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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"endogeneity bias"”.
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Understanding consumer demand in customised pricing environments
… by a dependence between price and demand, or endogeneity of price, since prices are regularly varied in anticipation of changes to demand. This problem is particularly severe in customised pricing environments, where sellers have some freedom to quote different prices for different orders, …
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Using panel data to estimate the returns to schooling in South Africa
… are fraught with difficulties arising from the endogeneity of education. Individual effects that cannot be measured, such as ability and family background, cause bias in the estimates because they are correlated with education. A panel data approach is thus potentially superior to a …
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U.S. school quality: The public benefits of primary and secondary education
… studies. The second essay aims to remove the endogeneity bias between educational expenditures and inmigration with generalized propensity score methods. We restrict the study period to 2006–2010 and our focus to the population aged 25–49 years. We find that increases in educational …
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Essays in labour economics: School leaving, unemployment and retirement
… an instrumental variable approach to address the endogeneity bias. Consistent with the "use it or lose it" hypothesis, the results suggests that retirement contributes significantly to the cognitive decline suffered at older ages by British workers. The final section of the thesis summarises the …
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Assessing marketing and aid strategies to stimulate economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa
… in SSA using recent data, while addressing endogeneity problems that typically plague the aid-growth relationship. In particular, I focus on the relationship between political stability, foreign aid and growth because although political stability is a pertinent factor affecting growth in …
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Essays in Internal Capital Markets in the U.S. Property-Liability Insurance Industry
… findings are robust to corrections for potential endogeneity bias. I also find evidence of a non-linear relationship between efficiency and the size of internal capital markets. Internal capital markets should continue to expand as long as the benefit of relaxing credit constraints is greater than …
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Financial Literacy and Stock Market Participation in Sweden
… and many research papers have poor controls for endogeneity bias. To redress these shortcomings, this thesis takes a mixed methods approach. First, a comprehensive financial literacy test is developed and analysed using item response theory: the survey included 1554 respondents who are the …
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Topics in Macro Finance
… dynamics, whilst weakening the impact of any endogeneity bias which the empirical estimation framework used may be subject to. The earliest data used in this research starts from the 18th century. In the first chapter, entitled “Macro Drivers of Equity Market Volatility”, the focus is on the …
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Does mobile money have a part to play in poverty reduction within South Africa?
… variable approach was used to treat the endogeneity bias seen by the two-way relationship between poverty and mobile money adoption. Factors such as gender, age, location, race, and access to necessities such as electricity, clean water and sanitation were additional factors used to …
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The value of field experiments in estimating demand elasticities and maximizing profit
… Historical data often suffer from the problem of endogeneity bias, but we show that our estimation method is robust to the presence of endogeneity. Besides estimating demand elasticities, firms are also interested in using these elasticities to choose an optimal set of prices in order to maximize …
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An Analysis of the Demand for Rail Transportation of Corn, Soybeans, and Wheat in South Dakota
… Instrumental variables were used to test for endogeneity bias present in the ordinary least squares estimation. Truck prices and rail shipment sizes were used to instrument for rail price in a generalized method of moments estimation of the corn model. The soybean and wheat models were …
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Determinants of mobile money subscriptions induced by conventional banks in Sub-Saharan Africa.
… research report methodology issues such as endogeneity bias, heteroscedasticity, serial correlation, significant coefficient selection and valid instrument selection measured in the short and long run. Mobile money is termed disruptive when undertaken by mobile network operators that …
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Asian Export Performance: Diversification, Product Variety, and Productivity
… and long-effects while minimising possible endogeneity bias. The econometric evidence indicates that export diversification is negatively associated with long-run export growth of total non-oil exports and the main product categories. These findings are consistent with the standard trade …
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Asian Export Performance: Diversification, Product Variety, and Productivity
… and long-effects while minimising possible endogeneity bias. The econometric evidence indicates that export diversification is negatively associated with long-run export growth of total non-oil exports and the main product categories. These findings are consistent with the standard trade …
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Determinants of foreign direct investment and its relationship to economic growth
… significantly outperform existing ones as endogeneity bias and model uncertainty are controlled for in that context. Among the main conclusions, we show that FDI inflows depends on market size and market growth, established bilateral trade, openness of the host country, bilateral investment …
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The economics of a new health technology: an evaluation of the impact of statins on lifestyle behaviors
… analytical strategies to account for potential endogeneity bias--namely, panel data and physician/clinic-based instrumental variable methods. To test the practical implications of behavioral changes associated with statin use, multiple simulations are conducted to estimate the economic and …
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Essays On Health Economics
… I adopt three approaches to control for endogeneity bias due to targeting. First, I use average audience characteristics of the media an individual views to capture targeting. Second, I use media fixed effects to directly control for media choice. Third, I exploit variation in advertising …
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Child wellbeing and economic development: evidence from Indonesia
… mental health. To address the potential endogeneity bias of child work, two instruments - minimum wage and the number of family-owned businesses by the household are employed. Considering the nature of the main outcome variable of interest – the mental health score, this study applies an …
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The impact of corporate governance compliance and capital structure on firm performance: Evidence from Pakistan
… to control for econometric issues, especially endogeneity bias. Findings: The results of the summative measure – that is, the CG compliance index (CGCI) – demonstrated improved firm performance of the non-financial listed companies of Pakistan. Among the formative measures, ‘board size’ was …
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