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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"matching estimator"”.
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Land tenure, agri-environmental policy, and conservation practice use in Iowa
… of increasing cover-crop use in Iowa. Using a matching estimator, I conclude that cost-share recipients plant cover crops on an additional 15% of their farmland than they would have in absence of payment.</p> <p>In chapter 3, I study how landowner characteristics affect the use of conservation …
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Essays in corporate finance
… structure. Using a difference-in-differences matching estimator approach, I find that firms whose long-term debt was largely maturing right after the third quarter of 2007 cut their investment-to-capital ratio by 2.5 percentage points more (on a quarterly basis) than otherwise similar firms …
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A study on capital structure and corporate governance
… firms which are not acquired. The findings from matching estimator suggest that performance increase of the acquired firms is significantly greater than the performance of matched stand alone firms, implying that business groups are actually helping their affiliated firms to perform better than …
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Probabilistic Time-to-Event Modeling Approaches for Risk Profiling
… nonparametric model with a survival-function matching estimator that accounts for model calibration. The proposed estimator can be used as a means of estimating and comparing conditional survival distributions while accounting for the predictive uncertainty of probabilistic …
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Essays on finance, learning, and macroeconomics
… of the common impulse response function matching estimator (IRFME) in settings with many parameters. We prove that the common IRFME is consistent and asymptotically normal only when the horizon of IRFs being matched grows slowly enough. We use simulations to evaluate the performance of …
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Essays on Parental Migration and Child Development
… the model solution to construct a nonparametric matching estimator to directly evaluate the impacts of counterfactual migration policies. The proposed estimation strategy is computationally inexpensive because it does not require to estimate the full structural model, as described in the first …
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Methodological advances in benefit transfer and hedonic analysis
… output from traditional hedonic regression and matching estimators and provides guidance on the choice of model with low risk of bias in housing market studies. The economic and societal benefits associated with various environmental conservation programs, such as improvement in water quality, …
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Modern Econometric Methods for the Analysis of Housing Markets
… Oregon. The research design incorporates four matching model approaches that vary based on the temporal bands' width, a narrow and a wider band, and two spatial zoning buffers, a smaller and larger that account for the affected homes' distances. Estimated effects tend to be positive for six …