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In this paper, we attempt to analyze the determinants of unintended births among Colombian women aged 40 years old or more using data from the `Encuesta Nacional de Demografía y Salud ENDS- 2005, which is Colombia´s national demographic and health survey. Given the especial characteristics of...
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This paper reports a study on the socio-economic determinants of completed fertility in Mexico. An innovative Poisson Double-Hurdle count model is developed for the analysis. This methodological approach allows low and high order parities to be determined by two different data generating...
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This paper estimates the determinants of the number of work-related training courses, and their impact on expected wages growth, using longitudinal data from the British National Child Development Study. The analysis covers a crucial decade in the working lives of a cohort of young men – from...
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This work aims to identify the determinants of health care utilization in Portugal and to quantify their effects. A clear idea about this may help the policy debate on the delivery and organization of health services. Toward this end, we developed an approach based on count data models. We found...
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Agricultural run-off from the Great Barrier Reef catchment area may cause degradation of coral reefs, affecting the tourism sector that relies on healthy reefs for its income generation. A Contingent Behaviour approach is used to determine the effect of reef degradation on demand for...
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This paper extends the truncated and endogenously stratified Poisson and negative binomial models to three alternative discrete distributions, namely the generalized Poisson, geometric, and Borel distributions. Our primary intention here is to demonstrate how improper treatment of the data...
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An interesting winter sport phenomenon inrecent years has been the growth ofsnowboarding. Snowboarding has outpaced skiingat many resorts and has become the snow ridingactivity of choice for many young people. Thisstudy develops an empirical demand model forwinter sport trips amongst college...
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In this paper, we investigate the effect of a woman’s decision to enter paid employment on her husband’s contribution to domestic work. To explore this issue, we analyze cross-sectional data on Spanish couples. Our results suggest that female decision to participate in the labor market...
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Una dificultad presente en la gestión de recursos medioambientales es la ausencia de mercados que asignen un valor económico a sus funciones. En este estudio, se ha aplicado un método directo de valoración (método dicotómico simple de valoración contingente) y otro indirecto (método...
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Este trabajo tiene como objetivo determinar cuáles son los principales factores determinantes del número de siniestros en el seguro del automóvil, a la vez que comprobar si, como prevé la teoría, las coberturas más elevadas están correlacionadas positivamente con un mayor número de...
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