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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Panel data methods"”.
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Military spending, economic growth and endogeneity a panel analysis 1988-2010
… on economic growth on a large balanced panel, using an exogenous growth model and dynamic panel data methods for 104 countries over the period 1988-2010. The prime objective of the paper is to consider the possibility of non-linearity, group heterogeneity and endogeneity within the …
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Quantile Regression for Panel Data
… the problem, we employ the quantile regression panel methods. The analysis shows that the program impact is largest in the lower tail of the conditional educational attainment distribution. This was conjectured by the original authors, but could not be confirmed empirically using conventional …
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Fertility, age, and the motherhood wage penalty in South Africa
… experienced by mothers and non-mothers using panel data methods, as well as Ordinary Least Squares. I find that mothers in South Africa experience a small penalty, but this is not experienced equally for all mothers. Mothers with three or more children experience a greater penalty than mothers …
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Labour market participation and access to internet during Covid-19 lockdown: Case of South Africa
… the extensive margin in South Africa. Using the data from the 2020 and 2021 General Household Surveys administered by Statistics South Africa, and three identifications strategies (instrumental variable strategy, panel data methods and propensity score matching), the study finds a desirable …
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The role of the forestry sector in regional economic development: A case study of Minas Gerais, Brazil
… forestry sectors at sub-state level. Employing panel data methods and input-output analysis, the results show that plantation areas are associated with less poverty over time and higher per capita income. However, the regional analysis shows the economic multipliers of forest plantations are …
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The Effects of Physician Organization on the Disadoption of Low-Value Services: Evidence From PSA Testing and Mammography
… screening recommendation in 2009. Using claims data from 2007-2013 from a major insurer in the Southeast Pennsylvania region, I employ dynamic panel data methods and find that physicians are significantly and positively affected by peers who practice in the same physical location while the …
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The Effects of Changes in Minimum Wage on Wages, Employment and Hours Worked in Indonesia.
… in this thesis. Firstly, using a regional panel data method, this study examines the effects of changes in minimum wage on wages and employment in Indonesia. Although the findings vary across different minimum wage measures and panel data methods, the result suggests that an increase in …
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Organizational Performance Relative to Aspirations: Exogenous Roots of Performance Feedback
… the proposed conceptual model using a set of panel data methods. Essay 3 further elaborates on the idea of external roots in performance feedback by looking at the organizational slack as the barrier between external and internal coalition members. Unlike the earlier literature which …
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The impact of the global financial crisis and institutional settings on corporate financial decisions.
Since theories of corporate finance are recognised to be conditional, this study explores the impact of the global financial crisis (GFC) of 2007-2009 and institutional settings in determining corporate financial decisions. The recession on the supply of credit and demand for credit affects the …
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Essays on financial development and economic performance
… performance using a variety of time series and panel data methods. Also, it extends the previous finance-growth literature by examining the role of democracy in the process. Three inter-related studies form the work undertaken. Chapter 2: In the first of these the impact of financial development …
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Essays on Tree-based Methods for Prediction and Causal Inference
… to a residential electricity smart meter trial dataset. Household specific estimates are obtained for the effect of a Time-of-Use pricing scheme on peak demand. The most and least responsive households differ across education, age, employment status, and past electricity consumption. The results …
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Essays on Energy and Behavioral Financial Economics
… subject in literature. Using a rich, novel dataset and panel data methods, this paper estimates the effect of a set of key macroeconomic variables on the capital structure and investment outcomes of SMEs within the Turkish power sector. Our results indicate that unfavorable macroeconomic …
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Essays on Development in Sub-Saharan African Countries
… 2 extends this topic by utilizing a pseudo panel data constructed with multiple waves of repeated cross-sectional data, which allows us to use fixed-effect and other panel data methods to address the problem of unobserved "ability" bias. For pseudo panel, we use age, gender and some other …
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Does corporate governance impact on the sustainable return of IPOs? A comparative analysis of China and New Zealand IPOs listed between 1999 and 2004
… with a small stock market. The quality of data and analysis for two such very different economics provides an opportunity for careful diagnostic and specification testing. In this study a more robust empirical analysis, extending the commonly used OLS approach, through several panel data …
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Social Networks and Individual Labor Market Outcomes - Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Panel Data
… linked administrative employer-employee panel dataset. While the dataset does not contain direct information on social ties, it does have anonymous firm and individual identifiers, which can be used to identify different segments of networks, such as former co-workers and university …