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Estimating the Effect of Adolescent Fertility on Educational Attainment in Cape Town Using a Propensity Score Weighted Regression
Ranchhod, Vimal; Lam, David A.; Leibbrandt, Murray; … - 2011
We estimate the effect of a teenage birth on the educational attainment of young mothers in Cape Town, South Africa. Longitudinal and retrospective data on youth from the CAPS dataset are used. We control for a number of early life and pre-fertility characteristics. We also re-weight our data...
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The role of testing noise in the estimation of achievement-based peer effects
Zhang, Hongliang - In: Economics of education review 54 (2016), pp. 113-123
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When to use matching and weighting or regression in instrumental variable estimation? : evidence from college proximity and returns to college
Tübbicke, Stefan - In: Empirical economics : a quarterly journal of the … 65 (2023) 6, pp. 2979-2999
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Modelling factors of Student test statistics dispersion in a multiple linear regression
Pavelescu, Florin-Marius - In: Revista română de economie 41 (2015) 2, pp. 25-41
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Multivariate student versus multivariate Gaussian regression models with application to finance
Thi Huong An Nguyen; Ruiz-Gazen, Anne; Thomas-Agnan, … - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 12 (2019) 1/28, pp. 1-21
To model multivariate, possibly heavy-tailed data, we compare the multivariate normal model (N) with two versions of the multivariate Student model: the independent multivariate Student (IT) and the uncorrelated multivariate Student (UT). After recalling some facts about these distributions and...
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Conceptual understanding of linear regression among economics students at the university center of Tipaza, Algeria
Idris, Djouahra - In: Croatian review of economic, business and social … 8 (2022) 2, pp. 66-83
this study is to evaluate students' difficulties resulting from the lack of knowledge of regression analysis concepts among … economics students enrolled in the Master's cycle at the institute of economics at the university center of Tipaza (Algeria). In … order to analyze students' answers, a typical correction was prepared based on professors' answers to this questionnaire …
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What differences a day can make : quantile regression estimates of the distribution of daily learning gains
Hayes, Michael S.; Gershenson, Seth - 2015
estimate the average effect of formal schooling on students' academic achievement. However, the extant literature's focus on … number of school days between kindergarten students' fall and spring tests in the nationally representative Early Childhood … Longitudinal Study – Kindergarten Cohort (ECLS-K). The marginal effect of a typical 250-day school-year on kindergarten students …
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Estimating and testing a quantile regression model with interactive effects
Harding, Matthew; Lamarche, Carlos - 2012
-performing students; (ii) while smaller classes are beneficial for low performers, larger classes are beneficial for high performers; (iii …
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The Great Gatsby Curve in education with a kink
Kourtellos, Andros - In: Economics letters 208 (2021), pp. 1-4
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What differences a day can make : quantile regression estimates of the distribution of daily learning gains
Hayes, Michael S.; Gershenson, Seth - In: Economics letters 141 (2016), pp. 48-51
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