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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"Robustness checks"”.
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Faster and easier: cross-validation and model robustness checks
… tools, such as cross-validation (CV) and robustness checks, that help us understand exactly how trustworthy our methods are. In both cases (CV and robustness checks), a typical workflow follows the pattern of “change the dataset or method, and then rerun the analysis.” However, this …
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Trade liberalisation, prices and the skill premium in South Africa
… periods, however they do not pass some of the robustness checks that we perform.
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^An^ environment for compositional specification verification of complex embedded systems
… Checking in a flexible Workflow. Pre-defined robustness checks and pattern based specification allows for an easy entrance into automatic verification. More ambitious, graphical specifications of user-defined requirements can be captured using an extension of Symbolic Timing Diagrams (STDx), …
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Financial Literacy across the Commonwealth of Independent States: a Comprehensive Cross-Country Analysis with a Focus on Gender Disparities
… separately for each country, supplemented by robustness checks to ensure the reliability and validity of the results. In addition, a consistent finding across all eight CIS countries is that men tend to outperform women in financial literacy assessments, thereby...
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The Role of the Neighborhood Fast Food Environment in Weight Status of Inner-City Children
… longitudinal analytic techniques and numerous robustness checks, I find no discernible effect of exposure to fast food at the residential neighborhood on children's weight. Policies designed to reduce accessibility to fast food in children's residential neighborhood may not be effective in the …
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Accounting for the environment, earnings quality and financial performance
… earnings manipulation practices and employing robustness checks, including Principal Component Analysis (PCA), the thesis contributes to clarifying CSR-related complexities. The results highlight that while carbon emissions reductions associate with operational efficiency, they lead to …
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Privatization & FDI: Examining Growth in Vietnam's Provinces
… statistically significant even after endogenous robustness checks. Further, I find convincing evidence that provinces with highly planned investment regimes have their growth significantly harmed by state investment and do not benefit from FDI, particularly if they are urbanizing. My results …
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THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN RECEIVING A MENTAL HEALTH DIAGNOSIS AND FIRST TERM ATTRITION (FTA) IN U.S. NAVY SAILORS: A 10-YEAR PANEL STUDY
… a joint model. Linear probability models provide robustness checks. Results indicate heterogeneous associations: the elevated risk suggested by “any diagnosis” attenuates when diagnoses are disaggregated, and the strongest, most consistent associations with FTA are concentrated with substance …
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Exploring Alternative Methodologies for Robust Inferences: Applications in Environmental and Health Economics
… models. I use this recommendation to conduct robustness checks of commonly used methods in environmental and health economics. The first chapter proposes a novel nonparametric regression model to draw credible insights from meta-analyses. Existing literature on benefit-transfer validity is …
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On the Governance of Innovation: Institutional Ownership vs. Stock Price
… impact on R&D policies and innovation. For robustness checks, I examine stock splits, which allow mangers to re-set their stock price levels, and IPOs in which managers set an offering price range before shares are publicly traded. Consistent with my hypothesis, I discover that innovative …
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The relationship between financial performance and changes in farm size in Illinois grain farms
… investigate this relationship from 2003 to 2019. Robustness checks also are conducted to analyze the relationship comparing top and bottom groups sorted by equity-to-asset and farm size. In addition, the study tests different relationships of farm size and different financial dependent variables: …
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Determinants of corporate leverage adjustments: A cross-country analysis
… liquid firms. This result survives a series of robustness checks and holds after addressing the endogeneity concern using exogenous shocks and additional control variables. Further analyses imply that the positive effect of liquidity on the SOA exists only for over-levered firms, and this impact …
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Essays on Social Capital and Peer Effects
… enrolling by 0.541 percentage point. We use robustness checks to illustrate that the estimated peer effects are not driven by the common unobserved factors, but by social interactions. In Chapter 4, we use the survey data on Chinese middle students and the instrumental variables method to …
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Three Essays on The Economics of Sexually Transmitted Infections
… instrumental variables approaches and various robustness checks. For falsification, we show that sex ratios have no impact on several "atheoretical" health conditions, such as Parkinson's disease, chronic lung disease, heart attack, stroke, and diabetes, which do not arise from sexual …
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The Relationship Between ESG Scores and Cost of Debt – Evidence from the S&P 500
… Fifty-six panel data regressions, including robustness checks were used to test the relationship between ESG and its components and cost of debt. The preferred regression model for ESG and its components from 2016 to 2020 was a panel data regression with fixed effects. In contrast to prior …
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Two Essays on Executive Compensation
… firms. These results are robust to a variety of robustness checks such as a matched sample analysis and placebo tests. Overall, our results suggest that poor governance environments are associated with high managerial pay differences and consequently lower firm valuations, supporting the view …
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Essays in Information Finance
… in magnitude and significance, and detrended robustness checks indicate they are concentrated in the common downward trend of computing costs, not year-to-year variation. This essay accordingly provides suggestive, descriptive evidence of an association between cheaper computation and the …
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Three essays in corporate finance
… patents. These results are supported by several robustness checks, tests to mitigate identification concerns, and analyses of several secondary implications. Investment in innovation makes a stock more lottery-like, a feature desired by individuals with a taste for gambling. Gambling preferences …
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Using the Local News: Campaigns, Newspapers, and Accountability
… a finding that passes placebo tests and robustness checks. Finally, I examine whether campaigns can earn positive news coverage. I performed a content analysis on 304 articles from a matched pairs design of Florida newspapers in the 2004 and 2008 elections. I find that regional campaign …
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Three essays on crime policy and the Bayesian bootstrap
… 5 % significance level. Additional analyses and robustness checks support my main findings. In the third chapter, I examine medical marijuana laws (MMLs), which legalize the use, possession, and cultivation of marijuana by individuals with qualifying medical conditions. Namely, I employ …
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