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Logistic Regression for Extremely Rare Events: The Case of School Shootings
Westphal, Christian - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2013
School shootings are often used in public policy debate as a justification for increased regulation, based on qualitative arguments. However, to date, no effort has been made to find valid quantitative evidence for the claims bolstering the regulation recommendations. In defense of this absence...
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Logistic Regression for Extremely Rare Events: The Case of School Shootings
Westphal, Christian - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2013
School shootings are often used in public policy debate as a justification for increased regulation, based on qualitative arguments. However, to date, no effort has been made to find valid quantitative evidence for the claims bolstering the regulation recommendations. In defense of this absence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010897870
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Liberal Coercion? - Prostitution, Human Trafficking and Policy
Cho, Seo-Young - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2013
Liberal prostitution policy aims at improving labour conditions for prostitutes and protecting victims of forced prostitution. Its policy orientation predicts that the policy choice of liberalizing prostitution is positively associated with better protection policy for trafficking victims and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010700937
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Military Spending and Economic Growth: The Case of Iran
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2012
current increasing international sanctions aim to reduce the military capabilities and capacities of the Iranian government …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010551104
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Political Institutions and Government Spending Behavior in Iran
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Dizaji, Sajjad Faraji - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2014
especially important due to recent international sanctions, aiming to change the political behavior of Iran. We use the impulse … education expenditures in short term. If sanctions are successful to change the political behavior of Iran in short run (Dizaji …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010732205
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Aid Withdrawal as Punishment for Defaulting Sovereigns? An Empirical Analysis
Brandt, Jana; Jorra, Markus - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2012
This paper empirically investigates whether donor countries punish sovereign defaults by reducing foreign aid ows. Our ndings reject the hypothesis formulated in the theoretical literature that a default leads to a loss of foreign aid for the defaulting country. Creditor countries directly...
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Effect of Oil Sanctions on the Macroeconomic and Household Welfare in Iran: New Evidence from a CGE Model
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Mohammadikhabbazan, Mohammad; … - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2015
We examine the macroeconomic and household welfare consequences of oil sanctions in Iran. We use social accounting … significantly under oil sanctions. Total imports, exports, private consumption, and GDP fall in response to oil sanctions … sanction crisis. In addition, labor income increases while the capital income falls in response to oil sanctions in Iran. These …
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