Sökning: "Endogeneity"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 41 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Endogeneity.

  1. 1. Statistical aspects of modeling panel data originating from smallholder household surveys in Sub-Saharan Africa and Vietnam

    Författare :Sultana Nasrin; Statistiska institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; power of test; endogeneity; multivariate; longitudinal data; diversification;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis focuses on multivariate multilevel modeling of panel data originated from smallholder farm surveys in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries and Vietnam to investigate driving forces in maize and rice production in SSA and diversification of farms in the rice sector in Vietnam. We also present and evaluate different tests for endogeneity in explanatory binary variables in multivariate linear regression models. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Empirical Essays on Housing Allowance, Housing Wealth, and Aggregate Consumption

    Författare :Jie Chen; Rune Wigren; Zan Yang; Geoffrey Meen; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economics; housing allowance; housing policy; tenure choice; homeownership; endogeneity; 2SCMLP; welfare trap effect; difference-in-difference; interaction effect; housing wealth; VECM; permanent-transitory; variance decomposition; wealth effect; Nationalekonomi; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation consists of four self-contained essays.Essay I (with Cecilia Enström Öst) investigates whether housing allowance affects recipients’ tenure choice in Sweden. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Intergenerational Persistence and Ethnic Disparities in Education

    Författare :Per Engzell; Jan O. Jonsson; Carina Mood; Jenny Torssander; Richard Breen; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; education; endogeneity; equality of opportunity; ethnic inequality; immigrant selectivity; large-scale assessments; measurement error; proxy variables; social origin; socioeconomic status; Sweden; Sociology; sociologi;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of four self-contained essays in the sociology of educational stratification. Study I draws on newly collected survey data to assess the biases that arise in estimating socioeconomic differences in achievement when relying on parent and student reported data on social background. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Income Generation in the African and Coloured Population: Three essays on the origins of household incomes in South Africa

    Författare :Sten Dieden; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Africa; South Africa; household incomes; income sources; inequality; labour; unemployment; core; periphery; multinomial logit; endogeneity;

    Sammanfattning : The dissertation comprises three empirical analyses focusing on the origins of South African households? income sources. The income sources are categorized to reflect the households? varying extent of economic core sector integration. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Economic policy in health care : Sickness absence and pharmaceutical costs

    Författare :David Granlund; Magnus Wikström; Niklas Rudholm; Åke G Blomquist; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; vertical fiscal externalities; sickness absence; sickness benefits; health care expenditure; fixed budgets; pharmaceuticals; cost containment; dynamic panel data models; endogeneity; propensity score matching; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of a summary and four papers. The first two concerns health care and sickness absence, and the last two pharmaceutical costs and prices. Paper [I] presents an economic federation model which resembles the situation in, for example, Sweden. LÄS MER