This article uses a double‐hurdle model with panel data from Malawi to investigate how
fertilizer subsidies affect farmer demand for commercial fertilizer. The article controls for …

Abstract A decade ago, Newhouse (1987) assessed the balance of trade between imports
from the econometrics literature into health economics, and exports from health economics …

Poultry is one of the fastest-growing agricultural sectors in India and its demand is said to be
rising. There is a perception that higher incomes, growing population, urbanisation, and …

While index-based microinsurance has attracted considerable attention, uptake rates have
been weak in many low-income countries. We explore the purchase patterns of index-based …

The double hurdle model is used to analyse the off‐farm labour decisions of small‐scale
agricultural household members in the Shamva District of Zimbabwe. The approach permits …

Heckman's sample‐selection model is generalized to the multivariate case and used to
estimate demands for cigarettes, beer, and wine by individuals in the United States. The …

This article analyzes the determinants of tobacco expenditures for a sample of Italian
households. A Box–Cox double-hurdle model adjusted for heteroscedasticity is estimated to …

Economic data, especially microeconomic data, frequently contain observations where
some variable of interest is equal to zero for a number of the observations in the data set. In …

A stated-preference approach is used to elicit the attitudes of the general public towards
coyote conservation. The payment vehicle is presented in a way that explicitly prompts …

In this paper, we estimate a tobacco consumption rational addiction model with panel data.
We apply Becker and Murphy's (1988, Journal of Political Economy 96, 675–700) proposal …