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Showing 1 to 20 of 90 for “"Regression Discontinuity Design"”.
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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 …
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Reducing juvenile justice involvement through a childhood truancy intervention
This study employed a mixed methods design to evaluate an elementary school truancy intervention in terms of reducing rates of juvenile delinquency over six years. Few (n = 11) participants became involved in the formal justice system, so the intervention’s effectiveness was measured by …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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. …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Using Data To Optimize The Fulfillment And Location Decisions Of An Online Grocery Retailer
… offerings is economically important using a regression-discontinuity design framework. In the next step, we build and estimate a structural model based on our empirical evidence the parameters of our structural model.
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Essays on political economy and development
… In the first paper, I use a close election regression discontinuity design to study the development effects of political alignment between local legislative constituency representatives and state governments in India. I assemble a comprehensive annual dataset on India at a fine geographic …
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Essays in Applied Microeconomics and Development Economics
… of electing criminal politicians in Peru using a regression-discontinuity design. The analysis suggests that electing a criminal politician is associated with increases in public expending; however, I show that pre-existing levels of expenditure drive these effects.</p>
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Essays on the Economics of Education
… mainly through peer quality, using a regression discontinuity design and exploiting the two separate rounds (early and regular) of college admissions in Taiwan. In the second chapter, focusing on college prestige, I again use a regression discontinuity design to estimate the returns to …
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Testing the relationship between public and private transfers : empirical evidence from South Africa
… for reported pension receipt and use a sharp regression discontinuity design around the pension age-eligibility threshold to see the impact of pension receipt on the level of remittances received. The exogeneity of pension age-eligibility is critical. I first conduct my analysis using …
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Empirical essays on finance and development
… insurance-like features. The results, based on a regression discontinuity design, indicate that insurance against losses arising from natural disasters changes how rural households invest in their farms. Insured farmers utilize more expensive capital inputs and adopt different technologies. …
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The dividend initiation decision : theory and evidence
… for the information-disclosure result using a regression discontinuity design.
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Language Minority Students at Community College: How Do Developmental Education and English as a Second Language Affect Their Educational Outcomes?
… two quasi-experimental studies that use a regression discontinuity design and a difference-in-differences approach to identify the effects of developmental education and ESL coursework on this student population. These studies provide evidence that certain features of pre-college English …
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