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Conditional Logit Model (conditional + logit_model)
Selected AbstractsManaged Care Quality of Care and Plan Choice in New York SCHIPHEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH, Issue 3 2009Hangsheng Liu Objective. To examine whether low-income parents of children enrolled in the New York State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) choose managed care plans with better quality of care. Data Sources. 2001 New York SCHIP evaluation data; 2001 New York State Managed Care Plan Performance Report; 2000 New York State Managed Care Enrollment Report. Study Design. Each market was defined as a county. A final sample of 2,325 new enrollees was analyzed after excluding those in markets with only one SCHIP plan. Plan quality was measured using seven Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Survey (CAHPS) and three Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS) scores. A conditional logit model was applied with plan and individual/family characteristics as covariates. Principle Findings. There were 30 plans in the 45 defined markets. The choice probability increased 2.5 percentage points for each unit increase in the average CAHPS score, and the association was significantly larger in children with special health care needs. However, HEDIS did not show any statistically significant association with plan choice. Conclusions. Low-income parents do choose managed care plans with higher CAHPS scores for their newly enrolled children, suggesting that overall quality could improve over time because of the dynamics of enrollment. [source] Valuing the Multiple Impacts of Pesticide Use in the UK: A Contingent Ranking ApproachJOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS, Issue 1 2000Vivien Foster The contingent ranking method was used to estimate the value of the human health and biodiversity impacts associated with pesticide applications, using a "green" consumer product as a payment vehicle. Specification testing showed that the standard conditional logit model provides a representation of these data preferable to the rank-ordered logit variant. The resulting estimates - which perform well in terms of standard validity tests - show that, on average, consumers are only willing to tolerate between six and eight cases of human illness to save an entire species of farmland birds. [source] THE JOINT CHOICE OF AN INDIVIDUAL'S OCCUPATION AND DESTINATION,JOURNAL OF REGIONAL SCIENCE, Issue 5 2008Christiadi ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between an individual's occupation choice and destination choice. It portrays the relationship as an interaction between the supply of occupational skills by individuals and demand by different labor-market regions. The unusual merger of a multinomial logit model of occupational choice and the conditional logit model of destination choice in a simultaneous equation framework requires derivation of a unique variance,covariance matrix. Results indicate strong association between supply of (migration) and demand for (industry mix) an individual's occupational skills. These effects are especially strong for destinations experiencing slow economic growth, while relatively unimportant for high-growth locations. [source] Structure of Firm Location Choices: An Examination of Japanese Greenfield Investment in China,ASIAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL, Issue 1 2007Shaoming Cheng F21; L20; R30 This paper presents an empirical investigation of the location decision structure of Japanese investors in China. In this study, a nested logit model and rich Japanese firm-level greenfield manufacturing foreign direct investment data are calibrated together. This examination is not only driven by the unsatisfactory model specification of the conditional logit model in previous location choice analyses, specifically the violation of the independence from irrelevant alternatives assumption; but is also driven by the urgent need to better understand foreign investors' in general and Japanese investors' in particular location decision structure in China. Two potential hierarchical and sequential location decision-making structures of Japanese investors are then tested, which are respectively in line with the spatial divide of China's FDI preferential policies and with China's six traditional census areas. [source] | ||||||||||