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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"quasi-experimental methods"”.
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Evaluating South African policies for linkage to and retention in HIV care using quasi-experimental methods
South Africa has the largest HIV-infected population in the world, with 2015 estimates of 7 million people living with HIV and 180,000 AIDS-related deaths. The South African government began scale-up of a public-sector HIV care and treatment program in 2004, and by the end of 2015, 3.4 million …
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Estimating provisional causal treatment effects on reoffending for binary and multiple treatments using quasi-experimental methods for people in prison with an alcohol use disorder in England
… people in prison receiving treatment for an AUD. Quasi experimental methods that derive a treatment effect will be assessed for a single (or binary) treatment system and where multiple treatments exist. The validity of using these methods in criminal justice settings will also be assessed. Method: …
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Essays on hospital-level economic outcomes : evidence from psychedelic decriminalization and health system data breaches.
… (2019-2022) using difference-in-differences methods, finding a 25 percent rise—about 33 extra cases per month—in psychosis-related emergency visits. Essay 2 links those policies to inpatient trajectories: proportional-hazards models show hallucinogen exposure raises subsequent psychosis risk …
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Evaluating subsidy programmes for ecological conservation: insights from quasi-experimental and experimental evidence
… groups in a comprehensive two-by-two factorial experimental design, aimed at determining the efficacy of these mechanisms.
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Empirical Essays in Public Economics
This dissertation exploits quasi-experimental methods and rich microdata to identify causal effects of public interventions that speak directly to the goals outlined in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Specifically, the first chapter analyzes the effect of public child care provision on …
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Where trees grow, assets grow: applying spatial matching to evaluate agroforestry’s household welfare impacts in Kenya
… and is therefore also not always amenable to quasi-experimental methods using only secondary data analysis. This thesis demonstrates a method for using spatial matching methodology to select a sampling frame for survey data collection in order to measure the long-term household welfare impacts …
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Essays on Political Economy
… 15% of local elections in Colombia. By employing quasi-experimental methods, I illustrate how the (future) allocation of transfers from central to local governments creates perverse incentives for political candidates to redistribute vote-buying.
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Racial integration : a social intervention on a South African university campus
… emotions. Both naturalistic observational methods and quasi-experimental methods were used to measure changes in intergroup attitudes and behaviors as a function of the interventions. Students' seating patterns in the dining hall were mapped before, during, and after the intervention. The …
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Rising damp evaluation and treatment : a quasi-experimental case study
… a novel methodology, blending case study and quasi-experimental methods, was chosen to assess, in a field setting, the component parts of the contemporary method of remedial damp proof course treatment, techniques of moisture measurement, evaporation, and environmental moisture.The study found …
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Essays on Healthcare Coordination
… this hypothesis in a field study of CCTs using quasi-experimental methods. The second essay focuses on the recent emergence of ACOs as an organizational form that can promote care coordination across healthcare organizations. Drawing on the contingency theory of organization, we propose and test …
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Prevention, Diversion, and Reentry: Effects of School and Juvenile Justice Policy Reforms
… system and minimize such consequences. Using quasi-experimental methods, I examine three policy interventions designed to address youth needs at different stages: prevention, diversion, and reentry. First, since food insecurity can cause chronic stress and misbehavior in school, expanding …
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Three Essays on Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa: Multidimensional Poverty Change in Zimbabwe; Long-Term Impact of Cash Transfers in Niger; and Targeting Efficiency of Social Protection Programs in Cameroon
… Niger 18 months after its termination. Based on quasi-experimental methods, results indicate that local saving/credit systems (tontines) participation and livestock ownership significantly increased among project participants. There is also evidence of improvement in private assets, …
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SOCIAL MEDIA IN POST-SOVIET SPACE: SERVING TO AUTOCRACY OR SIMULATING DISSENT?
… automated text analysis, time-series modelling, quasi-experimental methods and regression analysis. The empirical part of my studies concentrates on countries of the post-soviet region: Belarus, Lithuania, Russia and Ukraine. I argue that autocratic powers tend to be more efficient in the …
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EXAMINING THE IMPACT OF THE MARYLAND GLOBAL BUDGET MODEL ON SEVERE MATERNAL MORBIDITY DISPARITIES
… Applying a health equity lens, this innovative quasi-experimental methods study seeks to examine the impact of the Maryland Global Budget Model (GBM) on the SMM incidence of childbearing women in Maryland from 2011-2019. Due to increased care coordination and the redistributive effects of a …
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Roads, Rights, and Rewards: Three Program Evaluations in Environmental and Resource Economics
… the second chapter, I apply similar quasi-experimental methods to a very different question: does rights-based fisheries management increase fish prices? Rights-based management, specifically “catch shares,” is known to extend fishing seasons by slowing the destructive “race to fish.” …
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Forest conservation through voluntary carbon offsetting interventions
… some of the challenges involved in using quasi- experimental methods to evaluate forest-based interventions. Chapter 2 presents one of the first global assessments of the impact of REDD+ in reducing deforestation using a standard quasi-experimental approach. I found reductions in forest …
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Three Essays on Executive Incentive Pay and Causal Inference in Corporate Finance
… I first review three applications of the quasi-experimental methods to study causal relations in corporate finance and argue that ensuring the validity of the quasi-experimental design ironically re- quires a good amount of knowledge about the underlying causal mechanisms which is so far …
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Compared to What? The Effectiveness of Synthetic Control Methods for Causal Inference in Educational Assessment
<p>Synthetic control methods are an innovative matching technique first introduced within the economics and political science literature that have begun to find application in educational research as well. Synthetic controls create an aggregate-level, time-series comparison for a single treated …
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Essays on child labour and schooling in Ghana
… data, the paper employs three different quasi-experimental methods (propensity score matching, difference-in-difference, and difference-in-difference combined with matching). Overall, the results show that the LEAP programme had no effect on school enrolment and test scores, but it …
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