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| Type | Working Paper |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | Specification and estimation of rating scale models - with an application to the determinants of life satisfaction |
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| Institution | University of Zurich |
| Series Name | Working paper series / Department of Economics |
| Number | No. 03 |
| ISSN | 1664-7041 (P) 1664-705X (E) |
| Number of Pages | 19 |
| Date | 2011 |
| Abstract Text | This article proposes a new class of rating scale models, which merges advantages and overcomes shortcomings of the traditional linear and ordered latent regression models. Both parametric and semi-parametric estimation is considered. The insights of an empirical application to satisfaction data are threefold. First, the methods are easily implementable in standard statistical software. Second, the non-linear model allows for flexible marginal effects, and predicted means respect the boundaries of the dependent variable. Third, average marginal effects are similar to ordinary least squares estimates. |
| Official URL | http://www.econ.uzh.ch/static/wp/econwp003.pdf |
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| Keywords | Rating variables, non-linear least squares, quasi-maximum likelihood, semiparametric least squares, subjective well-being, Schätzskala,, Zufriedenheit, Methode der kleinsten Quadrate |