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Assessing the role of women in tourism related sectors in the Caribbean
Pastore, Francesco; Webster, Allan D.; Hope, Kevin - 2020
This study contributes to the rapidly growing literature on women in tourism. It focuses on a group of 13 Caribbean …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012252703
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Do international tourist arrivals change residents' attitudes towards immigration? : a longitudinal study of 28 European countries
Ivlevs, Artjoms; Smith, Ian - 2023
Western Europe, the relationship tends to turn from positive to negative at relatively high levels of tourism. The … instrumental variable analysis suggests that incoming tourism has a positive causal effect on attitudes towards immigration in both … Western and Eastern Europe. Overall, our study reveals an overlooked dimension of the tourism-migration nexus and highlights …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013546037
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What happens when econometrics and psychometrics collide? : an example using the PISA data
Jerrim, John Peter; Lopez-Agudo, Luis Alejandro; … - 2017
International large-scale assessments such as PISA are increasingly being used to benchmark the academic performance of young people across the world. Yet many of the technicalities underpinning these datasets are misunderstood by applied researchers, who sometimes fail to take their complex...
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Causality and econometrics
Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo - 2022
This paper examines the econometric causal model for policy analysis developed by the seminal ideas of Ragnar Frisch and Trygve Haavelmo. We compare the econometric causal model with two popular causal frameworks: Neyman-Holland causal model and the do-calculus. The Neyman-Holland causal model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012886838
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Happy hosts? : international tourist arrivals and residents' subjective well-being in Europe
Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2016
While there has been a growing interest in the relationship between perceived tourism impacts and residents' quality of … pronounced in countries where tourism intensity is relatively high, as well as among people living in rural areas. In addition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517732
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Practical significance, meta-analysis and the credibility of economics
Stanley, Tom D.; Doucouliagos, Chris - 2019
Recently, there has been much discussion about replicability and credibility. By integrating the full research record, increasing statistical power, reducing bias and enhancing credibility, meta-analysis is widely regarded as 'best evidence'. Through Monte Carlo simulation, closely calibrated on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012034162
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The COVID-19 pandemic and school closure: learning loss in mathematics in primary education
Contini, Dalit; Di Tommaso, Maria Laura; Muratori, Caterina - 2021
' performance in mathematics (-0.19 standard deviations). Among children of low-educated parents, the learning loss was larger for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012649540
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Adams and Eves: the gender gap in economics majors
Bertocchi, Graziella; Bonacini, Luca; Murat, Marina - 2021
We investigate the gender gap in Economics among bachelor's and master's graduates in Italy between 2010 and 2019. First we establish that being female exerts a negative impact on the choice to major in Economics: at the bachelor level, only 73 women graduate in Economics for every 100 men, with...
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Tackling the gender gap in mathematics with active learning methodologies
Di Tommaso, Maria Laura; Contini, Dalit; De Rosa, Dalila; … - 2021
solving. We evaluate the causal effect of the intervention on the gender gap in mathematics in Italy with a randomized …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012593007
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Rebuttal of "on nonparametric identification of treatment effects in duration models"
Abbring, Jaap H.; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2016
In their IZA Discussion Paper 10247, Johansson and Lee claim that the main result (Proposition 3) in Abbring and Van den Berg (2003b) does not hold. We show that their claim is incorrect. At a certain point within their line of reasoning, they make a rather basic error while transforming one...
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