Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 141 for “"Regression Discontinuity"”.
-
The co-requisite model : a regression discontinuity
… model at Franklin Community College. Logistic regression was used to understand how different subgroups perform. Regression discontinuity showed the impact of the placement test cutoff score on success for students within five points of that cutoff score. After five semesters of implementation …
-
Extrapolation and bandwidth choice in the regression discontinuity design
… contributions to the literature on the regression discontinuity (RD) design. The first two chapters develop approaches to the extrapolation of treatment effects away from the cutoff in RD and use them to study the achievement effects of attending selective public schools, known as exam …
-
Effects of Misassignment on Bias in the Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity
… unbiased estimates of the program effect is the regression discontinuity (RD). However, a major problem encountered when using RD is that participants must be assigned to groups strictly based on a cutoff score - a situation which is likely to be problematic in applied settings. To date, the …
-
Federal mandates and mortgage supply : regression discontinuity analyses of the community reinvestment and GSE Acts.
… family income (MFI) under 80% of MSA MFI. The regression discontinuity (RD) estimates suggest an overall credit supply shift of at least $6 billion ($2007) from 1994 and 2002 in targeted neighborhoods. In addition to CRA's direct effect on bank lending, I also find that unregulated institutions …
-
Essays on the Economics of High School-to-College Transition Programs and Teacher Effectiveness
… requirements for participation. I conduct two regression discontinuity analyses. The first analysis evaluates the effect of dual enrollment using a general grade point average requirement for participation in any course. The second analysis measures the effect of one particular challenging and …
-
Reducing juvenile justice involvement through a childhood truancy intervention
… by re-referrals for continued truancy. The regression discontinuity design was used to compare the intervention group to the comparison group. The intervention group received intensive case management and the comparison group received a warning letter. A regression discontinuity design using …
-
Essays on political economy
… financial benefit to local governments. I use a regression discontinuity design, in order to distinguish between generally partisan transfers (larger transfers to municipalities where the party in power has larger vote share), and the effect of political alignment per se, between the national …
-
Three essays on political economy
… 2: State Parties and State Policies: A Double Regression Discontinuity Approach. This paper identifies the causal effect of partisan power on tax and labor policies in the context of U.S. state legislatures from 1970 to 2000. Using a two dimensional regression discontinuity design, I identify …
-
Identifying and estimating the distributional effects of unionization and the long-term consequences of military service
… for estimating quantile treatment effects in a regression discontinuity design. It shows nonparametric identification, develops estimators, including a data-driven bandwidth choice, and illustrates the methodology by estimating the effects of an Oklahoma universal pre-K program on the quantiles …
-
The Benefits of Mandatory Disclosure: Evidence from Regulation S-X Article 11
… incentive alignment problems. Using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design, I provide evidence that pro formas reduce post-acquisition forecast errors and improve target selection. The improvement in forecast accuracy (target selection) is concentrated in acquirers with low analyst following …
-
Financial decisions of households
… bias in the consumer credit card market. Using a regression-discontinuity design, I find sharp increases in credit card repayments around $1,000 monthly balance thresholds. The estimated effect, an approximately $20 increase in repayment, translates to about 4.35 percent of the average payment. …
-
Evaluating the South African National School Nutrition Programme
… Programme on nutritional outcomes using a regression discontinuity design applied to the first wave of the National Income Dynamic Study. There is tentative evidence to suggest that the programme has a positive effect on weight-for- age and BMI-for-age z-scores, but data constraints …
-
Pension benefits and social cohesion
… pension program, Renta Dignidad. Using a regression discontinuity design as well as a novel difference-in-discontinuities design, I find that recipients of pension benefits are overall more likely to display increased support for the central government and that in provinces where both …
-
Do classified boards protect top management? : evidence from shareholder proposals
… and managerial entrenchment by applying a panel regression discontinuity design to shareholder proposals on board declassification. We focus on shareholder proposals that pass or fail by a small margin of votes in order to provide a causal estimate of the impact of board declassification. We find …
-
Essays on Health Economics
… reimbursement of long-term care. We apply a regression discontinuity design using administrative data from South Korea to estimate the impact of subsidies for formal home and institutional care on informal care use and medical expenditures. We find that reimbursement leads to increases in …
-
Student financial aid : three essays
… The argument uses a combination of reduced-form regression-discontinuity estimates of enrollment elasticities and a structural model that captures general equilibrium effects. Estimates using Chilean administrative records suggest that 20% of currently enrolled poor students will lose seats to …
-
Essays in financial economics
… shareholder value, and competition by applying a regression discontinuity design to the outcome of CSR shareholder proposals. The approval of CSR proposals generates positive abnormal returns on the vote date, increases CSR scores, increases market shares, and increases the CSR scores of industry …
-
Territorial Challenges and Sustainable Regional Development. A mixed-method approach
… landscape fragmentation using a boundary-based regression discontinuity design on CORINE Land Cover (1990–2018) and the MESH metric, finding robust reductions inside parks but rapid attenuation outside borders. Chapter 3 treats Protected Areas as social–ecological systems, combining Ostrom’s …
-
IMPACT OF EDUCATIONAL POLICIES AND STRUCTURES ON STUDENTS’ FUTURE OUTCOMES
… in Singapore. By employing a Difference-in-Regression Discontinuity method, the study analyzes the effects of the policy reform on labor market return to students graduating with the highest honors class. Findings reveal that grade inflation had minimal overall impact on labor market …
-
Three Quasi-Experimental and Experimental Papers in Environmental Economics
… and draw-backs of using a quasi-experimental regression discontinuity approach to analyze the ozone regulation contained in the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments. Chapter two explores the impacts how economic and social-psychology factors affect the adoption of an environmental technology, namely …
Page 1 of 8