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Showing 1 to 20 of 92 for “"panel study"”.
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Impact of United States income tax on education: A panel study
The focus of my dissertation is to examine the impact of income taxes on whether or not to attend college. This is an interesting issue because it is known that current investment in education or other forms of human capital will most certainly enhance the quality or productive capacity of an …
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Heterogeneous Effects of Commodity Price Shocks on Inflation Rates. Evidence from a Panel Study.
… profiles? I address this question through a panel study of 142 countries using Export and Import Indexes aimed at differentiating the retail pass-through and fiscal balance channel of transmission of Commodity Price shocks on inflation. The results show that an increase in the Export Index …
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Youth employment in the Cape Town area: Insights from the Cape Area Panel Study
… from the 2002 and 2004 waves of the Cape Area Panel Study, cross-sectional and panel probit regressions have been employed to investigate the role of individual, household and schooling characteristics in the probability of employment. The results suggest that although household income and the …
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Preventable deaths presenting to a level 1 trauma centre in South Africa : a panel study
The aim of our study was to identify areas for quality improvement in regards to preventable trauma deaths at Groote Schuur Hospital Trauma Centre (GSHTC).
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Tax evasion and the demand for currency in developing countries: A panel study of African countries
Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T14:51:17Z Item is restricted indefinitely.
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The demand for savings services among the urban poor - evidence from the Khayelitsha panel study (2000-2004)
In signing its charter in 2002, the South African financial sector voluntarily committed itself to providing first order retail financial service access to the un-banked by 2008. Although much of the media attention and academic literature has been focused towards the challenge of providing basic …
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THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN RECEIVING A MENTAL HEALTH DIAGNOSIS AND FIRST TERM ATTRITION (FTA) IN U.S. NAVY SAILORS: A 10-YEAR PANEL STUDY
First-term attrition (FTA)—separation before completing an initial service obligation—imposes readiness and training costs on the U.S. Navy. This thesis tests whether documented mental health diagnoses are associated with FTA among first-term sailors. Using the Person-Event Data Environment …
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Exploring the degree of stability in young adults' living arrangements in the Cape Area Panel Study (CAPS) between 2002 and 2005 and how this relates to their well-being
… the well-being of young adults. The Cape Area Panel Study (CAPS) of young adults between the ages of 14 to 22 years in 2002, and 17 to 25 years in 2005, is employed to investigate these living arrangement and income dynamic changes in 2002 and 2005. In general, it is found that most young …
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Labour market outcomes and the impacts of social networks: evidence from the Cape Town Metropolitan Area
… area. By using the fourth wave of the Cape Area Panel Study (CAPS) this paper empirically confirms previously examined results of a network effect for employment prospects while confirming that no network effect is present for labour discouragement.
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Gender parity and the 'usual suspects' in South African education
… example, looking specifically at the Cape Area Panel Study, to find whether these gender inequality factors are present and if so, what effect they are having on educational outcomes.
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The social determinants of health: an empirical analysis of ethnic and spatial inequalities in health.
… Society, a nationally representative panel study, which provides detailed information about the social and economic situations of people living in the UK.
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Educational inputs and student outcomes in South Africa
… Berg and others, using data from the Cape Area Panel study.
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Three Papers on the Black-White Mobility Gap in the United States
… Earnings Elasticities by Race Utilizing the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, I assess the effect of sample selection bias on estimates of intergenerational earnings elasticities for white and black father-son pairs, regressing log child earnings on log parent earnings. Estimating four …
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Exploring atitudes towards immigrants in Cape Town, South Africa
… identity, and the process of ‘othering’. This study uses data from the fifth wave of the Cape Area Panel Study, with a representative sample of young adults (n=2915), in order to explore attitudes towards immigrants in Cape Town. Using a series of vignettes, that is, descriptions of situations …
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How does the process of educational attainment differ between Africans and Coloureds in the Western Cape?
… individual and household data from the Cape Area Panel Study (CAPS), matriculation and enrolment (conditional on matriculation) are modeled for Africans and Coloureds separately.
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Financial motivations and small business survival : the effects of gender and race.
… racial groups using data from the Second Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics (PSED II). The results varied. Stronger motivations for financial gain do appear to have a negative effect on business survival rate for black women and Hispanic men. However, for black men, non-black women …
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Foster children's school attainment: evidence from metropolitan Cape Town
… of foster children using data from the Cape Area Panel Study (CAPS), collected in the Metropole of Cape Town. Based on cross-sectional data, I show that foster children have a lower grade attainment level than children who live with both their parents, even when they reside in the same household. …
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Does individual ability play a role in educational attainment over and above household, school and other socio-economic circumstances?
This study looks at the impact of latent individual ability on educational attainment, specifically the decision to acquire tertiary education. The analysis aims to determine whether ability is significant over and above socio-economic status in determining educational attainment. The Cape Area …
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Cyclical dynamics in idiosyncratic consumption risk
… using consumption data from the Nielsen Consumer Panel and the Panel Study of Dynamic Income. With GMM estimates and supplemental graphical analysis, I show that the idiosyncratic risk in consumption is i) highly persistent, with an autocorrelation coefficient near unity ii) strongly …
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