Targeting Women's vulnerable employment through social protection: A quasi-experimental regression discontinuity design
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DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e08964
Abstract: 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.… read more here.
Keywords: vulnerable employment; social protection; women vulnerable; regression discontinuity ... See more keywords
The regression discontinuity design showed to be a valid alternative to a randomized controlled trial for estimating treatment effects.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2016.11.008
Abstract: OBJECTIVES To compare treatment effect estimates obtained from a regression discontinuity (RD) design with results from an actual randomized controlled trial (RCT). STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING Data from an RCT (EVIDENT), which studied the effect… read more here.
Keywords: randomized controlled; treatment; regression discontinuity; effect ... See more keywords
Your retirement and my health behavior: Evidence on retirement externalities from a fuzzy regression discontinuity design.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2017.10.005
Abstract: This paper presents evidence on intra-household retirement externalities by assessing the causal effect of spousal retirement on various health behaviors and health status across 19 European countries. We identify partner's and own retirement effects by… read more here.
Keywords: retirement; retirement externalities; regression discontinuity; fuzzy regression ... See more keywords
Statistical Power for the Comparative Regression Discontinuity Design With a Nonequivalent Comparison Group
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DOI: 10.1037/met0000118
Abstract: In the “sharp” regression discontinuity design (RD), all units scoring on one side of a designated score on an assignment variable receive treatment, whereas those scoring on the other side become controls. Thus the continuous… read more here.
Keywords: discontinuity design; regression discontinuity; comparison; design ... See more keywords
Estimates of the returns to schooling in Taiwan: evidence from a regression discontinuity design
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2019.1638493
Abstract: ABSTRACT Using micro-data from the Manpower Utilization Survey 1995–2015 of Taiwan, this paper exploits exogenous variation in years of schooling caused by the 9-year compulsory education reform to estimate the economic returns to schooling. The… read more here.
Keywords: discontinuity design; returns schooling; regression discontinuity;
[Evaluating the real-world vaccine effectiveness using a regression discontinuity design].
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DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn112338-20210706-00524
Abstract: Estimating the actual real-world effectiveness of the vaccine is an essential part of the post-marketing evaluation. This regression discontinuity design (RDD) using observational data is designed to quantify the effect of an intervention when eligibility… read more here.
Keywords: effectiveness; regression discontinuity; real world; discontinuity design ... See more keywords