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Political Turnover Negatively Affects the Quality of Public Services: A Replication

Gallegos, Sebastian - 2023

The politically motivated replacement in local governments is a pervasive fact in our modern democracies. Whether it has causal effects on the quality of public services, such as education, is a critical question and yet understudied. This paper uses a regression discontinuity design (RDD) for...

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Replicating: "Playing Politics with Environmental Protection: The Political Economy of Designating Protected Areas"

Villalobos, Laura; Caviglia-Harris, Jill; Jayalath, Tharaka - 2023

differences. Moreover, robustness replications find consistent results for one out the two treatments. Finally, we find no …

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The Robustness of Preferences during a Crisis: The Case of Covid-19

Bokern, Paul; Linde, Jona; Riedl, Arno; Werner, Peter - 2023

We investigate how preferences have been affected by exposure to the COVID-19 crisis. Our main contributions are: first, our participant pool consists of a large general population sample; second, we elicited a wide range of preferences (risk, time, ambiguity, and social preferences) using...

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The Long-Term Effects of Measles Vaccination on Earnings and Employment. A Replication Study of Atwood (American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2022)

Barschkett, Mara; Huebener, Mathias; Leibing, Andreas; … - In: Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics (JCRE) 2 (2023) 2023-4, pp. 1-15

generalized difference-in-differences approach. We reproduce the results of thispaper and perform a battery of robustness checks …

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Quantitative Bewertungssysteme im Kontext nachhaltiger Entwicklung regionaler Räume

Faßmann, Joachim - In: Tasks of the century ("Jahrhundertaufgaben"): Blocking …, (pp. 107-115). 2023

Aufgrund des Strukturwandels, der viele Lebensbereiche betrifft, drängt sich der Vergleich in der individuellen Betrachtung der Wirkung von Projekten auf. Dazu wird zur Schaffung einer Vergleichbarkeit ein quantitativer Maßstab eingesetzt, um Nachhaltigkeitsaspekte zu evaluieren und somit...

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A robust method for microforecasting and estimation of random effects

Giacomini, Raffaella; Lee, Sokbae; Sarpietro, Silvia - 2023

We propose a method for forecasting individual outcomes and estimating random effects in linear panel data models and value-added models when the panel has a short time dimension. The method is robust, trivial to implement and requires minimal assumptions. The idea is to take a weighted average...

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Economic importance and structural robustness of the international pesticide trade networks

Li, Jian-An; Wang, Li; Xie, Wen-Jie; Zhou, Wei-Xing - In: Journal of management science and engineering 8 (2023) 4, pp. 512-528

-closeness; out-degree, hub, and out-closeness). We further investigated the structural robustness of international pesticide trade … contrast, removing nodes with a clustering coefficient in ascending and descending order yielded similar robustness curves …. Moreover, the structural robustness related to large component size evolved over time and exhibited an inverse U-shaped pattern. …

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Optimization of drilling processes of aluminium metal matrix composites using the robust ordinal priority approach

Chakraborty, Santonab; Raut, Rakesh Dulichand; Ali, … - In: Decision analytics journal 7 (2023), pp. 1-8

rpm, feed rate = 0.2 mm/rev, Al2219 work material and carbide drill bit. The robustness and solution accuracy of OPA while …

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Identification in search models with social information

Lomys, Niccolò; Tarantino, Emanuele - 2023

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Portfolio optimization using cellwise robust association measures and clustering methods with application to highly volatile markets

Menvouta, Emmanuel Jordy; Serneels, Sven; Verdonck, Tim - In: The Journal of finance and data science : JFDS 9 (2023), pp. 1-13

downside risk measures, hierarchical clustering and cellwise robustness. Using cellwise robust association measures, the … based approaches. Cellwise outlier robustness makes the minCluster method particularly suitable for stable optimization of …

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