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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"instrumental variable model"”.
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Three Essays on Compensation
… market outcomes. Specifically, I utilize an instrumental variable model to control for the endogeneity of a husband's insurance coverage to his wife's decision to enter the labor force or sort into part-time jobs. Contrary to previous research in this area, I find that husband's coverage has …
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Theoretical and Applied Essays on the Instrumental Variable Method
… to provide a statistical foundation for the IV models and shed lights on a number of issues related to the IV method. The first chapter shows that the theoretical Instrumental Variable model can be derived by reparameterization of a well-specified statistical model defined on the joint …
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Effects Of E85 Fueling Stations And State Incentives On Private Flex Fuel Vehicle Demand
… and tax exemption. Using fixed-effects linear model, random-effects tobit model, and fixed-effects instrumental variable model with fueling station incentives and government FFV fleet incentives as instruments, the results confirmed that increasing the density of E85 fueling stations leads to …
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Gender and education : a microeconometric analysis of returns to education in Nigeria
… strategy. This involves applying the Mincerian model as a benchmark strategy, the Heckman model to correct for sample selection bias, and the Instrumental Variable model, using distance to the nearest primary and secondary schools as instruments, to accurately estimate returns. Second, by …
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The Determinants of National College Entrance Exam Performance in China - With an Analysis of Private Tutoring
… Three identification strategies including the instrumental variable model, the 3-level hierarchical linear model, and the Heckman two-stage method are applied in order to account respectively for the endogeneity of private tutoring participation, hierarchical data structure, and non-random high …
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Three essays in econometrics
… the issue of local misspecification in instrumental variable models. We show that conventional tests often fail to give accurate inferences when the exogeneity conditions of some instruments are mildly violated. The sizes of those tests can be considerably distorted due to their …
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The effect of violence on educational outcomes
… effect of suicidal shootings on all outcome variables of interest and this suggests that the traumatic impact of homicidal shootings play a key role in explaining our results. The second chapter, ""The Effect of Violent Crime on Educational Attainment,"" focuses on violent crime as an …
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Three Essays on Banking Concentration
… of bank failure using an autoregressive Poisson model which allows for more accurate estimates than linear models. The remaining three equations model respectively, real GDP growth, unemployment, and inflation as functions of the rate of bank failure. Three interesting results are obtained. …