In this paper we study polytomous logistic regression model and the asymptotic properties of the minimum φ-divergence estimators for this model. A simulation study is conducted to analyze the behavior of these estimators as function of the power-divergence measure φ(λ). AMS 2001 Subject Classification Primary 62H15 · Secondary 62H17

The previous literature suggests that the determinants of child labor are largely country specific, indicating that any policies aimed at reducing child labor must look carefully at the causes of child labor in context. My thesis adds to the empirical work on child labor by investigating what household and community characteristics are most common among working children in the Philippines, usin...

This paper uses data on automobile purchases to compare two alternatives to the multinomial logit model. The results indicate that the nested logit model is likely to be superior to the more general Berry–Levinsohn–Pakes model for applications using aggregate-level data.  2000 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved.

The agricultural reform in Hungary broke the previously vertically integrated agri-food system in different lines. The structures in agriculture, food industry and food retailing have fundamentally changed. These changes have also influenced the vertical governance structures in agri-food sector. The aim of this paper is to investigate the choice of farmers among various supply channels in Hung...

Crowdsourcing contests have emerged as an innovative way for firms to solve business problems by acquiring ideas from participants external to the firm. To facilitate such contests a number of crowdsourcing platforms have emerged in recent years. A crowdsourcing platform provides a twosided marketplace with one set of members (seekers) posting tasks, and another set of members (solvers) working...

Parental education is one of the main determinants of educational attainment. In research it is often measured using the education level of one parent, usually the father’s. This research investigates how well father’s education explains the variation in educational attainment for males and females, and compares this to models using mother’s education and those using both parents’ education. Th...

Background: This study aimed to examine the number of latent classes of criminal intent that exist among prisoners and to look at the associations with recidivism, number of police arrests, type of offending (robbery, violent offences, murder, and multiple offences), and age. Participants and Procedure: Latent class analysis was used to identify homogeneous subgroups of prisoners based on their...

This paper explores hypotheses of hierarchical migration using data from the Alaskan Arctic. We focus on migration of Iñupiat people, who are indigenous to the region, and explore the role of income and subsistence harvests on migration. To test related hypotheses we use confidential micro‐data from the US Census Bureau’s 2000 Decennial Census of Population and Income and generate migration pro...

Diary industry in China has been in deep crisis since a series of quality scandals were exposed to public in 2008. Thanks to the traceability system in dairy supply chain and the growth of the internet, providing traceable dairy product information to the public is viewed as one of the best ways, mostly in terms of feasibility, to overcome the trust crisis and to promote the development of the ...

Relatively little research has been devoted to studying self-employment among older workers although they make up a disproportionate share of the self-employed workforce. This study uses 5 waves of panel data from the Health and Retirement Study to investigate the determinants of labor force transitions to self-employment at older ages. We estimate a multinomial logit model of transitions from ...