Modeling household fertility decisions: Estimation and testing of censored regression models for count data

Empirical Economics

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 183-196

  Caudill, Steven B ^a   Mixon Jr , Franklin G ^b  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

C25; J13

Indexed keywords

CENSORED NEGATIVE BINOMIAL REGRESSION MODEL; CENSORED POISSON REGRESSION MODEL; FERTILITY DECISION; HOUSEHOLD FERTILITY; METHODOLOGICAL EVALUATION; MODELLING APPROACH;

USA;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; FERTILITY; METHODOLOGY; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

AMERICAS; BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; FERTILITY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

AMERICAS; BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; FERTILITY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0029414472     PISSN: 03777332     EISSN: 14358921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01205434     Document Type: Article

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