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Does Education Reduce the Risk of Hypertension? Estimating the Biomarker Effect of Compulsory Schooling in England [PDF]
This paper estimates the exogenous effect of schooling on reduced incidence of hypertension. Using the changes in the minimum school-leaving age law in the United Kingdom from age 14 to 15 in 1947, and from age 15 to 16 in 1973, as sources of exogenous ...
Powdthavee, Nattavudh
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A goodness‐of‐fit test for regression models with discrete outcomes
Canadian Journal of Statistics, EarlyView.Abstract Regression models are often used to analyze discrete outcomes, but classical goodness‐of‐fit tests such as those based on the deviance or Pearson's statistic can be misleading or have little power in this context. To address this issue, we propose a new test, inspired by the work of Czado et al.
Lu Yang +2 more
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study explores the relationship between Executive gender diversity (EGD) and the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 9 (SDG 9—Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure) in the European Union. It investigates whether female representation in corporate governance contributes to innovation‐driven sustainability.
Suzan Dsouza +2 more
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Analysis of the Determinants of Technological Innovations Within Agri-Food Companies in Morocco
Folia Oeconomica StetinensiaThe commitment of manufacturers in research and development activities (R&D) and the realization of technological innovations have become effective means of stimulating economic growth.
Dahani Zouhair +3 more
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RELIGIOSITY AND PAROCHIAL SCHOOL CHOICE: CAUSE OR EFFECT? [PDF]
In this paper, we examine the effect of religiosity as measured by attendance at religious services on religious school choice. Particular attention is given to the possibly endogenous relationship between school choice and religiosity.
Danny Cohen-Zada, William Sander
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Categorical data analysis using a skewed Weibull regression model
, 2017 In this paper, we present a Weibull link (skewed) model for categorical response data arising from binomial as well as multinomial model. We show that, for such types of categorical data, the most commonly used models (logit, probit and complementary log-
Caron, Renault +3 more
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Based on stakeholder agency theory, this structured literature review included 89 empirical quantitative studies published between 2013 and the present on the complex relationship between financial auditors and corporate social responsibility (CSR) outcomes. We created a research framework based on DeFond and Zhang's (2014) taxonomy and the bi‐
Patrick Velte
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An Extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition Technique to Logit and Probit Models [PDF]
The Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique is widely used to identify and quantify the separate contributions of group differences in measurable characteristics, such as education, experience, marital status, and geographical differences to racial and ...
Robert W. Fairlie
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Seats at the Table, Shifts in the Actions: Board Gender Diversity and Climate Activism
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As regulatory and stakeholder pressures intensify, firms are increasingly expected to move beyond symbolic sustainability commitments towards corporate climate activism. This concept refers to the active institutionalisation of climate‐focused mechanisms such as external assurance, board oversight and climate‐linked incentives.
Md Tanvir Hamim, Rasim Simsek
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The Impact of Truancy on Educational Attainment: A Bivariate Ordered Probit Estimator with Mixed Effects [PDF]
This paper investigates the relationship between educational attainment and truancy. Using data from the Youth Cohort Study of England and Wales, we estimate the causal impact that truancy has on educational attainment at age 16. Problematic is that both
Anna Conte, Franz Buscha
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