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Showing 1 to 20 of 143 for “"Causal effects"”.
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Identifying causal effects of public policies
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1998.
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Discovering Heterogeneous Causal Effects in Relational Data
… data. There is growing interest in deriving causal insights from such data which is inherently relational in nature. Causal inference in relational settings has to account for interference, where a unit's outcome may be influenced by the treatments or outcomes of other units. Despite recent …
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ESSAYS ON NONPARAMETRIC ESTIMATION OF HETEROGENEOUS CAUSAL EFFECTS
… strategies for the distribution of heterogeneous causal effects with applications to labor economics and macroeconomics. \par In the first chapter, I propose a nonparametric strategy to identify the distribution of heterogeneous causal effects. A set of identifying restrictions proposed in this …
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<em>CausalModels</em>: An R Library for Estimating Causal Effects
… tools similar to these are limited in terms of causal inference. The tools in R that exist lack consistent and standardized methodologies and inputs. R lacks a comprehensive package that offers traditional causal inference methods such as standardization, IP weighting, G-estimation, outcome …
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Causal Effects of European Active Labor Market Policy : Foundations and Empirics
… any such program, in order to identify a causal effect of the labor market program on the desired outcome measure. This thesis assesses causal effects of European ALMP from a threefold perspective. First, it gives a thorough discussion of methodological issues that arise in the venture of …
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Empirical Essays on Causal Effects of Job Training Programs: Evidence From Korea
… looking at wages. This chapter finds positive effects on employability (0.026), but negative effects on wages (-8.4%), both of which are statistically significant. We conduct sensitivity analysis to violations of our main identifying assumption that confirms our results are robust to unobserved …
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Statistical Approaches to Estimate Bidirectional and Time-Varying Causal Effects Using Mendelian Randomization
… as instrumental variables (IVs) to examine the causal effect of an exposure on an outcome. It is widely used to detect causal factors of diseases and provide insight into the biological pathway of diseases. Current methods under the MR framework are built to estimate the unidirectional causal …
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Quantifying the causal effects of climate change on land use and bird biodiversity
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01
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The Causal Effects of Mandatory Quarterly Earnings Guidance on Corporate Information Environment and Corporate Short-Termism
I examine the causal effects of mandatory quarterly earnings guidance using a regulatory mandate in China that required a subset of listed firms to issue bundled quarterly earnings guidance from 2007 to 2018. A difference-in-differences analysis shows that when these firms are no longer required to …
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The ‘Must Have’ Imperative of Social Value. Causal effects of Globalisation and Reflections on the Future of Ethics in Business.
Environmental deterioration and social and economic inequality are just two of the many problems to have emerged as a result of economic globalisation, the movement which has significantly altered the global economic landscape. The need to reconsider the existing economic model and investigate …
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Comparing Male and Female Student Self-Efficacy, Identification, And Achievement In Mathematics: A Cross-Lagged Panel Analysis of Causal Effects
Understanding the direction of causality in the relationship between self-beliefs and academic performance is essential in educational research. The two purposes of this study were to examine the temporal relationships between mathematical identity, mathematical self-efficacy, and mathematics …
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Altruism and the role of affect: an investigation into the causal effects of positive emotions and its rationality on altruism
… opportunity. In chapter three, I investigate the causal effect of positive affect on altruism. I employed two estimation strategies where in the first strategy, I used an instrumental variable approach to estimate the effects of affect on altruism. In the second strategy, I relaxed the assumption …
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Modeling Utilization of Planned Information Technology
… However, measurement of the interaction effects between these entities can act as a proxy for individual attribute values. A model is proposed which based upon evaluation of these interaction effects can predict technology utilization. This model was tested with systems being implemented …
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Three essays on factors influencing changes in labor and marriage markets
… 2 (joint with Xiaoyin Li) investigates the effects of the relaxation of labor laws on youth employment. The study specifically targets 16-17-year -old youth in Wisconsin and utilizes the change in the working hour restriction in 2011 as a quasi-experiment. The study examines how extending …
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The effects of the relationship between racial identity and the nature and frequency of interracial contact on racial prejudice and social distance
… and contact theory, this study looked at the effects of racial identity on contact and prejudice. The sample consisted of 826 UCT students who belonged to the White and African population groups. Their mean age was 20.50 and they were 52.54% females and 47.46% males. A pilot study using 42 …
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Essays in Health and Labor Economics
… of three essays. The first essay analyzes the causal effect of HIV education and incentives (home-based HIV testing and conditional cash transfer) on HIV testing decision. The second essay analyzes the short- and medium-term causal effects of HIV testing on HIV infection expectations and sexual …
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Investigation of a proposed achievement model: Using LISREL structural modeling
… purpose of the present study was to examine the causal effects of selected variables on learning performance. Specifically, this study investigated the relative importance of two types of time variables, that is, homework time and the ratio of time spent in learning (TSL) to time needed for …
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Machine Learning for causal Inference on Observational Data
… although RCTs are the best way to determine causal effects, the chances to perform such rigorous scientific experiments is, most often, either impossible or unethical. The Average Treatment Effect (ATE) is usually the outcome of the RCT experiments and this outcome is ideally proof of an …
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Next-Generation Mendelian Randomization: Advanced and Reliable Methods for Complex Causal Inference
… variants as instrumental variables to study the causal effects of exposures on outcomes. Conventional MR is primarily implemented to test or estimate effects in relatively simple forms. However, to gain deeper insights into causal mechanisms, improve decision-making, and enhance the …
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The effect of child disability/delay status and functional abilities on father involvement: an application of propensity score analysis
… studies that do not provide estimates of causal effects. Propensity score analysis was used to estimate the causal effect of child disability/delay status on father routine caregiving, literacy, play, and responsive caregiving involvement. The association between functional abilities and …
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