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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"event history analysis"”.
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Unobserved Heterogeneity in Event History Analysis: A Quantile Regression Approach
… of the unobserved heterogeneity problem in event history analysis. In Chapter 2 we analyze the estimation and inference procedures of MPH models. In chapter 3 we examine the theoretical properties of random effects duration quantiles, while in Chapter 4 we present a Monte Carlo study of the …
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Person or place? A contextual event-history analysis of homicide victimization risk
This study is a contextual event history analysis of the risk of homicide victimization in the United States from 1986 to 2002. Although the majority of research on homicide deals with how community factors influence homicide rates, a much less studied aspect of homicide victimization deals with …
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An event history analysis of socio-economic determinants of adult mortality in Namibia
… The main objective of the study was to apply an event history discrete time survival analysis approach to elucidate effects of socio-economic factors on adult mortality in Namibia. Specifically I simultaneously estimated the effects of socio-economic determinants on adult mortality in Namibia; as …
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Comparison of Event History Analysis and Latent Growth Modeling for College Student Perseverance
Event history analysis is the most prevalent modeling technique used to model event occurrence with longitudinal data (Cox & Oakes, 1984; Menard, 1991; Singer & Willett, 1993, 2003). An alternative is to model longitudinal data within the SEM framework, known as latent variable growth modeling …
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An Event History Analysis on the Effects of Academic Integration Factors on Degree Completion of Low-Income Underrepresented Minority Students
… completion and withdrawal, this study utilized Event History Analysis (EHA). EHA characterized the probability that a student would graduate or drop out during the study period and modeled the probability as a function of targeted covariates using discrete-time logistic regression. Results …
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Statistical modeling of longitudinal survey data with binary outcomes
… the risk factors of the incidence of asthma (event history analysis) and of recurrent asthma episodes (recurrent survival analysis). Missing data analysis was used to study the bias associated with incomplete data. To determine the risk factors of asthma prevalence, the Generalized Estimating …
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Teachers union influence on alternative teacher certification policies: An event history diffusion analysis.
… in the states between 1975 and 2000 using event history analysis and supplementing the event history analysis with an ordinary least squares regression analysis of the strength of the alternative teacher certification policies. In order to test both teachers unions political strength …
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A Decision-Support Framework for Guiding Local Medical Device Innovation: An Innovation Systems perspective
… sector is impeded by systemic barriers that prevent a significant proportion of locally developed technologies from reaching the market. This failure to translate promising innovations into commercial products represents a substantial loss of potential economic and social value. This research …
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Guaranteed Income as a Structural Social Work Response to Homelessness in the United States
… homelessness in the United States, 2) use event history analysis to test the impact of a guaranteed income on housing outcomes for people who are unhoused, and 3) explore the participant-perceived outcomes of guaranteed income, including the role that services play, through qualitative …
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The Blessed and the Damned: Peacemakers, Warlords, and Post Civil War Democracy
… The hypotheses derived are tested through an event history analysis for two different standards of democracy. The results suggest that factors indicative of all four theoretical concepts contribute to the likelihood of democratization after a civil war.
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Political Institutions and Carbon Taxation
… first quantitative studies of ECT adoptions. The event history analysis shows that administrative capacity, operationalized as indirect tax structure, has a positive effect on the implementation of ECT, but only for the first adopters after which this effect declines. Social democracy is a robust …
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Perspectives on Human Resource Practices: Divergences in Time, Theoretical Linkages and Process
… theory linkage and process. The first study, an event history analysis of longitudinal practice data of Canadian companies, finds that HRM practices associated with the strategic agenda are abandoned at a surprising rate over time. The second study, a bibliometric network analysis of HRM and …
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Difusão do Programa de Aquisição de Alimentos da Agricultura Familiar entre os municípios brasileiros
… análise de sobrevivência com a metodologia de Event History Analysis a partir das adoções ao programa nos municípios brasileiros. Buscamos identicar indícios de sua difusão determinanda pela demanda das comunidades beneficiárias, por estratégias político-eleitorais, pelas capacidades …
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State judicial selection methods as public policy: The Missouri plan
… judicial selection, a short but comprehensive history of state judicial selection reform, and an event history analysis of the adoption of merit selection by states for choosing judges to their courts of last.</p> <p>The major finding is that, similar to other institutional arrangements, state …
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The Development of a Conceptual Framework for Hybridity and Sustainability in Social (Micro-) Franchises
… exercises; and (4) empirical grounding through event history analysis (EHA) of selected South African social franchise. The resulting Conceptual Framework for Hybridity and Sustainability in Social (Micro-) Franchises comprises three interlinked layers. The Franchise System Layer focuses on …
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Diffusion of Environmental Protection Single-Use Plastic Bags Ban Policy in California
… diffusion. This study integrates Social Network Analysis (SNA), Geographic Information System (GIS), and Event History Analysis (EHA) to provide a comprehensive understanding of mechanisms of micro-level, city-level environmental policy diffusion in the state of California. It has been …
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The Impact of Financial Aid on Enrollment and Completion at a Large Public University
… to enroll. In the second study, I utilized event history analysis to investigate the impact of aid on enrolled students’ timely degree completion. In the third study, I utilized regression discontinuity to investigate the impact of a loan-reducing financial aid program on accepted students’ …
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The successful diffusion of gender-affirming care bans in the U.S.: how partisanship functions as a mechanism of policy diffusion
… care bans from 2021 to 2024 using textual analysis, measuring the cosine similarities of the 26 GAC bans to evaluate potentiality of copy and paste legislation, before performing a multivariate regression and an event history analysis to assess how this type of anti-trans policy has …
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Urbanization and Demographic Change in Sub-Saharan Africa: Three essays on fertility and child mortality differentials in a rapidly urbanizing context
… urban settlements. In the first chapter, I use event-history analysis to examine whether SSA's long-held urban child survival advantage is diminishing, accounting for differentials in city size and potential bias in survival rates due to migration. I find the overall under-5 survival advantage …
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PATHWAYS TO EARLY PREGNANCY BY RACE/ETHNIC AND CLASS LOCATIONS: ADOLESCENT GIRLS' SELF-CONCEPTS AND AMBIVALENCE TOWARDS PREGNANCY
… class. Statistical methods include discrete-time event history analysis and OLS and logistic regression. Results generally indicate that stronger self-concepts, in particular self-efficacy, mattering, and educational possible selves, are protective against girls' feelings of ambivalence towards …
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