Targeting Women's vulnerable employment through social protection: A quasi-experimental regression discontinuity design [PDF]
Heliyon, 2022 In Pakistan, women face economic and social vulnerability, which keeps them underpaid even without social barriers. Government micro and macroeconomic policies are aimed at income generation rather than making women part of the economic mainstream.
Mudassira Sarfraz +4 more
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Incentive effects of cash benefit among low-skilled young adults: Applying a regression discontinuity design. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2020 In 2014, the Danish Government implemented an active labour market reform directed at unemployed young adults under 30 years of age with low educational qualifications.
Helle Bendix Kleif, Jacob Nielsen Arendt
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Conflict violence reduction and pregnancy outcomes: A regression discontinuity design in Colombia. [PDF]
PLoS Medicine, 2021 BackgroundThe relationship between exposure to conflict violence during pregnancy and the risks of miscarriage, stillbirth, and perinatal mortality has not been studied empirically using rigorous methods and appropriate data.
Giancarlo Buitrago, Rodrigo Moreno-Serra
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Test cricketers score quickly during the 'nervous nineties': Evidence from a regression discontinuity design. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2023 The 'nervous nineties' is a well-known cricket colloquialism that implies that batting within reach of 100 runs is mentally demanding. Despite common acceptance of this phenomenon, no study has used a historical test cricket dataset to examine how ...
Leo Roberts +3 more
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Effect of retirement on the body mass index in China: a nationwide study based on the regression discontinuity design [PDF]
BMC Public HealthIntroduction Retirement represents a significant life transition and is associated with individual health outcomes. Previous studies on the health effects of retirement have yielded inconsistent conclusions.
Jiarun Mi +15 more
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Does access to credit reduce SMEs’ tax avoidance? Evidence from a regression discontinuity design [PDF]
Financial Innovation, 2021 This study investigates the effect of targeted reserve requirement ratio cuts (TRRRCs) on tax avoidance among small and micro enterprises (SMEs) with operating revenues below specific cutoffs in China. Using a regression discontinuity design, we causally
Xiaowei Kong +3 more
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The impact of retirement on body mass index in China: An empirical study based on regression discontinuity design. [PDF]
SSM Popul Health, 2023 Yuan B, Liu W, Cui Y.
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Regression discontinuity design for the study of health effects of exposures acting early in life [PDF]
Frontiers in Public HealthRegression discontinuity design (RDD) is a quasi-experimental approach to study the causal effect of an exposure on later outcomes by exploiting the discontinuity in the exposure probability at an assignment variable cut-off.
Maja Popovic +4 more
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The effectiveness of influenza vaccine among elderly Chinese: A regression discontinuity design based on Yinzhou regional health information platform [PDF]
Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2022 In China, a free influenza vaccination policy is being implemented among individuals aged 70 years and over in Zhejiang province during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Guangxu Liu +6 more
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The effect of a post-bronchodilator FEV1/FVC < 0.7 on COPD diagnosis and treatment: a regression discontinuity design [PDF]
Respiratory ResearchBackground Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) guidelines recommend the diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) only in patients with a post-bronchodilator forced expiratory volume in 1 s to forced vital ...
Alexander T. Moffett +2 more
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