instrumental variable approach
Is Foreign Direct Investment Good for Health in Low and Middle Income Countries? : An Instrumental Variable Approach
... An Instrumental Variable Approach 3 Abstract –This paper investigates the relationship between overall foreign direct investment FDI and 4 population health in low and middle income coun[r] ...
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The Impact of Social Isolation on Subjective Health: An Instrumental Variable Approach
... an instrumental variable approach, in which the instruments are given according to the variables “belonging to an ethnic minority” and “family conflict”, both of which are highly correlated with ...
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Trade Liberalization Policies and Renewable Energy Transition in Low and Middle Income Countries? An Instrumental Variable Approach
... The IV-2SLS estimation technique is applied to analyze structural equations that suffer from the problem of endogeneity. It is basically an alternative to the OLS estimation technique which under endogeneity issues can ...
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Testing for unit roots in autoregressive moving average models: An instrumental variable approach
... In this paper we have proposed a test for a unit root in autoregressive moving average time series models based on an instrumental variable estimator. The main advantage of the instrumen[r] ...
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Does Distance matter for Institutional Delivery in Rural India? An Instrumental Variable Approach
... Under the assumption that distance to the nearest health facility is purely exogenous, the probit estimates in equation (1) provides the causal estimate of access on IFD. However, this assumption is unlikely to be true ...
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The Causal Effects of Aging and Retirement on Social Networks and Loneliness in Europe: An Instrumental Variable Approach
... Heaven et al. (2013) distinguish three areas in which the conceptualization of social relations with regard to health and well-being can be categorized: social networks, social and emotional support, and social roles. ...
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Estimating the effect of early discharge policy on readmission rate An instrumental variable approach
... The first to alert of the endogeneity problem with length of stay and the need to use instrumental variables to ensure consistent estimation did not come till 2000 [8]. However, [8] used time of delivery and the ...
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Do Food Stamps Cause Obesity? A Generalised Bayesian Instrumental Variable Approach in the Presence of Heteroscedasticity
... Accounting for endogeneity in the classical IV model does result in a slightly smaller mag- nitude of the SNAP participation rate variable, roughly a third smaller than in the OLS model. Although the standard ...
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Instrumental Variable Estimates of the Effect of Management Practices on Firm Performance in Korean Firms
... an instrumental variable approach, which requires less costly ...firm-level instrumental variables such as the motivations for organizational reform, empowerment, and IT investment during the ...
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Impact of Home Country Terrorism on Medical Tourism in India January 2020
... This paper examines the relationship between home country terrorism and medical tourism as many such countries are faced with failing health care systems because of the increased threat and incidences of terrorism. The ...
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Russian migrants to Russia: assimilation and local labor market effects
... an instrumental variable approach to account for the endogenous choice of the place of residence I find a negative effect of the inflows of immigrants on the local population ’ s employment (both in ...
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Obesity and employment in Ireland: moving beyond BMI ESRI working paper, no 431, March 2012
... individuals is interesting because whilst the arguments of discrimination based on physical attributes and lower self-esteem clearly apply to young individuals, it is unclear whether these effects – if at all in place – ...
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The Impact of Education Decentralization on Education Output: A Cross Country Study
... the variable it is instrumenting and yet at the same time uncorrelated with the error term in the ...smear variable also captures demand-side issues as there are differences by race in the use of the ...
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Instrumental variable estimation in semi parametric additive hazards models
... A different and very general approach is taken by Martinussen et al. (2017), who develop an IV method for a class of structural cumulative survival models. Their approach does not require any modelling of ...
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Oil prices, profits, and recessions: an inquiry using terrorism as an instrumental variable
... The lower panel of Table 2 takes instead a measure of total profits as its de- pendent variable. Perhaps paradoxically, the short run elasticity of profitability with respect to oil prices in the lower half of ...
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An improved instrumental variable method for industrial robot model identification
... Existing Instrumental Variable (IDIM- IV) estimation provides a robust solution to this estimation problem and the paper introduces an improved IDIM-PIV method that takes account of the additive noise ...
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Topics In Statistical Inference For Treatment Effects
... The goal of the paper is to present a package ivmodel that integrates and unifies R func- tions to conduct a comprehensive instrumental variables analysis when there is one expo- sure/endogenous variable. ...
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The Recognition of Capital Structure Peer Effect of Chinese Listed Companies
... explanatory variable, by constructing the instrumental variable (equity shock), this paper successfully and accurately identifies the peer ...
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Impact of Financial Liberalization and Governance on the Financial Development in Developing Countries
... Financial institutions itself are part of governance which regulate the financial sectors by its rules and regulation and play its role in the strengthening of the financial sector. If institutions will be strong and ...
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Instrumental variable analysis in the context of dichotomous outcome and exposure with a numerical experiment in pharmacoepidemiology
... may result from a measurement error in variables [3], an unobserved variable [4] or an inverse causality between the outcome and some regressors. The general IV method of estimation attempts to remove this bias by ...
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