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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"OLS-Model"”.
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The child support "tax" : determining the effect of child support on the income growth of noncustodial parents
… income growth. Using an Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) model with state-level fixed effects applied to panel data from the National Study of Families and Households (NSFH), I find that having a legal agreement to pay child support has a significant and negative effect on the income growth of the …
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Spatial modeling of soil salinity using remote sensing, GIS, and field data
… systems (GIS), remote sensing, and spatial modelling techniques. Com and alfalfa crops were selected as indicators of soil salinity during 2001 and 2004 respectively. Five images were acquired from Aster, Ikonos, and Landsat to check the correlation between measured soil salinity and remote …
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A Random Coefficient Analysis of the United States Gasoline Market From 1960-1995
… prediction; (2) evaluate the elasticities of the models presented to determine which model is more accurate at capturing supply shocks that impacted gasoline demand; and (3) evaluate the behavior of the elasticites of the beta coefficients. This research will show that the variation from …
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INNOVATION IN POLICING REGARDING EU MEMBERSHIP IN TURKEY: POLICE OFFICERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF COMMUNITY POLICING
… analyse the primary data. The findings from the OLS regression analysis demonstrate that COP has the potential to be implemented in Turkey. After creating dependent and one independent variable using factor analysis, the results reveals that COP officers strongly support the program and they have …
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Female labour force participation amidst the reestablishment of the Islamic emirate of Afghanistan 2021-2023
… approach using the ordinary least squares (OLS) model that estimates data from 1990-2021 with the qualitative in-depth interviews that capture a varied spectrum of respondents. This study found that political stability has the highest positive impact on female labour force participation, …
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Index participation units and the performance of index futures markets and index options markets
… futures price as per the Cost of Carry model, we find that the positive mispricing is reduced when SPDRs are introduced. When the absolute values of the differences are used as the measure of efficiency, the results also show an improvement in the pricing efficiency of the futures …
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Foreign direct investment and growth in Tanzania : roles of the domestic financial system and human capital
… for unit roots, an Ordinary Least Square (OLS) model is estimated in order to test for the existence of long-run relationships between the variables by conducting F-test for joint significance of the coefficients of lagged levels of variables.
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Effects of Agglomeration on Labor Productivity : Empirical Cross-country Evidence from the Nordics
… This study uses a linear ordinary least squares (OLS) model to estimate this effect. The data consists of 70 regional observations and the model comprises of employment density as the explanatory variable, varying number of education level control variables and dummy variables for different …
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Exploring Foreign Direct Investment, Democracy, and Consumption: Insights From Middle East and North Africa Nations and Oil-Exporting Countries
… including the pooled ordinary least squares (OLS) model, the fixed effect model, the random effect model, and the Fully Modified OLS model. The dataset used in the study comprised 12 selected MENA countries and spanned the period 1995 to 2021. The results showed that the previous year’s …
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The Conditional Effects of Female Descriptive Representation: A Study of Policy Influence in State Legislatures, 1983-2002
… exerts policy influence. Five theoretical models were presented and tested in this work: The Presence Model, the Simple Incorporation Model, the Specific Institutional Incorporation Model, The Broad Institutional Incorporation Model, and The Party as a Substantive Representative Model. The …
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Object-Based Coastal Morphological Change Analysis Based on LiDAR and Hurricane Events
… to the change using ordinary least square (OLS) analysis. The third analysis was carried out using the classification and regression tree (CART) analysis. Of the study area, 18.64% encountered erosional processes and 11.35% with depositional processes during Hurricane Ivan, whereas during …
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Social Protection for Well-Being. The effectiveness of social protection programmes in Bangladesh
… from 2002 to 2019 and employing a pooled OLS model, this study shows that social protection expenditure increases the primary (education) completion rate and reduces the child (under 5) mortality rate in developing countries. It also reveals that the effect of social protection on …
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Social Protection for Well-Being. The effectiveness of social protection programmes in Bangladesh
… from 2002 to 2019 and employing a pooled OLS model, this study shows that social protection expenditure increases the primary (education) completion rate and reduces the child (under 5) mortality rate in developing countries. It also reveals that the effect of social protection on …
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Urban Core vs. Suburban Fringe: Asymmetrical Fiscal Effects of Tax and Expenditure Limitations in Metropolitan Areas
… on a standard fixed effects dummy variable OLS model with constant slope coefficients and variable intercept. The sample (N = 166,530) contains 7 periods of observation at 5 year intervals of 745 metropolitan counties from 270 metropolitan areas. The unit of analysis is the metropolitan …
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Is manufacturing the silver bullet engine of growth for South Africa?
… (VAR) multivariate ordinary least squares (OLS) model, the Granger causality was examined to test for intersectoral relationships amongst the sectors. Contrary to Kaldor's theory of the growth pulling effect of the manufacturing sector (Kaldor,1966,1968), the data analysis suggested that the …
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Assessing Coastal Plain Wetland Composition using Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer Imagery
… or absence of water in a logistic regression model that predicted the location of over 78% of the wetlands. While this was slightly less accurate (78% vs. 86%) than current National Wetland Inventory (NWI) aerial photo interpretation procedures of locating wetlands, satellite imagery analysis …
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Does Diversity Matter?: Evidence from the Relationship Between an Institution's Diversity and the Salaries of its Graduates
… the conversation by introducing a theoretical model grounded in the literature that explains why employers might seek college graduates who have been exposed to more diversity and then empirically explores the benefits to graduates who attend more racially and ethnically diverse institutions. …
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The Interaction of Policy, Credit Demand and Credit Supply in Banking System
… banks to make major changes within credit risk modeling, risk tolerance and capital management. Therefore, the objective of this study is to assess CECL’s treatment effect on bank’s lending strategy and risk profile management. My main model is a difference-in-difference model to study the …
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Socio-demographic and service provision characteristics associated with primary school attendance among the most vulnerable children in Tanzania
… contribution by employing a residualized change model or a lagged dependent variable to adjust for selection bias. This involved using pre- and post-test measures (referred to as Time 1 and Time 2, respectively) of MVC’s primary school attendance during 40 days before and after receiving services …
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GEOGRAPHIC DATA MINING AND GEOVISUALIZATION FOR UNDERSTANDING ENVIRONMENTAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH DATA
… methods used included the ordinary least square (OLS) model, the spatial generalized linear mixed model (GLMM), Kulldorff's Scan space-time analysis, and the spatial interpolation techniques (inverse distance weighting). The three main findings for this study are: first, among the four algorithms …
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