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Predicting birth-rates through German micro-census data: a comparison of probit and Boolean regression

Hufnagel, Rainer - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Westfälische … - 2008

Boolean Regression. The data forming the basis for this investigation are from the German Micro-census waves of 1996 2002 and … comprise about 400 000 observations. Boolean Regression is used to predict how birth events depend on the socio …-economic characteristics of women and their male partners. Boolean Regression is compared to Probit. The data set is split into two halves in …

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The intergenerational transmission of educational attainment in East and West Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Trübswetter, Parvati - 2011

schooling outcomes in East and West Germany. Based on data from the German Mikrozensus we find that educational mobility is … Jugendlichen in Ost- und Westdeutschland über die Zeit. Daten des Mikrozensus zeigen, dass die Bildungsmobilität in Ostdeutschland …

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The evolution of secularization: Cultural transmission, religion and fertility theory, simulations and evidence

Bar-El, Ronen; García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana; … - 2010

This study presents an evolutionary process of secularization that integrates a theoretical model, simulations, and an empirical estimation that employs data from 32 countries (included in the International Social Survey Program: Religion II - ISSP, 1998). Following Bisin and Verdier (2000,...

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The evolution of secularization : cultural transmission, religion and fertility theory, simulations and evidence

Bar-El, Ronen; Garcia-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana; … - 2010

This study presents an evolutionary process of secularization that integrates a theoretical model, simulations, and an empirical estimation that employs data from 32 countries (included in the International Social Survey Program: Religion II – ISSP, 1998). Following Bisin and Verdier (2000,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003970726

A Bayesian mixed logit-probit model for multinomial choice

Burda, Martin; Harding, Matthew; Hausman, Jerry - 2008

In this paper we introduce a new flexible mixed model for multinomial discrete choice where the key individual- and alternative-specific parameters of interest are allowed to follow an assumptionfree nonparametric density specification while other alternative-specific coefficients are assumed to...

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A Bayesian mixed logit-probit model for multinomial choice

Burda, Martin (contributor); Harding, Matthew (contributor); … - 2008

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Analyzing the Swiss Business Cycle

Perruchoud, Alexander - 2008

This paper sets up a Gibbs sampler for a three state Markov switching model with non-constant transition probabilities. The step from two to three states is accomplished by the use of a multinomial probit model for the latent variable process. The algorithm is then applied to Swiss GDP data in...

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Analysis of Multivariate Probit Models

Chib, Siddhartha; Greenberg, Edward - 1997

This paper provides a unified simulation-based Bayesian and non-Bayesian analysis of correlated binary data using the multivariate probit model. The posterior distribution is simulated by Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, and maximum likelihood estimates are obtained by a Monte Carlo version of...

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Computational Issues in the Sequential Probit Model : A Monte Carlo Study

Waelbroeck, Patrick - 2004

We discuss computational issues in the sequential probit model that have limited its use in applied research. We estimate parameters of the model by the method of simulated likelihood and by Bayesian MCMC algorithms. We provide Monte Carlo evidence on the relative performance of both estimators....

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Women's education and family behavior : trends in marriage, divorce and fertility

Isen, Adam; Stevenson, Betsey - 2010

This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed....

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