I specify an econometric model to estimate the causal effects of environmental factors on individuals’ life-cycle health outcome, and outline a semiparametric control function approach to test and correct for the possible selectivity bias that may arise due to endogenous choice of residence by individuals. I show how to map Union Army Sample data to elements of this model in practice. JEL Class...

140f 2 The aim of this study is to analyze the level of environmental, economic, and social engagement disclosed by local governments, taking into account factors such as political ideology and media pressure. We analyzed 102 large Spanish municipalities, using data from 2011. An econometric model is used based on dependency techniques for cross-sectional data. The Tobit technique is suitable, ...

This paper aims at providing a statistical model for the preferred behavior of authors submitting a paper to a scientific journal. The electronic submission of (about 600) papers to the Journal of the Serbian Chemical Society has been recorded for every day from Jan. 01, 2013 till Dec. 31, 2014, together with the acceptance or rejection paper fate. Seasonal effects and editor roles (through des...

Retail markets are extremely important, but economists have few practical tools for analyzing the way dispersed buyers and sellers affect the properties of markets. In this paper, I develop an econometric model of retail demand, a model in which products are location specific and consumers have preferences over both geographic and other product characteristics. I show how to incorporate data on...

During the past thirty years, the economy of the USA, along with other industrialized countries, has experienced several noticeable trends, namely, the economic slowdown, the tremendous increase in the amount of information technology investment, and fast structural change in terms of employment. With slow economic growth and fast IT capital accumulation, the so-called “information technology (...

This paper examines the labour supply behaviour of married women in France. Estimating a model with tax parameter variation, careful re-examination of the treatment of the unearned income variable and taking account of education in moJelling preferences result in substantially lower elasticities than found in our previous empirical analysis. It turns out that distinguishing between part-time, f...

This paper analyzes the impact of the definition of part-time sick leave (PTSL) when analyzing the effect of PTSL on employees’ probability to fully recover lost work capacity. Using a random sample of 3,607 employees, we estimate an econometric model that aims to answer the hypothetical question of what happens to an employee who has lost his/her work capacity if he/she instead of continuing t...

We assess empirically the effects of the winner’s curse which, in common-value auctions, counsels more conservative bidding as the number of competitors increases. First, we construct an econometric model of an auction in which bidders’ preferences have both commonand private-value components, and propose a new monotone quantile approach which facilitates estimation of this model. Second, we es...

In this paper we endogenously group 311 U.S. cities by using dynamic clustering techniques. Then, we try to determine what the economic determinants of clustering are. In so doing, we use a spatial econometric model that disentangles the effect of intercity interactions operating through the input-output matrix from the effect of all others interactions. Preliminary incomplete version Do not ci...

This paper uses ordered response models of pensioners’ subjective evaluations of their ...nancial positions to construct equivalence scales for pensioners. A range of di¤erent ordered response models is used. The paper examines the sensitivity of the estimated scale to (a) the econometric model used and (b) the measurement of income. A pensioner couple is found to require on average 1.3 to 1.4 ...