A range of theories have attempted to explain the variation in civilian abuse of warring parties. Most of these theories have been focused on the strategic environment in which these acts take place. Less attention is devoted to the perpetrators of these human right abuses themselves: the armed groups. This study tries to fill this niche by using the organizational process theory in which it is...

Test score distributions of schools or demographic groups are often summarized by frequencies of students scoring in a small number of ordered proficiency categories. We show that heteroskedastic ordered probit (HETOP) models can be used to estimate means and standard deviations of multiple groups’ test score distributions from such data. Because the scale of HETOP estimates is indeterminate up...

This paper investigates how individual characteristics, such as age, salary, job tenure, and gender, influence an individual’s decision to over-invest in company stock and follow naïve diversification rules. Using a new and unique data set from one 401(k) plan with over 73,000 eligible employees, the results suggest that individual characteristics do influence company stock holdings. Ordered pr...

A generalized linear mixed model, ordered probit, is used to estimate levels of stress in presidential political appointees as a means of understanding their surprisingly short tenures. A Bayesian approach is developed, where the random effects are modeled with a Dirichlet process mixture prior, allowing for useful incorporation of prior information, but retaining some vagueness in the form of ...

Technology Transfer‖ (―TT‖) is a concept subject to different interpretations, according to the discipline of research (i.e. Economics, Anthropology, Sociology and Management), as well as according to the purpose of research. The different research views, while not converging on how to interpret the phenomenon, share the same basic idea behind TT, which can be synthesized as a movement of know-...

Microdata from the UK Survey of Mortgage Lenders is used to model borrowers' choices between variable and fixed rate mortgages. The data is treated as a large-scale " natural experiment " on risky choice, with the choice of a fixed rate corresponding to the " safe choice " in a more conventional experimental setting. The choice is assumed to depend partly on risk attitude, and partly on expecta...

Though the Suzhou government has provided household solid waste (HSW) source separation since 2000, the program remains largely ineffective. Between January and March 2014, the authors conducted an intercept survey in five different community groups in Suzhou, and 505 valid surveys were completed. Based on the survey, the authors used an ordered probit regression to study residents’ HSW source ...

Various models for time series of counts which can account for discreteness, overdispersion and serial correlation are compared. Besides observationand parameter-driven models based upon corresponding conditional Poisson distributions, a dynamic ordered probit model as a flexible specification to capture the salient features of time series of counts is also considered. For all models, appropria...

Abstract: This paper explores the link between crime and corruption, compares their magnitudes, determinants and their effects on growth rates. The study uses a large cross country data set containing individual responses to questions on crime and corruption along with information on the respondents’ characteristics. This data set is supplemented by country level indicators from a variety of so...

The aim of this chapter is to assess the impact of different organizational factors on the success of elearning programs, in terms of both self-reported satisfaction and the level of learning. Hence, this study adds to the analysis of the efficacy of e-learning models from an organizational perspective by providing some useful insights, which may help to improve decision-making related to emplo...