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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"instrumental variables approach"”.
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Two Essays on Evaluation Challenges in Integrated Pest Management: An Evaluation Design for the Onion ipmPIPE and Identifying Women's Crops and Agricultural Technologies
… website. The Bayesian decision theoretic approach may not accurately model onion growers' pest management decisions throughout the season. Randomization of the treatment is possible, but an incomplete grower list proved to be a problem. The analysis shows that an instrumental variables …
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Strategic Shareholders and IPO Disclosure: Evidence from Corporate Venture Capital
… robust to using propensity score matching and an instrumental variables approach. Furthermore, the disclosure effect is more pronounced for CVCs in the same industry as the portfolio firm, CVCs with a formal strategic partnership with the portfolio firm, and CVCs with fewer portfolio firms. These …
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Information as an Environmental Policy Instrument: Examining Household Response to Arsenic in Tube-Well Water in Araihazar, Bangladesh
… a randomized field experiment. In chapter 4, an instrumental variables approach is used to understand whether a household's decision to switch sources is affected by its proximate neighbors' decisions to switch sources. To answer these questions, primary data was collected by the researchers …
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Essays On The Intersection Of Healthcare Operations And Economics
… who are placed on service are analyzed. The instrumental variables approach reveals that there is a significant causal impact of off-service placement on patients who are placed on service. The essay, "Should We Worry About Moral Hazard? Estimation of the Slutsky Equation Using Indemnity …
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Essays on local labor markets
… retail employment at the county level. Using an instrumental-variables approach to correct for both measurement error in entry dates and possible endogeneity of the timing of entry, I find that Wal-Mart entry increases retail employment by 100 jobs in the year of entry. Half of this gain …
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Occupational skill mismatch and the consequences to employment outcomes
… Using a probit model specification and an instrumental variables approach, this research finds that poorly-matched workers are 20 percent less likely to be retained relative to well-matched workers. Effects of mismatch are most pronounced among high-aptitude workers. The difference in …
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Three essays on intercollegiate athletics and the financial relationship with institutions of higher education
… In Essay 2, panel regressions and an instrumental variables approach are used with data from the USA Today athletics finance database to analyze the effects of winning on institutional subsidies to athletics. Basketball wins are found to have a positive effect on the amount of subsidy …
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Essays in pharmaceutical economics
… among generic entrants. Finally, I employ an instrumental variables approach to estimate the effect of marginal generic entry on price and generic diffusion within the market.
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Test score impacts of Cesarean sections
… to mitigate omitted variable bias, I use the approach of Oster (2017) and incorporate movements in the estimated treatment effects and in the R² to define an identified set that is robust to selection on unobservables. With this, I estimate effects of between -0.2 and -1.3 points of C-sections …
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Essays on health economics : trans fat policies, commuting, physical activity, and body mass index in the US
… Results for nonobese males are robust to an instrumental variables approach (IV), however the instrument is not predictive of commuting behavior among obese males or among women, suggesting that determinants of commuting may be different for groups with differing health status.
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Essays on food assistance program participation and demand for food
… address similar topics, they differ in empirical approach. The first paper uses a two-stage instrumental variables approach and the second paper uses a Bayesian approach in order to handle the endogeneity of WIC program participation. Findings from these two papers indicate that based on the …
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Heterogeneous Technological Changes and Their Impacts on Income Inequality and Productivity Growth
… I address the issue of simultaneity using an instrumental variables approach suggested by the model. I also calibrate the model and conduct some quantitative exercises. Finally, I develop an endogenous growth framework featuring minimum skill requirements, two independent process innovations, …
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Three essays in corporate finance
… shocks to analyst coverage, as well as an instrumental variables approach. Both identification strategies suggest that analyst coverage has a negative causal effect on CSR. My findings are consistent with the view that spending on CSR is a manifestation of agency problem, and that financial …
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Essays In Health Economics
… 1990's and applying the simulated eligibility instrumental variables approach, I show that Medicaid eligibility during childhood increases homeownership rate, mortgage ownership rate, and financial market participation rate later in life. This finding is robust to only use of variation provided …
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Trade, migration, poverty and inequality: A global perspective
… trade and migration. The study uses a novel instrumental variables strategy, utilising World Trade Organisation (WTO) affiliation and average tariff rates as instruments within a gravity model framework, to overcome endogeneity in the regression model. The results suggest that trade is a …
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Three essays on environmental economics: externalities and policy implications
… both applied theoretical models and empirical approaches. Externalities, especially issues that are unanticipated or have been largely overlooked, are the primary focuses throughout the whole thesis. The first chapter, based on joint work with Daniel Karney, investigates the general equilibrium …
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Equity in education: Assessing policy efforts in us schools
… In Paper 1, I compare several different approaches (e.g., English as a Second Language, bilingual, dual language) to helping English Learners (ELs) achieve proficiency in English and access core curriculum content, as demonstrated by achievement on reading and mathematics standardized …
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The demand, selection, and health impacts of household energy in Pakistan
… solid fuel use on health outcomes. Utilizing an instrumental variables approach, it was concluded that solid fuel combustion causes increases in child mortality and decreases in male and female life expectancy. The second study investigated the factors associated with the selection of solid and …
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Estimating demand for environmental goods and services, now and later
… I address price endogeneity concerns using an instrumental variables approach. For the second contribution (2), I aggregate the trip-level data to market-level and calculate daily market shares. This allows me to recover substitution patterns that provide insight into how skiers move across …
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Essays on Education Policy
… Center to employ a variation of a two sample instrumental variables approach in which I instrument for actual eighth grade absences with simulated measures of eight grade absences. I find consistent evidence that teacher reports of the attendance of poor students are negatively biased and that …
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