold effects between public debt and economic growth in the Caribbean. The main finding is that there exists a threshold debt to gross domestic product (GDP) ratio of 55–56 percent. Moreover, the debt dynamics begin changing well before this threshold is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260325
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The Multiple Discrete-Continuous Extreme Value Model (MDCEV) with fixed costs
Tanner, Reto; Bolduc, Denis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
In this paper, we present a model that can be viewed as an extension of the traditional Tobit model. As opposed to that specific model, ours also accounts for the the fixed costs of car ownership. That extension is needed since being carless is an option for many households in societies that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260957
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Fiscal decentralization and public sector efficiency: Evidence from OECD countries
Adam, Antonis; Delis, Manthos D; Kammas, Pantelis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper empirically examines the relationship between fiscal decentralization and public sector efficiency. A country-level dataset is used to measure public sector efficiency in delivering education and health services and the new indices are regressed on well-established decentralization...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009650679
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Interpreting interaction terms in linear and non-linear models: A cautionary tale
Drichoutis, Andreas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Interaction terms are often misinterpreted in the empirical economics literature by assuming that the coefficient of interest represents unconditional marginal changes. I present the correct way to estimate conditional marginal changes in a series of non-linear models including (ordered)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294598
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ICT access in Latin America. evidence from household level
Vergara, Sebastián; Grazzi, Matteo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The diffusion of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) is becoming a central policy issue for developing countries, being identified by international policy-makers and scholars as an important driver of knowledge, innovation and economic growth. We analyze ICT access patterns in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294603
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(Re)estimating marginal changes after “truncreg” and “tobit” in Stata
Drichoutis, Andreas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
In this note I show that a typo in Stata’s help file may have contributed in wrongly estimating marginal changes after truncated and censored regression models. This has significant implications for empirical practice and results from published studies may need to be reconsidered.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294604