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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Pooled OLS"”.
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The effect of disability on labour market outcomes
… a panel to account for the effects over time. A pooled OLS, a random effects and a fixed effects model were applied on the panel dataset to explain the effects of disability, disability type and disability grants on labour market outcomes. To determine which of these models was the most …
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The impact of environmental accountability on firm corporate lobbying behaviour: an empirical investigation of US listed firms
… performance, this study conducted a pooled OLS regression model and found that high lobbying firms have greater commitment to the environment as now need to get back-up on their feet after suffering from being poor performers; demonstrating commitment towards improving their …
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Determinants of foreign direct investment into sub-saharan Africa and its impact on economic growth.
… the first objective, panel data techniques (pooled OLS and fixed effects) were employed on different samples of SSA and MENA countries for the time period 1996-2010. The findings revealed that return on capital, market size, infrastructure development, human capital, control of corruption, …
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Essays in Islamic Banking, Institutional Quality, and Financial Development Outcomes
… 2014, 2017, and 2021) and estimation using Pooled OLS and IV models with the Muslim population share as an instrument for Islamic banking presence. I find that the presence of Islamic banking has a statistically significant positive effect on financial inclusion and this effect is contingent …
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Foreign Direct Investment in Sub-Sahara Africa.
… to 2018) for 47 SSA countries. The study employs pooled OLS, fixed and random effects estimators, and the system-GMM on data sourced from World Development Indicators (WDI). The findings of the study reveal that GDP growth rate, internet subscription, foreign exchange, human capital development, …
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Financial Development And Health Capital Accumulation
… Using various econometric models such as pooled OLS, fixed effect and instrumental variable approach, the study shows that higher level of financial development positively contributes to health capital accumulation in terms of higher life expectancy and lower infant mortality. But no such …
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Impact of South Africa's older persons' grant on the labour market outcome of prime age individuals
… cross sectional methods, the study makes use of pooled OLS and an Individual Fixed Effect model to estimate different equation specifications which control for various factors. To facilitate better comparison with previous literature, certain regression specifications in both the cross section …
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The Determinants of the Financial Performance of Insurance Companies in Mauritius
… by White, (1980) and Eicker, (1963) within pooled OLS, fixed and random effects panel estimation techniques. The findings show that, a unit increase in the combined ratio and leverage of life insurers impact negatively on the return on assets (ROA), while an increase in reinsurance …
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The role of political and institutional factors in Central Asian trade integration : evidence from the gravity model
… analysis using multiple estimation methods: Pooled OLS, Fixed Effects (FE), Random Effects (RE), Poisson Pseudo Maximum Likelihood (PPML), and Driscoll-Kraay standard errors, which account for heteroskedasticity, autocorrelation, and cross-section dependence. Completeness checks and model …
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Developing a model indicating the effect of Corporate Governance on Accounting Ratios and Firm Value of Firms listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange
… Graphs, Descriptive Statistics, Panel Unit root, Pooled Ordinary Least Square, Pane Co-integration, Trend Analysis, Panel Vector Error Correction Mechanism (PVECM), Sensitivity Analysis, and System-Generalised Method of Moment (GMM). The study was also based on multi-theoretical foundation, which …
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Impacts of a state trader on global wheat trade : a gravity model approach
… model was chosen. This model was estimated using pooled OLS and fixed effects, the latter consisting of both time and country pair fixed effects. The data that was constructed was a large panel data set of bilateral wheat trade spanning from 1970 to 2005. The model was also tested on a number of …
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An Analysis of the European Union Climate Policy: Governance, Domestic Politics and Policy Outcomes
… governments’ ideological composition. I perform pooled OLS regression models with Driscoll and Kraay standard errors and re-sults suggest that the presence of left parties on member-states’ legislatures is associat-ed with increases in environmental policy stringency. Chapter 3 investigates the …
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Social Protection for Well-Being. The effectiveness of social protection programmes in Bangladesh
… 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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Determinants of dividend policy: empirical evidence from Nigerian listed firms.
… from the Nigerian Stock Exchange. Thereafter, pooled OLS models were employed in analysis and testing of the research hypotheses formulated. The findings of this study indicate that dividend payouts were positively correlated to profitability, growth opportunities and liquidity, whereas size, …
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Economics Meets Mortality
… using various econometric methods, specifically pooled OLS, first difference, between and within estimators, and two-way fixed effects (TWFE). The second study focuses on Hungary and investigates whether the Covid-19 pandemic affected the suicide rate of men, applying an interrupted time-series …
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Social Protection for Well-Being. The effectiveness of social protection programmes in Bangladesh
… 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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Essays in Public Education
… different education groups than other models (pooled OLS or random and fixed effects). In addition, this model suggests a significant positive elasticity for public capital.
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An Empirical Study: Evaluating the Impact of Economic, Human Resource, and Governance Factors to Foreign Direct Investment
… resource and governance. In this paper, using Pooled OLS and Fixed Effect (FE), leveraging the outcome of Hausman test to support the decision of choosing Fixed Effect as the appropriate model specification to my designed framework. The goal of this research is to explore the relationship among …
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The influence of planning interventions on the evolution of neighbourhood deprivation in London
… data and effective statistical and econometric tools are shown to be the main barriers to carrying out city-region level analyses of such impacts. To fill the important gap in the field, a novel panel dataset is established at the Census Lower Layer Super Output Area (LSOA) level from 1998 to 2015 …
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Corporate Governance, Firm Performance, and Information Leakage: an Empirical Analysis of the Chinese Stock Market
… this thesis employs the panel technique and the pooled OLS to estimate the effect of corporate governance on firm performance and information leakage in Chinese listed companies. Firstly the relationship between corporate governance and firm performance in Chinese companies is empirically …
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