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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"pooled time series"”.
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Economic Development, Social Dislocation and Political Turmoil in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Pooled Time-Series Analysis and a Test of Causality
… and political turmoil. This study employs pooled cross-sectional time-series and seemingly unrelated regression analyses, as well as Granger-causality, to examine the hypothesized relationships and causality in 24 Sub-Saharan African countries from 1971 to 1995. The results confirm the …
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Investigating Economic Inequality And Voter Turnout In The Industrialized Democracies
… sample of 21 industrialized democracies using a pooled time series model of elections from 1970 to 1999. The findings demonstrate a connection between inequality and voter turnout wherein increases in inequality lead to reductions in voter turnout. The ramifications for democratic accountability …
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Financial Transfer and Its Impact on the Level of Democracy: A Pooled Cross-Sectional Time Series Model.
This dissertation is a pooled time series, cross-sectional, quantitative study of the impact of international financial transfer on the level of democracy. The study covers 174 developed and developing countries from 1976 through 1994. Through evaluating the democracy and democratization literature …
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A Micro-Level Study of Strikes During Contract Negotiations: Determinants and Effects on Wage Changes
… generated by the model are tested using pooled time series, cross-sectional data on individual contract negotiations by bargaining units in U.S. manufacturing industries to test the empirical model. The study is the first to use micro-level measures of strike duration and …
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Policing the Police: Conflict Theory and Police Violence in a Racialized Society
… crime rates) are held constant. The use of pooled time series cross-sectional data allows for the first longitudinal analysis of police homicides as a social control outcome, which produces mixed findings on racial and economic threats. As in previous research, purely economic conflict …
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Making the cut: An examination of body appreciation and well-being among female powerlifters
… = 9.23 years) self-reported data across five time points over 10 weeks. Athletes were asked to track weight change using self-reported of body weight. Body image was measured using the Body Appreciation Scale-2 along with a single-item indicator of both shape satisfaction and weight …
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Firm level factors that affect returns to real estate investment trusts
… financial data and organizes that data into pooled, time-series cross-sections. Annual returns to capital are determined for certain equity REITS from 1990 to 1999 and are used as the dependent variable in a statistical regression analysis. The analysis includes independent variables drawn …
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Progress or Decline: International Political Economy and Basic Human Rights
… subsequent linkages between them. Ultimately, a pooled time-series cross-section model is developed that moves beyond the traditional concentration on security rights (also know as integrity of the person rights) and focuses on the more controversial subsistence rights (also known as basic human …
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Corporate performance measures and stocks' prices returns: the case of Greece, 1992-2001
… variation in the Athens Stock Exchange (ASE). Pooled time-series, cross sectional data on 163 Greek companies listed in the ASE over the period 1991-2001 have been employed to examine this question. Relative information content tests revealed EPS, followed by EVA®, to be more closely associated …
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Aggregate Electoral Change in United States Presidential Elections, 1828--1992: A Reevaluation of Realignment Theory
Since the time V. O. Key introduced the notion of realignment theory, it has been the dominant conceptual picture for understanding the history of American electoral politics. Recently, however, that dominant picture has come under attack from critics who argue that the theory is predictively …
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Aggregate electoral change in United States presidential elections, 1828--1992: A reevaluation of realignment theory
Since the time V. O. Key introduced the notion of realignment theory, it has been the dominant conceptual picture for understanding the history of American electoral politics. Recently, however, that dominant picture has come under attack from critics who argue that the theory is predictively …
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Self-Regulation in a Simultaneous, Multiple-Goal Environment
The present study sought to extend goal-setting research by examining the nature of individuals' self-regulation with respect to performance goals while pursuing multiple, simultaneous goals. It was proposed that goal revision and effort allocation would be influenced by goal-performance …
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Technology and climatic effects in aggregate production functions
… and two different techniques for handling the pooled time series and cross section data are contained in Chapter 5. Results of considering weather and technology in the production function and a comparison to Griliches' results are provided in Chapter 6. The estimates given in Chapter 6 are …
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Do Globalization and China’s WTO Accession Affect Social Spending in Its Eleven Neighboring Countries? An Empirical Study of the China Shock
… hypothesis versus the efficiency hypothesis, a pooled time-series error-correction model has been adopted in the study to analyze the time dynamics and to correct for serial correction. Following the methodology that previous studies have employed, the research constructs a dummy variable using …