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Estimation of Actual and Potential Adoption Rates and Determinants of Improved Rice Variety Among Rice Farmers in Nigeria: The Case of NERICAs
Dontsop Nguezet, Paul Martin; Diagne, Aliou; Okoruwa, … - 2010
The article used the ATE estimation framework to derive consistent semi-parametric estimators of population adoption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443619
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Taking a New Look at Empirical Models of Adoption: Average Treatment Effect Estimation of Adoption Rates and their Determinants
Diagne, Aliou - 2006
estimation framework to derive consistent nonparametric and parametric estimators of population adoption rates and their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009483577
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Network effects, compatibility, and adoption of standards
Grajek, Michał - 2005
standard and international trade. The estimation results allow us to formulate some interesting policy conclusions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467122
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Asymmetrische Effekte der Geldpolitik auf die Industrie in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland - eine Untersuchung auf Branchenebene
Hock, Thorsten - 2003
subsectors, at least not given the used identification strategy. This could be due to the fact that this theory regards the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009433722
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Measuring the Burden of Disease, the Structure of Income, and Returns to Education in Rural West Africa
Würthwein, Ralph - 2002
Die vorliegende Dissertation will einen Beitrag zur Messung von Krankheitsbelastung, Einkommensstruktur und Ausbildungsrenditen im ländlichen Westafrika leisten. Ihr Forschungsgegenstand ist die Erhebung und Analyse von Mortalitäts-, Morbiditäts- und sozio-ökonomischen Daten im...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476242
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CAUSAL EFFECT ESTIMATION UNDER LINEAR AND LOG-LINEAR STRUCTURAL NESTED MEAN MODELS IN THE PRESENCE OF UNMEASURED CONFOUNDING
Wang, Chia-Hao - 2010
analyses are biased due to unmeasured confounding. The instrumental variables (IV; Angrist et al., 1996) and G-estimation … investigate the validity of these IV methods for estimation under a log-linear SNMM. The results show that the IV estimators are … biased in the presence of unmeasured confounding. Therefore, we consider the G-estimation approach as an alternative solution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009439201
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Production Contracts and Farm Business Growth and Survival
Key, Nigel D. - 2010
In recent decades there has been a substantial increase in the scale of production and the use of production contracts in the hog sector. This paper explores empirically whether these two phenomena are related by examining whether the use of production contracts has allowed finish hog operations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446078
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U.S. Alcohol Consumption: Tax Instrumental Variables in Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand (QUAIDS)System
Jithitikulchai, Theepakorn - 2011
federal taxes as the instrumental variables could mitigate the problem. There is the improvement in estimation to use the set … excise taxes imposed. In term of estimation, the instrumental tax variables could improve the QUAIDS model on reflecting the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446993
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Understanding the relationship between founder-CEOs and firm performance
Adams, Renee; Heitor, Almeida; Ferreira, Daniel - 2009
We use instrumental variables methods to disentangle the effect of founder–CEOs on performance from the effect of performance on founder–CEO status. Our instruments for founder–CEO status are the proportion of the firm's founders that are dead and the number of people who founded the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448159
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Wohlstand und Gesundheit : neuere empirische Resultate und theoretische Erklärungsversuche
Hupfeld, Stefan - 2004
Diese Arbeit umfasst eine Darstellung des Grossman-Modells und der Akkumulation von Gesundheitskapital. Es werden ältere empirische Untersuchungen (Wagstaff) vorgestellt und aus methodischer Sicht kritisiert, verbesserte ökonometrische Methoden vorgeschlagen und deren Anwendung in aktuellen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471616