A revised Tobit procedure for mitigating bias in the presence of non-zero censoring with an application to milk-market participation in the Ethiopian highlands

Agricultural Economics

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 97-106

  Holloway, Garth ^a   Nicholson, Charles ^b   Delgado, Chris ^c   Staal, Steve ^d   Ehui, Simeon ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^c INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^e WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

C24; Milk market development; O12; Q01; Q12; Revised Tobit procedure

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MARKET; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; MARKET DEVELOPMENT; MILK PRODUCTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 3042803821     PISSN: 01695150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agecon.2003.12.001     Document Type: Article

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