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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"instrumental variable estimation"”.
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Cash-in-Hand, Wives-in-Power: An Exploratory Analysis of Microfinance in Jordan
… on intra-spousal decision-making outcomes. An instrumental variable estimation technique finds a weak link between microfinance and empowerment.
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Understanding the impact of gambling with special reference to Thailand
… gambling frequency and gambling expenditure. The estimations reveal that there is a “supplementation effect” of casino on other gambling types and the effect also appears among the number games. The gambling expenditures on the number games are high in the group of gamblers who have undergraduate …
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Understanding consumer demand in customised pricing environments
Estimation of price sensitivity from real world data is typically complicated 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 …
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Levelling up Problem-Solving Skills through Strategy Video Gaming and Reflection: An Intervention Study with Malaysian 15-16 year old Students
… reflection sessions, on four dependent variables: (1) externally assessed problem-solving skills, (2) self-reported problem-solving skills, (3) metacognition, and (4) mindset. A total of 404 Form 4 pupils (15–16 years old) from nine Malaysian national secondary schools were stratified by …
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Essays on housing, education, and inequality
… National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data and instrumental variable estimation. I find that attendance at selective public universities increases the probability of graduation, controlling for grades and family background. This dissertation contributes to the literature by identifying the role …
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An Evaluation of Hospital Capital Investment after the Balanced Budget Act
… analyzed by first difference transformation and instrumental variable estimation to eliminate unmeasured, time-invariant hospital characteristics, and to address the endogeneity and possible feedback effects of regressors in the model.The results of the study suggest that changes in hospital …
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Analysis of the United States Hop Market
… to 2012, and to identify important exogenous variables that explain the supply and demand of hops using the two-stage least squares (2SLS) method of analysis. Using the 2SLS method, the demand model yielded that the US beer production variable is significant at the 10 percent level. For every …
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Essays in Islamic Banking, Institutional Quality, and Financial Development Outcomes
… rely on large-n cross-country datasets and instrumental variable (IV) estimation strategies to address endogeneity concerns and arrive at more credible causal inferences. The first essay studies the Islamic banking–institutional quality–financial inclusion linkages. The analysis exploits …
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ESSAYS ON CONSEQUENCES AND RESPONSES TO ECONOMIC SHOCKS
… legislated minimum wage as the instrument. Our instrumental variable estimation shows that child labor negatively affects mathematics skills and pulmonary function, but not cognitive skills and educational attainment. We find heterogeneities in type of work. Those who work outside of family …
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Economic and health implications of tobacco and alcohol use in South Africa: a household expenditure analysis
… of household expenditures is estimated using instrumental variables within a system-of-equations. Confidence intervals for the point estimates are then estimated using a method proposed by Nevo & Rosen (2012). Results indicate that expenditures on education, transport, housing, and household …
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The gendered effects of tariff liberalisation on local labour markets in post-apartheid South Africa
… on manufacturing employment, a first-difference instrumental variable estimation strategy is employed. First, the results indicate that tariff reductions had no effect on manufacturing wages, with its impact falling entirely on employment. Municipalities that were more exposed to tariff …
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Health Insurance, Pensions and Wages
… taxes. Fixed effects, first differencing and instrumental variable estimation are used to address the potential ability bias and endogeneity problems in wage models with EHI as an independent variable. While both fixed effects and first-differencing estimation provide evidence of a positive …
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ESSAYS ON THE ECONOMICS OF IMMIGRATION AND INTERGENERATIONAL MOBILITY
… universities and colleges. Using a shift-share instrumental variable estimation approach and, in particular, quasi-experimental variation drawn from fluctuations in the outflows of students across countries of origin to other English-speaking destinations, I show that international students lead …
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Factors Affecting the Thai Natural Rubber Market Equilibrium: Demand and Supply Response Analysis Using Two-Stage Least Squares Approach
… time series annual data from 1977-2012. The instrumental variables estimation by two-stage least squares was used to solve and analyze the demand and supply of rubber. Results were statistically significant at 0.01 level, which showed that the U.S. GDP per capita, the estimated price, …