There is an ongoing debate as to the degree to which an adolescent’s peer group affects whether they engage in activity that leads to obesity. This paper moves beyond the standard peer effects literature by using spatial econometrics to answer questions on how peers influence adolescent obesity. There have been significant advances in the use of spatial econometrics to estimate peer effects. Th...

This paper analyses the process of convergence across the regions of Russia using spatial econometrics tools in addition to the traditional β-convergence techniques as derived from the neoclassical theoretical setting. The spatial component appears to be non-negligible and, consequently, conventional convergence estimates suffer a bias due to spatial dependence across observations. Furthermore,...

This paper analyses the process of convergence across the regions of Russia using spatial econometrics tools in addition to the traditional β -convergence techniques as derived from the neoclassical theoretical setting. The spatial component appears to be non-negligible and, consequently, conventional convergence estimates suffer a bias due to spatial dependence across observations. Furthermore...

this study estimates the residential property prices in tehran using hedonic price functions and spatial econometrics. the newly employed method is extending the analysis to the neighbourhood level (361 sectors) using the city's planning and gis tools. the results show that the spatial econometric model has higher identification than the simple econometric model. the distance between the c...

Econometrics has become an integral part of training in modern economics and business. Together with microeconomics and macroeconomics, econometrics has been taught as one of the three core courses in most undergraduate and graduate economic programs in North America. In China, the importance of econometrics has been increasingly recognized and econometric tools and methods have been widely emp...

Econometrics has become an integral part of training in modern economics and business. Together with microeconomics and macroeconomics, econometrics has been taught as one of the three core courses in most undergraduate and graduate economic programs in North America. In China, the importance of econometrics has been increasingly recognized and econometric tools and methods have been widely emp...