Tax policy encourages charitable contributions during an individual’s life through both the personal income tax and the estate tax. The effect of the income tax on contributions is well known. Because annual charitable contributions reduce the size of an estate, and hence the likely estate tax burden, the estate tax should also affect contributions. Recently, Auten and Joulfaian (1996) studied ...

OBJECTIVES The 29-item Multiple Sclerosis Impact Scale (MSIS-29) is a psychometrically validated patient-reported outcome measure increasingly used in trials of treatments for multiple sclerosis. However, it is non-preference-based and not amenable for use across policy decision-making contexts. Our objective was to statistically map from the MSIS-29, version 2, to the EuroQol five-dimension (E...

Fatality Rates for Crashes Involving Heavy Vehicles on Highways: A Random Parameter Tobit Regression Approach Mouyid Islam PhD & Salvador Hernandez PhD a Highway Safety Engineer, CH2M HILL, Inc, 8735 West Higgins Road, Chicago, IL 60631 b Assistant Professor, School of Civil and Construction Engineering, Oregon State University220 Owen Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331, Email: . Accepted author version...

In order to explore the impact of financial factors on the real economy, many researchers are analyzing the relationship between finance and real economic activity using new theories and approaches. This paper focuses on the relationship between financial soundness and corporate R&D activities on a regional scale. By measuring regional financial performance using data series including periods o...

Tobit regression is used to analyze market shares for a cross section of 273 insurers operating in 1990. Lines of business analyzed include personal auto liability and physical damage insurance, homeowners multiperil, commercial general liability, workers compensation, and commercial multiperil. After controlling for size and other factors, evidence indicates that direct writing insurers have c...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to measure health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in Iranian people with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus using two different measures and examines which socio-demographic and diabetes-related characteristics are associated with better quality of life based on a nationally distributed sample. METHODS A multi-stage cluster sampling method was used to select 3472 ...

This study investigates the various influence models of nodes' network centrality in the context of transactional community. Combining the Social Network Analysis (SNA) with Tobit regression, the research indicates that: i) a node's degree centrality (its followers) and betweenness centrality (the number of the shortest paths in which the node is included) have a positive impact on its network ...