In this paper, we undertake the first examination of the effects of personality on individual economic choices over public environmental goods, using a stated preference approach. Based on three data sets from three separate choice modelling studies, we examine the effects of personality on preferences for the status quo, for changes in environmental quality, and over the costs of investing in ...

This paper estimates the relationship between marital status and mortality using a large sample of family histories from the United States. The data under analysis contain birth, death and marriage dates on a sample of family-linked individuals. Using both linear models of life expectancy and parametric and semi-parametric hazard models, the analysis finds strong and consistent benefits of marr...

Existing random utility models of brand choice behavior, in the tradition of McFadden (1974), are based on the assumption that consumers employ the decision rule of maximum utility to choose a brand. However, there is a rich body of empirical work in mathematical psychology that suggests that consumers choose probabilistically between brands (see, for example, Luce 1959). In this paper, we prop...

Experimental results show that in large complex networks such as internet or biological networks, there is a tendency to connect elements which have a common neighbor. This tendency in theoretical random graph models is depicted by the asymptotically constant clustering coefficient. Moreover complex networks have power law degree distribution and small diameter (small world phenomena), thus the...

This note constitutes a corrigendum to the article of Azomahou (2009), JSPI, 139:25812597. The aggregation of isotropic four nearest neighbors autoregressive models on the lattice Z , with random coefficient, is investigated. The spectral density of the resulting random field is studied in details for a large class of law of the AR coefficient. Depending on this law, the aggregated field may ex...

Two general random intersection graph models (active and passive) were introduced by Godehardt and Jaworski (Exploratory Data Analysis in Empirical Research, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, pp. 68–81, 2002). Recently the models have been shown to have wide real life applications. The two most important ones are: non-metric data analysis and real life network analysis. Within both contex...