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The demand for school meal services by Swiss households

Filippini, Massimo ; Masiero, Giuliano ; Medici, Diego

In: Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 2014, vol. 85, no. 3, p. 475-495

In this paper we investigate the household demand for childcare during lunchtime at school using a stated preferences approach. Data are collected through phone- structured interviews to 905 residents with children in the German-speaking region of Switzerland during 2007. Poisson models with random and fixed effects are used to explore factors affecting the demand. Ordinal probit models are also...

The role of the reference alternative in the specification of asymmetric discrete choice models

Masiero, Lorenzo ; Rose, John M.

Within the discrete choice modelling literature, there has been growing interest in including reference alternatives within stated choice survey tasks. Recent studies have investigated asymmetric utility specifications by estimating discrete choice models that include different parameters according to gains and losses relative to the values of the reference attributes. This paper analyses...