This paper uses the semi-parametric method for binary choice models developed by Wang and Zhou (1995) to estimate the effect of health on the labour force participation of married women using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (1989 interviewing year). The semi-parametric method is...

A Tobit model is considered with a natural non-response rate. The model features simultaneous determination of the standard Tobit model and a natural non-response rate. An example on the determinants of extramarital affairs is used to illustrate the method. The natural non-response rate is shown...

We conduct a performance evaluation in terms of technical efficiency of large law firms based on a unique sample of 163 large law firms in the USA in 1994. To estimate technical efficiency for individual firms, we use the stochastic frontier production function with composed errors where output...

Of the probit analysis with a natural no-response rate is applied to empirically examine the determinants of the labour force participation of married women using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics in the 1989 interviewing year. The model features simultaneous determination of labour...

This paper proposes some tests for choosing between two estimated models using some Pearson type statistics. We allow for arbitrary ?n-asymptotically normal estimators to be used in forming these statistics. This provides some flexibility in practice. Then Large Sample theory and bootstrap...

This paper models household fertility decisions by using a generalized Poisson regression model. Since the fertility data used in the paper exhibit under-dispersion, the generalized Poisson regression model has statistical advantages over both standard Poisson and negative binomial regression...