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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Selection effect"”.
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Performance pay and teacher selection: do performance pay programs attract higher-ability teachers?
… these programs, we know little about their effects. Theory suggests that performance pay programs may provide an incentive for teachers to work harder (an effort effect). In addition, districts offering performance pay may attract teachers with higher average ability (a selection effect). …
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Transaction Cost Economics of Rice Irrigation Systems in Tanzania: Implications for Collective Action
… econometric analyses techniques (Heckman sample selection, Mixed effect linear model, SFA and 2SLS) in each objective, four major findings emerged: Self-selection effect has greater impact on CA survival; the TC related to contact, and control influence the institutional quality; CA affect the …
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Labor Migration in China
… migration choice, we show that the size of the selection effect on wage depends on the wage differences between the prefectures of origin and destination as well as migration cost. The selection effect also differs among workers with different education and in different cities. Chapter 3 studies …
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Essays About Newspaper Political Endorsements
… evidence that this advantage is not driven by a selection effect, suggesting that it is instead explained by readers deciding how to vote based on endorsements read on Election Day. This chapter's results imply both a causal effect of newspaper political endorsements on voting outcomes, and that …
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Testing the orphanhood method against benchmark mortality rates in South Africa since 1996
… method estimates are biased by adoption effect, selection effect and age exaggeration. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the advent of HIV/AIDS has also biased estimates obtained from the orphanhood method. Non-independence of the mortality of children and their mothers, relationships …
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Essays on political boundaries
… in a merger. In the second chapter, I examine selection effects in the cross-country state system. The countries present today are only part of a larger set of potential countries. Since many modern states originated as colonies, colonial data can be used to examine correlates of independence. …
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A COMPARISON OF PSYCHOLOGICAL ADJUSTMENT AND COGNITIVE FUNCTIONING BETWEEN ADOPTED AND INSTITUTION-REARED CHILDREN IN CHILE
… of maternal and paternal stress. Although a selection effect cannot be ruled out, with higher functioning children more likely to be adopted, the results point to a beneficial effect of adoption on the psychological development and wellbeing of institutionalised children in Chile.
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Diversity Relationships in Native, Warm-Season Plant Communities used for Agriculture
… of this research were: 1) to measure the effects of native, warm-season perennial (NWSP) forage mixtures and management methods on productivity, weed biomass, nutritive value, and community composition, and 2) to identify mechanisms that generate any positive diversity-productivity …
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Urinary Volatile Organic Compounds for Detection of Breast Cancer and Monitoring Chemical and Mechanical Cancer Treatments in Mice
… can non-invasively help in prognosis and selection of treatment regimens. The hypothesis is altered profiles of urinary volatile metabolites is directly related to disrupted metabolic pathways. Additionally, effectiveness of treatments can be indicated through changes in concentration of …
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Attitudes towards family and marriage in time and context: using two British birth cohorts for comparison
… and behaviour have focused on either the selection or adaptation effects of attitudes, with fewer (particularly of those using British data) specifically addressing the possibility of both processes taking place. This study’s main goal is to address the latter using the data of two British …
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Essays in financial economics
… capital markets. The first chapter estimates the effect of competition from low-cost index funds on fees in the money management industry. A difference-in-differences analysis exploiting the staggered entry of index funds finds that while actively managed funds sold directly to retail investors …
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Quality, Variety, and Parity: Prices in International Trade
… modes, the observed distance premium conflates a selection effect with a direct effect. I also demonstrate that the standard Alchian-Allen analysis does not apply if goods are shipped by multiple modes of transportation, undermining an additional theoretical basis for predicting that average …
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Essays in Venture Capital and Corporate Finance
… are these other policies and what are their effects on capital markets, investment, and the economy more broadly? In this paper, I examine a 2018 U.S. law (FIRRMA), which expanded the government’s ability to review and block transactions on national security grounds to include venture capital …
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AN INVESTIGATION OF FIRM RESPONSES TO RAPID VS. CONTINUOUS INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE: DYNAMIC VIEW OF FIRM PERFORMANCE AT POST-ENTRY
… their operations other countries. Chapter 2: The Effect of Different Post-Entry Experiences on Changing Market Entry Choices The second chapter focuses on post-entry operations of multinational retail firms that are required to offer a standardized service for an effective knowledge redeploying, …
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Firm level export dynamics and market access costs: evidence from Kenya
… hazard approach and panel logit with fixed effects that control for unobserved firm heterogeneity are used in the analysis. Export survival is found to be higher amongst firms with larger product scope; wider geographic scope of exports and larger current export value. This suggests that a …
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Self-selection and peer-effects in experimental labor markets
… labor market interactions, social norms and peer-effects in non-cognitive skills acquisition.</p> <p>In my first Chapter, I use experimental methods to better understand behavioral roots of corruption. Corruption is endemic to most developing countries. Most of the recent research in economics has …