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On standard-error-decreasing complementarity : why collinearity is not the whole story

Hayo, Bernd - 2017 - This version: 09 January 2017

There is a widespread belief among economists that adding additional variables to a regression model causes higher standard errors. This note shows that, in general, this belief is unfounded and that the impact of adding variables on coefficients’ standard errors is unclear. The concept of...

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Relevance-based importance : a comprehensive measure of variable importance in prediction

Czasonis, Megan; Kritzman, Mark; Turkington, David - 2024 - This version: September 19, 2024

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A test for endogeneity in regressions

Marvell, Thomas B. - 2025

Textbook theory predicts that t-ratios decline towards zero in regressions when there is increasing collinearity … coefficients increase greatly with more collinearity. The purposes of this article are 1) to illustrate this bias and explain why … increasing collinearity. False negatives are possible, but not likely. The test is confirmed with algebraic examples and …

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Exploiting discontinuities in secondary school attendance to evaluate value added

Britton, Jack; Clark, Damon; Lee, Ines - 2023

We use a new empirical strategy to test various measures of school effectiveness in England. Our approach exploits discontinuities in attendance probabilities that occur at unpredictable distance cutoffs used as tiebreakers in admissions processes for oversubscribed schools. We show that raw,...

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Parents know better: primary school choice and student achievement in London

Ovidi, Marco - 2021

Expanding parental choice in education may increase system-wide productivity if parents select schools that form a specifically good match with their children. I investigate the effect of attending a preferred school on student achievement in London primary schools. I exploit as good as random...

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Parents know better : sorting on match effects in primary school

Ovidi, Marco - 2022

I show that parents select schools by considering attributes of the student-school match that improve the learning outcomes beyond average school quality. Using the centralized algorithm for offers to primary school in London, I compare the achievement of students who are as good as randomly...

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Effects of a multi-faceted education program on enrollment, equity, learning, and school management : evidence from India

Delavallade, Clara; Griffith, Alan; Thornton, Rebecca L. - 2019

The Sustainable Development Goals set a triple educational objective: improve access to, quality of, and gender equity in education. This paper documents the effectiveness of a multifaceted educational program, pursuing these three objectives simultaneously, in rural India. Using an experiment...

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Does trade integration imply growth in Latin America? : evidence from a dynamic spatial spillover model

Blasques, F.; Gorgi, P.; Koopman, Siem Jan; Sampi, J. - 2023

To investigate the role of intra-regional trade integration on economic growth in Latin America, we develop a multilevel spatial production network model with time-varying parameters. The theoretical model is established for a multi-country and multi-sectoral economy. The reduced-form...

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Explaining the variation in the value of building energy efficiency certificates : a quantitative meta-analysis

Ankamah-Yeboah, Isaac; Rehdanz, Katrin - 2014

The built environment has been identified as one of the cost effective platforms for reducing energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions. With policies and the know-how in existence, the real estate sector has already adopted measures such as building codes and energy efficiency labels to drive...

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Prior distributions for variance parameters in hierarchical models

Gelman, Andrew - 2004

Various noninformative prior distributions have been suggested for scale parameters in hierarchical models. We construct a new folded-noncentral- t family of conditionally conjugate priors for hierarchical standard deviation parameters, and then consider noninformative and weakly informative...

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