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Tying Your Enemy’s Hands in Close Races: The Politics of Federal Transfers in Brazil [PDF]

This paper uses a quasi-experimental strategy to disclose utterly political reasons behind the allocation of intergovernmental transfers in a federal state. We apply a regression discontinuity design in close elections to identify the effect of political
Brollo, Fernanda, Nannicini, Tommaso
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The deterrent effect of voting against minarets: identity utility and foreigners' location choice [PDF]

, 2015
This paper uses the vote on the Swiss minaret initiative as a natural experiment to identify the causal effect of negative attitudes towards immigrants on foreigners' location choices and thus indirectly on their utility.
Slotwinski, Michaela, Stutzer, Alois
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Terahertz Channel Modeling, Estimation and Localization in RIS‐Assisted Systems

Advanced Electronic Materials, EarlyView.
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces have become a recent intensive research focus. Based on practical applications, channel strategies for RIS‐assisted terahertz wireless communication systems are categorized into three different types: channel modeling, channel estimation, and channel localization.
Hongjing Wang, Weipeng Wang, Xuan Cong, Shiyu Wang, Gao Li, Sen Gong, Lin Huang, Hongxin Zeng, Yaxin Zhang, Ziqiang Yang   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Changing the Scope of Conflict? Voter Registration and George Floyd’s Murder

British Journal of Political Science
Prior work has often studied how focusing events – in particular police killings of unarmed people – affect citizens’ attitudes. Do focusing events also affect citizens’ behaviors – changing the scope of conflict by incorporating prospective voters into ...
Hans J. G. Hassell, John Holbein
doaj   +1 more source

Discontinuous regression surfaces fitting

The Annals of Statistics, 1998
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openaire   +2 more sources

Education Production Function and Class-Size Effects in Japanese Public Schools [PDF]

Education production functions are estimated using student-level achievement data for Japanese students, with emphasis on estimating the causal effect of class size on students' academic performance.
Masakazu Hojo
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Integrating Automated Electrochemistry and High‐Throughput Characterization with Machine Learning to Explore Si─Ge─Sn Thin‐Film Lithium Battery Anodes

Advanced Energy Materials, Volume 15, Issue 11, March 18, 2025.
A closed‐loop, data‐driven approach facilitates the exploration of high‐performance Si─Ge─Sn alloys as promising fast‐charging battery anodes. Autonomous electrochemical experimentation using a scanning droplet cell is combined with real‐time optimization to efficiently navigate composition space.
Alexey Sanin, Jackson K. Flowers, Tobias H. Piotrowiak, Frederic Felsen, Leon Merker, Alfred Ludwig, Dominic Bresser, Helge Sören Stein   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The effect of population-based blood pressure screening on long-term cardiometabolic morbidity and mortality in Germany: A regression discontinuity analysis

, 2022
Sara Pedron, Michael Hanselmann, Jacob Burns, Alexander Rich, Annette Peters, Margit Heier, Lars Schwettmann, Jacob Bor, Till Bärnighausen, Michael Laxy   +9 more
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Quantile Treatment Effects in the Regression Discontinuity Design: Process Results and Gini Coefficient [PDF]

This paper shows nonparametric identification of quantile treatment effects (QTE) in the regression discontinuity design. The distributional impacts of social programs such as welfare, education, training programs and unemployment insurance are of large ...
Frölich, Markus, Melly, Blaise
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Tax Policy and Farm Organization

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) introduced substantial changes to the tax code, affecting farms' organizational incentives. This study examines farms' responses to the TCJA along extensive and intensive margins, focusing on organizational and labor expense adjustments.
Tia M. McDonald, Katherine Lacy
wiley   +1 more source