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Essays in development economics : democracy and education
Idzalika, Rajius - 2016
Essay 1: We reexamine the effect of economic development on the level of democracy based on the data sets of Acemoglu … variable democracy. Contrary to the results of Acemoglu et al. (2008), some support of causality is found particularly when … explaining heteroscedasticity. We also find democracy is a bimodal variable and approximate the distribution using two separate …
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Are democratic regime and the magnitude of the informal economy robust determinants of human impacts on the environment? : an extreme bounds analysis
Vourvoulia, Michaela; Kampas, Athanasios - In: Economics & politics 36 (2024) 1, pp. 611-629
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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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Quantile Regression Estimates of the Effect of Student Absences on Academic Achievement
Gershenson, Seth - 2018
Credible evidence from a variety of contexts suggests that student absences harm academic achievement. However, extant studies focus entirely on the average effects of student absences, and how those average effects vary by student, school, and absence type. This paper enhances our understanding...
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Robust Bma Analysis with Gini Regressions : An Application to PISA Scores
Dimiski, Anastasia; Kourtellos, Andros; Stengos, Thanasis - 2023
We revisit the relationship between pre-primary education and achievement test scores in the primary school, by employing a Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA) approach combined with Gini regression estimates. The data are taken from the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) for...
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IV estimation with weak instruments : an application to the determinants of school attainment in Peru
García Núñez, Luis J. - In: Economía : revista del Departamento de Economía, … 31 (2008), pp. 127-146
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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
Recent research exploits a variety of natural experiments that create exogenous variation in annual school days to estimate the average effect of formal schooling on students' academic achievement. However, the extant literature's focus on average effects masks potentially important variation in...
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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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