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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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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On the reliability of published findings using the regression discontinuity design in political science [PDF]
Research & Politics, 2023 The regression discontinuity (RD) design offers identification of causal effects under weak assumptions, earning it a position as a standard method in modern political science research.
Drew Stommes +2 more
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Does access to credit reduce SMEs’ tax avoidance? Evidence from a regression discontinuity design
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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AERA Open, 2021 The Tennessee Voluntary Pre-K Program (TN-VPK) is statewide full-day program that gives priority to children from low-income families. A regression-discontinuity design with a statewide probability sample of 155 TN-VPK classrooms and 5,189 children ...
Georgine M. Pion, Mark W. Lipsey
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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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Impact of the 2013 WHO guidelines for screening and treatment of cervical pre-cancerous lesions on women’s screening uptake, by HIV-status, in Eastern and Southern Africa: a regression discontinuity design analysis [PDF]
Reproductive HealthBackground The 2013 World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines for cervical pre-cancer screening recommended screening women aged 30–49 and women living with HIV (WLHIV) starting at age 25.
David Chipanta +7 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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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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Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2021 In the context of intensifying global geopolitical disputes and trade frictions, the relationship between geopolitics and energy trade has attracted extensive attention from scholars.
Yanqiong Liu +3 more
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