The classical Heckman (1976, 1979) selection correction estimator (heckit) is misspecified and inconsistent if an interaction of the outcome variable and an explanatory variable matters for selection. To address this specification problem, a full information maximum likelihood estimator and a simple two-step estimator are developed. Monte-Carlo simulations illustrate that the bias of the ordina...

The aim of this study is to analyze the migration process of the rural population of Bangladesh. Heckman Probit model with sample selection was applied in this paper to explore the determinants of migration and intensity of migration at farm household level. The farm survey was conducted in the central part of Bangladesh on 160 farm households with migrant and on 154 farm households without mig...

The classical Heckman (1976, 1979) selection correction estimator (heckit) is misspecified and inconsistent if an interaction of the outcome variable and an explanatory variable matters for selection. To address this specification problem, a full information maximum likelihood estimator and a simple two-step estimator are developed. Monte-Carlo simulations illustrate that the bias of the ordina...

the combined effect of non-newtonian rheology and irreversible boundary reaction on dispersion in a herschel-bulkley fluid through a conduit (pipe/channel) is studied by using generalized dispersion model. the study explains the development of dispersive transport following the injection of a tracer in terms of three effective transport coefficients namely exchange, convective and dispersion co...

The use of micro survey data has been popular in estimating consumer demand equations. Important features of microdata include censored dependent variables. Estimation procedures for censored consumer demand systems include the primal (Kuhn-Tucker) approach of Wales and Woodland (1983), dual (virtualprice) approach of Lee and Pitt (1986), and the Tobit system (Amemiya 1974) estimated by general...

Recent evidence from economics and psychology highlights the importance of traits other than general intelligence for success in school and in life (Almlund, Duckworth, Heckman, & Kautz, 2011; Borghans, Duckworth, Heckman, & ter Weel, 2008; Moffitt et al., 2011). Disparities in so-called non-cognitive skills appear to contribute to the academic achievement gap separating wealthy from disadvanta...

Lutian Zhao UID: 661622198 The Duistermaat-Heckman theorems concern the measure associated to moment map of a torus action of symplectic manifold. Typically, this name refers to two theorems, one is called the ”Duistermaat-Heckman measure", which says that ”the Radon-Nikodym derivative is piecewise polynomial", the definition of each terms will be introduced later. The second one is called ”Dui...