Causal effects
The causal effects of the Indian Ocean tsunami and armed conflict on Aceh’s economic development
... In chapter 2, I carry out a quasi-experimental analysis investigating the causal effects of Tsunami flooding on long-term per capita economic output. The existing literature suggests that natural disasters ...
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Marginal versus conditional causal effects
... marginal causal effects which have marginal causal interpretations for the total population even in the presence of ...the causal diagram generating the data) (3, ...marginal causal OR ...
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Lagged Explanatory Variables and the Estimation of Causal Effects
... This paper is motivated by the same concern for credible statistical techniques for the estimation of causal effects that has motivated recent advances in randomized controlled trials (Duflo et al. 2007, ...
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Revisiting the causal effects of exporting on productivity: Does price heterogeneity matter?
... This paper re-examines the causal effects of exporting on productivity taking into account price differences across firms. Empirical studies for a large number of countries establish that exporters are more ...
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Identification of Causal Effects in the Presence of Selection Bias
... Even though selection and confounding biases appear to- gether in most of the non-trivial, practical settings, they have been almost invariably treated independently in the literature. There are non-trivial interactions ...
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Enhancing Identification of Causal Effects by Pruning
... We assume the reader to be familiar with a number of graph theoretic concepts and refer them to works such as (Koller and Friedman, 2009). We use capital letters to denote vertices and the respective variables, and small ...
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Estimates of the causal effects of education on earnings over the lifecycle with cohort effects and endogenous education
... Even this simple departure from the usual separable linear framework comes, of course, at some cost. While the assumption that levels of education of achievement are ordered seems like a natural one, the assumption that ...
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Identification of causal effects using the 1995 earthquake in Japan : studies of education and health
... However, natural-experimental approaches also face statistical issues that must be addressed for casual inference to be reliable. Firstly, as researchers have no control over the assignment of a treatment, the assignment ...
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THE CAUSAL EFFECTS OF EDUCATION ON TECHNOLOGY IMPLEMENTATION – EVIDENCE FROM INDIAN IT INDUSTRY
... Low as described in their study “ ERP innovation implementation model incorporating change management ” to describe the relationship between user attitude and IT project[r] ...
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No Evidence of Causal Effects of Blood Pressure on Cognition in the Population at Large
... find effects of BP on functions like memory, attention, and executive functions (Duschek & Schandry, 2007; Gifford et ...verify effects across cognitive domains (Birns et ...
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Learning Triggers for Heterogeneous Treatment Effects
... different effects. To address the first challenge, we treat the causal effects in different possible populations as hyperpa- rameters that need to be estimated from a validation ...highest ...
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Minimum Intervention Cover of a Causal Graph
... a causal effect from one or more source domains (where ob- servational and all interventional distributions are available) to a target domain (where only the observational distribution is available), provided some ...
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How does happiness relate to economic behaviour?: a review of the literature
... the causal effects of happiness on negative reciprocity, then the probable conclusion is that the well-established negative effect of happiness on negative reciprocity in the short term does not hold in the ...
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Statistical genetics of an annual plant, Impatiens capensis. II. Natural selection.
... Although it is clear that early events in the life of an individual have important causal effects on subsequent characters and final fitness, there is little genetic var[r] ...
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A population-based study of the stratum corneum moisture
... to the cosmetic industry for the development of products that take into account intrinsic and extrinsic variations of the organ, in the explanation of causal effects that act upon the skin, in the full ...
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Experimental Indistinguishability of Causal Structures
... some causal relations, causal effects can always be individuated along different ...Linear causal relations are one such ...underlying causal relations. But when the true causal ...
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The omega-3 fatty acid docosahexaenoic acid favorably modulates the inflammatory pathways and macrophage polarization within aorta of LDLR−/− mice
... Downstream effects analysis is based on the expected causal effects between genes and functions; these expected effects are derived from the literature compiled in the Ingenuity Ò Knowledge ...
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The effects of mediums of instruction on educational and labor market outcomes: Evidence from Malaysia
... This policy change fits a regression discontinuity (RD) design, where using English as medium of instruction is our variable of treatment. English is discontinued as medium of instruction in 1970 onwards, we can exploit ...
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Evaluation and Prioritization of Service Quality Dimensions Using Dematel and Topsis (A Case Study in Iran)
... Random sampling was used to collect the data so considering the allocation of patient admit- ted to each hospital based on proportion of the number of patient and wards, the sample for each hospital were extracted and ...
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Empirical evidence on contract farming in northern Nigeria: Case study of tomato production
... desirable causal effects on transaction costs, productivity, tomato income, total household income and poverty status of the farmers and this implies that the contract farming arrangement is very appealing ...
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