Journal of Epidemiology, 2020 Background: Computed tomography (CT) is commonly used in children with mild head injuries. People in Japan are concerned about radiation exposure and radiation-induced cancer because of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident on March 11, 2011.
Shotaro Aso +2 more
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Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2021 OBJECTIVES: This study investigated the effects of a national early retirement reform, which was implemented in 2006 and penalized early retirement, on paid employment and different exit pathways and examined whether these effects differ by gender ...
Karen M Oude Hengel +5 more
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Estimating Incumbency Effects Using Regression Discontinuity Design
Research & Politics, 2018 In recent years, research on the incumbency effect using a regression discontinuity design has flourished. Although the regression discontinuity design has allowed scholars to examine the incumbency effect in various electoral settings, previous studies ...
B. K. Song
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EMERGING EQUITY MARKET REACTION TO PANDEMIC PREVENTION POLICY: EVIDENCE FROM REGRESSION DISCONTINUITY DESIGN [PDF]
Zbornik radova Ekonomskog fakulteta u Rijeci : časopis za ekonomsku teoriju i praksu, 2022 The purpose of this study is both to release the effects of the current pandemic on emerging equity markets and to examine the efficacy of the prevention policy to lessen the plausible negative effects.
Bora Aktan
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Does election of an additional female councilor increase women's candidacy in the future? [PDF]
The European Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018 I study the changes in female political participation that occur when an additional female candidate is elected to the local council. To address the endogeneity related to non-random election outcomes I employ a Regression Discontinuity Design.
Jekaterina Kuliomina
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The Paradox of State-Funded Higher Education: Does the Winner Still Take It All?
Education Sciences, 2021 Contrary to the overall tendency to increase student participation in the financing of higher education, Estonia abolished student tuition fees in 2013.
Kaire Põder, Triin Lauri
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Diabetes diagnosis based on glucose control levels and time until diagnosis: a regression discontinuity approach to assess the effect on direct healthcare costs. [PDF]
Health Econ RevMora T, Rodríguez-Sánchez B.
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The impact of vocational rehabilitation on employment outcomes: A regression discontinuity approach
Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2022 OBJECTIVES: Since 2015, Finnish disability pension applicants who are rejected or receive a short-term temporary pension have, under certain conditions, also received a preliminary decision for vocational rehabilitation (VR).
Mikko Laaksonen +2 more
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Local Composite Quantile Regression for Regression Discontinuity [PDF]
Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2021 We introduce the local composite quantile regression (LCQR) to causal inference in regression discontinuity (RD) designs. Kai et al. (2010) study the efficiency property of LCQR, while we show that its nice boundary performance translates to accurate estimation of treatment effects in RD under a variety of data generating processes.
Huang, Xiao, Zhan, Zhaoguo
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Optimal Bandwidth Selection for the Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Estimator [PDF]
, 2015 A new bandwidth selection method for the fuzzy regression discontinuity estimator is proposed. The method chooses two bandwidths simultaneously, one for each side of the cut-off point by using a criterion based on the estimated asymptotic mean square ...
Arai, Yoichi, Ichimura, Hidehiko
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