Off-farm work decisions of farm couples: Estimating structural simultaneous equations with ordered categorical dependent variables

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 687-698

  Kimhi, Ayal ^a   Lee, Myoung Jae ^b,c  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b Department of Econometrics ^*

^c TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Categorical dependent variables; Farm labor supply; Minimum distance estimation; Off farm labor supply; Structural simultaneous equations

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH; OFF FARM WORK; SIMULTANEOUS EQUATION; WORK DECISION;

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EID: 0030420152     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1243286     Document Type: Article

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