Such exams are designed to measure a high school student’s readiness for college. Hebrew is a gendered language in which the grammatical rule is to use the masculine form of the language as generic for both females and males54. In fact, when the gender of the recipient is unknown or ...
First, we measure the impact of women's representation in local government and the gender of mayors on performance outcomes across Italian municipalities. The novel feature of this paper is that it measures the performance in the provision of equitable and sustainable well-being, instead of ...
the proxy variables used to measure tax cuts mostly revolve around effective tax rates for enterprises. This paper, however, takes into account corporate tax evasion and R&D manipulation, constructing a dummy variable for
We investigated whether standardized neuropsychological tests and experimental cognitive paradigms measure the same cognitive faculties. Specifically, do neuropsychological tests commonly used to assess attention measure the same construct as attention paradigms used in cognitive psychology and neuroscience? We bui...
One measure very used to test how good your model is is the coefficient of determination or R². This measure is defined by the proportion of the total variability explained by the regression model. This can seem a little bit complicated, but in general, for models that fit the data well...
However, the 2SLS estimator does not measure the value of other useful treatment effect parameters without invoking untenable restrictions. The nonparametric instrumental variable (IV) model has the advantage of being weakly restrictive, so more generally applicable, but it usually delivers set ...
Answer to: For a simple regression model, how do you calculate the predicted value of a dependent variable based off of given values for an...
the relationship between immune system reactivity and perceived facial attractiveness. To measure the reactivity of the immune system, we experimentally activated the immune system by vaccination against both viral (hepatitis A, B) and bacterial (meningococcus) infections, because the two in ...
The authors propose that the index can be used as an alternative variable to study the institutional differences between provinces and municipalities in Chinese markets. In this study, we use the combined index of marketization (MKT) to measure the overall degree of marketization, the regional and...
The perceived goal attainability (PGA) measure was based on a measure used in previous research with students in this age range (e.g. Abdulla & Woods, 2021a). The items on this measure are: “How likely is it that you will [focal goal entered here]?”“How easy will it be for you...