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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Difference in differences (DID)"”.
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Will dockless bike sharing system alter the subway price premium in rental market? : evidence from Beijing
The dockless bike-sharing system emerged in 2016 in China. It achieves door-to-door connection and is thus regarded as an efficient solution to the urban last mile problem. Empirical studies have found that the entry of dockless bikes can flatten the rent price gradient for subway accessibility for …
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The Impact of a Behavioral Intervention on Parent Sleep Hygiene Behaviors
Objectives: A longitudinal randomized control trial (RCT) was conducted to determine whether a sleep hygiene intervention improved long-term child sleep. This study assessed whether the intervention changed child night time media usage in the intervention group relative to the control group, as …
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Assessment of subsidized shared transport services on mobility patterns: Evidence and Lessons from cellphone mobility data
Understanding how emerging shared transport services affect urban mobility is critical for designing sustainable and equitable transit systems. However, empirical evidence on the real-world impacts of subsidized shared transport services remains limited. This study evaluates the impacts of two such …
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Labor Market Adjustments Under Economic Shocks: Evidence from the U.S.
… employs a quasi-experimental design to examine how major economic shocks—the COVID-19 pandemic, immigration restrictions, and the U.S.-China tariff war (2018–2020)—reshaped labor demand and employer skill requirements in the United States. Using econometric methods on panel data from online …
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Essays on Women's Empowerment and Economic Development in Iran
… consists of three essays on women empowerment in Iran. In the first two chapters, we examine the impact of the rapid expansion of electricity to rural areas of Iran after the 1979 revolution on two important determinants of women's empowerment, fertility and female literacy. We use the timing …
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Bank regulation, supervision and financial stability: An empirical study
… PhD thesis explores the relationship between banking regulations and supervision, and financial stability. In terms of the financial stability, I focus on the banking industry and, particularly, on the role of foreign banks in the transmission of shocks through the lending channel. Additionally, I …
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Impact de l'implantation du module d'enregistrement des ventes sur le secteur de la restauration au Québec
C’est grâce à une initiative de Revenu Québec, avec la collaboration de l’Association des restaurateurs du Québec, que le module d'enregistrement des ventes a été déployé dans le secteur de la restauration, entre le 1er septembre 2010 et le 1er novembre 2011, afin de lutter contre l’évasion …
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Three essays in corporate finance
This dissertation consists of three essays in corporate finance. There are five chapters. In the first essay, we find that local gambling preferences have economically meaningful effects on corporate innovation. Using a county's Catholics-to-Protestants ratio as a proxy for local gambling …
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Internal displacement and the education of school-aged children in Colombia
Internal displacement in Colombia is a country-wide phenomenon that has affected almost five percent of the country's population or 14% of the country's rural population. Colombia's violent conflict has not reached yet a post-conflict stage since no peace agreement has been reached between the …
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Three Essays on Economics of Risky Behavior
… who consume pornography more likely to engage in risky sexual behaviors? Using longitudinal data from the National Study of Youth and Religion (NSYR) and an individual fixed effects strategy, chapter one investigates the relationship between pornography use among 13- to 23-year-olds and a range …
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An empirical investigation into music listening behaviour in the presence of the network effect
The rapid expansion of online platforms has revolutionised the digital media industry, transforming the way people consume digital content and interact with each other and the platforms. The network effects (NEs) play a vital role in the success of online platforms, fostering user collaboration and …
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From Theory to Practice: Improving Causal Conclusions from Healthcare Data
Causal inference in biomedical, epidemiological, and health policy research often relies on observational data, such as electronic health records (EHRs), patient registries, or insurance claims, to compensate for the inaccessibility of randomized controlled trials. However, causal inference from …
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The effects of horizontal fiscal equalization on the expenditures of local governments: the case of Seoul, Korea
The role of Fiscal Equalization (FE) transfers in economic development has been discussed extensively in studies of local/regional public finance. In a fiscally decentralized system, FE aims not just at reducing fiscal imbalance between jurisdictions, but also at enhancing productivity by leading …
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Essays on Waste Generation
This dissertation addresses key gaps in the literature on sustainability and waste management by investigating the complex interrelationships between waste generation, selective collection systems, and environmental behavior. Although the individual chapters focus on different aspects of the topic, …
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Policy Diffusion in U.S. Hazard Mitigation Planning: An Intergovernmental Perspective
… the disaster resilience policy literature by examining the diffusion of hazard mitigation policy in the U.S. Using the three-paper model, it investigates the adoption of local hazard mitigation plans (LHMPs) from an intergovernmental perspective. The first paper focuses on horizontal diffusion in …
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Information frictions and the integration of international capital markets
This thesis comprises three individual studies examining factors associated with information frictions in the international capital market. Study I examines the impact of loosening disclosure requirements initiated by Rule 12h-6 on firm innovation. Using a difference-in-differences (DID) research …
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Information frictions and the integration of international capital markets
This thesis comprises three individual studies examining factors associated with information frictions in the international capital market. Study I examines the impact of loosening disclosure requirements initiated by Rule 12h-6 on firm innovation. Using a difference-in-differences (DID) research …
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Medication Nonadherence, Health Care Utilization, and SafeMed Care Transitions Model Impact in Super-Utilizers
<p>BACKGROUND: Super-utilizers are individuals with disproportionately high inpatient and emergency department (ED) use, and mostly have multiple chronic conditions and use multiple concurrent medications. They place a substantial burden on the U.S. healthcare system and have become the focus of …
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Refugee Economies: labour market integration, the gender gap in employment, and the impact of refugees in Jordan
A substantial increase in the number of refugees has occurred in the recent decade, with the majority of this increase occurring between 2012 and 2015 as a result of the Syrian conflict. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) data, the number of refugees was 10.5 …