A random coefficient probit model with an application to a study of migration.

Abstract This paper extends the ordered response polytomous probit model to a possibly more realistic framework in which the coefficients are allowed to be random. The new method is then used to analyze family migration behavior. It is seen that the new method allows us to make inferences that were not possible in the fixed coefficient model.

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