Università della Svizzera italiana

Essays on the demand for child care services

Medici, Diego ; Filippini, Massimo (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2011 ; 2011ECO009.

In Switzerland, as in many developed countries, a growing number of parents face a pertinent challenge in trying to reconcile family and work commitments. Parents working full-time or part-time may purchase child care services (such as school-meal and after-school services) provided at school or by other professionals, while others directly provide personal care to their children until school...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Modelling freight transport demand and reference dependent choice behaviour

Masiero, Lorenzo ; Maggi, Rico (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2010 ; 2010ECO002.

The thesis focuses on discrete choice models for freight transport demand with a particular emphasis on the estimation of willingness to pay (WTP) and willingness to accept (WTA) measures. In order to cope with the research objective, I extend the classic discrete choice model specifications towards the frontier of the current literature on asymmetric model specifications in stated choice...