This paper analyzes changes in child care arrangements of a sample of children from the Youth Cohort of the National Longitudinal Surveys over the first three years of life. The analysis indicates that turnover in child care arrangements is surprisingly low among this sample and is more common among families of higher socioeconomic status. Child care turnover is positively correlated with mothe...

In this paper, we present a Weibull link (skewed) model for categorical response data arising from binomial as well as multinomial model. We show that, for such types of categorical data, the most commonly used models (logit, probit and complementary log–log) can be obtained as limiting cases. We further compare the proposed model with some other asymmetrical models. The Bayesian as well as fre...

Investigates the factors affecting student evaluation of teaching (SET). A total of 170 teaching evaluations conducted at the Nanyang Business School (Singapore) were analysed by regressing the overall teaching index on the following variables: subject characteristics (stream, year and type), class characteristics (format, size, time and day), evaluation characteristics (response, time and day)...