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Triggers and Determinants of Severe Household Indebtedness in Germany
Keese, Matthias - 2009
-) indebtedness which relate household income and debt services to different concepts of subsistence levels, this paper investigates … are likely to cause severe household indebtedness. Unemployment also worsens the relative debt situation mainly due to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265783
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Broke, Ill, and Obese: The Effect of Household Debt on Health
Keese, Matthias; Schmitz, Hendrik - 2010
employed individuals, and (c) lagged debt variables to rule out problems of reverse causality. We apply different measures of … precarious debt situation). We find all debt measures to be strongly correlated with health satisfaction, mental health, and … obesity. Controlling for unobserved heterogeneity and reversed causality we find evidence that household debt also causally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273591
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Triggers and Determinants of Severe Household Indebtedness in Germany
Keese, Matthias - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2009
-) indebtedness which relate household income and debt services to different concepts of subsistence levels, this paper investigates … are likely to cause severe household indebtedness. Unemployment also worsens the relative debt situation mainly due to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008509377
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Broke, Ill, and Obese: The Effect of Household Debt on Health
Keese, Matthias; Schmitz, Hendrik - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2010
employed individuals, and (c) lagged debt variables to rule out problems of reverse causality. We apply different measures of … precarious debt situation). We find all debt measures to be strongly correlated with health satisfaction, mental health, and … obesity. Controlling for unobserved heterogeneity and reversed causality we find evidence that household debt also causally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009018046
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Is Peace a Missing Value or a Zero?
Vance, Colin; Ritter, Nolan - 2013
Sample selection models, variants of which are the Heckman and Heckit models, are increasingly used by political scientists to accommodate data in which censoring of the dependent variable raises concerns of sample selectivity bias. Beyond demonstrating several pitfalls in the calculation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327838
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Do High Oil Prices Matter? – Evidence on the Mobility Behavior of German Households
Frondel, Manuel; Vance, Colin - 2008
Focusing on travel survey data from Germany, this paper investigates the determinants of automobile travel, with the specific aim of quantifying the effects of fuel prices and fuel economy. The analysis is predicated on the notion that car mileage is a two-stage decision process, comprising the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264740
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Driving for Fun? – A Comparison of Weekdays and Weekend Travel
Frondel, Manuel; Vance, Colin - 2009
Focusing on individual motorists in car-owning households in Germany, this paper econometrically investigates the determinants of automobile travel with the specific aim of quantifying the effects of fuel prices and person-level attributes on travel conducted over a five-day week and weekend....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265780
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Is Peace a Missing Value or a Zero?
Vance, Colin; Ritter, Nolan - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2013
Sample selection models, variants of which are the Heckman and Heckit models, are increasingly used by political scientists to accommodate data in which censoring of the dependent variable raises concerns of sample selectivity bias. Beyond demonstrating several pitfalls in the calculation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010860275
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Driving for Fun? – A Comparison of Weekdays and Weekend Travel
Frondel, Manuel; Vance, Colin - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2009
Focusing on individual motorists in car-owning households in Germany, this paper econometrically investigates the determinants of automobile travel with the specific aim of quantifying the effects of fuel prices and person-level attributes on travel conducted over a five-day week and weekend....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005036052
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Do High Oil Prices Matter? – Evidence on the Mobility Behavior of German Households
Frondel, Manuel; Vance, Colin - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2008
Focusing on travel survey data from Germany, this paper investigates the determinants of automobile travel, with the specific aim of quantifying the effects of fuel prices and fuel economy. The analysis is predicated on the notion that car mileage is a two-stage decision process, comprising the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561970