Self-Selection in Home Choice

Self-selection in Home Choice: Use of Treatment Effects in Evaluating the Relationship between the Built Environment and Travel Behavior

The issue of self-selection’s role in shaping travel patterns, by impacting one’s home location choice, is a critical question. Developers, planners and policymakers regularly debate to what extent the built environment and land use patterns can alleviate roadway congestion, greenhouse gas emissions and myriad other urban problems. This study illustrates the use of Heckman’s (1976, 1979) latent...

Home sweet home: Social capital and location choice

We argue that social capital places strong constraints on an entrepreneur’s ability to found a firm in a region in which he or she does not have connections. We examine this thesis using comprehensive data on the Danish population and find evidence broadly consistent with this claim. Entrepreneurs tend to open businesses in regions in which they have deep roots (‘home’ regions). We further find...

evidence of adverse selection in irans health insurance market

در این تحقیق به مطالعه وجود انتخاب نامساعد(کژ گزینی) در بازار بیمه درمان تکمیلی ایران پرداخته شده است. داده های مورد نیاز توسط پرسشنامه و به روش نمونه گیری خوشه ای جمع آوری شده است. پرسشنامه ها در میان افراد شاغل ساکن شهر تهران توریع شد. در این تحقیق با استفاده از تخمین دو مدل لجستیک و به دست آوردن ضریب همبستگی میان تقاضای بیمه درمان تکمیلی و رخداد خسارت به بررسی موضوع مورد نظر پرداخته شده است....

The high/low divide: Self-selection by values in auction choice

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Urs Schweizer. — Department of Economics — University of Bonn — D-53113 Bonn, Phone: +49(0228)739220 — Fax: +49(0228)739221 * Humboldt-University of Berlin, Department of Economics, Spandauer Str. 1, D-10178 Berlin, Germany, Email: [email protected] ** Department of Economics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 32306-2180, Phone: 850-644-7207 Fax: 850-644-4535...

Modeling Residential Self-Selection in Activity-Travel Behavior Models: Integrated Models of Multidimensional Choice Processes