The Happiness Gains from Sorting and Matching in the Labor Market Sorting of people on the labor market not only assures the most productive use of valuable skills but also generates individual utility gains if people experience an optimal match between job characteristics and their preferences. Based on individual data on reported satisfaction with life it is possible to assess these latter ga...

This paper presents an easily implemented test of the assumption of a normally distributed error term for the ordered probit model. As this assumption is the central maintained hypothesis in all estimation and testing based on this model, the test ought to serve as a key specification test in applied research. A small Monte Carlo experiment suggests that the test has good size and power propert...

While a wide variety of transportation data sets involve discrete values scattered across space and time, few techniques presently exist to properly analyze such data. A new dynamic spatial ordered probit model (DSOP) is described here, and its use is demonstrated for a case of ozone concentration categories. Using outputs of photochemical models for the Austin, Texas region over a 24-hour peri...

Methods Based on a literature review, we identified RCTs of abatacept, adalimumab (ADA), etanercept, infliximab and tocilizumab (TCZ) in pcJIA. Comparative effectiveness was estimated on the reported American College of Rheumatology response rates (JIA ACR30/50/70/90) measured at the end of the randomised, double-blind phase by means of a Bayesian indirect comparison using a fixed-effects order...

Purpose – Recent developments in the literature on international trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) emphasise the role of firm characteristics in shaping firm participation in exports and FDI. The seminal work of Melitz and Helpman-Melitz-Yeaple (HMY) places heterogeneity in firm productivity at the heart of exporting and FDI. While the HMY hypothesis finds support for firms in the indus...

In this article we use meta-analysis to investigate the investment-uncertainty relationship. We focus on the direction and statistical significance of empirical estimates. Specifically, we estimate an ordered probit model and transform the estimated coefficients into marginal effects to reflect the changes in the probability of finding a significantly negative estimate, an insignificant estimat...

In relation to firms' innovative performance this study investigates the importance of human capital on the firms' absorptive capacity. The estimation of an ordered probit model including 1544 firms from the manufacturing and service industry in Denmark shows that the share of highly educated employees, application of human resource management practices within the firm, and development of a clo...

In this paper we examine a database assembled from an Australian public register of 553 merger decisions taken between March 2004 and July 2008. Mergers may be accepted without public assessment, accepted in conjunction with publication of a Public Competition Assessment, or rejected. We estimate an ordered probit model, using these three possible outcomes, with the objective of gaining better ...

This paper explores determinants of church attendance and the formation of ‘religious human capital’ in Germany within a Becker-style allocation-of-time framework. The analysis is based on data derived from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Taking advantage of the longitudinal structure of the data, we are able to control for unobservable heterogeneity by applying a random-effects ordere...

Facilitating healthy eating among young people, particularly among minorities who are at high risk for gaining excess weight, is at the forefront of the current policy discussions in the U.S. We investigate the effects of social interactions and relative prices on fruit and vegetable consumption by African American youths. We estimate a simultaneous equation ordered probit model of food intake ...