ceiling evidence from a repeated randomized experiment

... of Australia; 2002 ABS: Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) National Health Survey 2004– 05: Summary of Results (Catalogue No 4364.0) Canberra: Commonwealth of Australia; 2006 ABS: Australian ... Understanding Statistics 2002, 1:223-31 ABS: Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Population by Age and Sex Australian States and Territories (Catalogue No 3201.0) Canberra: Commonwealth of Australia; ... Lives saved Medical(B – A) Cure(B – A) AgeGrp_(B – A) † AgeGrp1(B – A) † AgeGrp2(B – A) † AgeGrp4(B – A) † Evidence( B – A) Fault(B – A) $Private(B – A) ^ Effect(B – A) ‡ $Cost(B – A) ^ HlthCard*Q SIEFA_Econ*Q/1000...

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... Rural Banks Matter? Evidence from the Indian Social Banking Experiment. ” American Economic Review 95 (3): 780-795 [12] Chaia, Alberto, Aparna Dalal, Tony Goland, Maria Jose Gonzalez, Jonathan ... (Chaia et al., 2009; Kendall et al., 2010) With regards to Africa more specifically, Aggarwal et al (2011) use the Gallup World Poll to show that only 15% of people in Sub-Saharan Africa have a ... Dupas, Pascaline, and Jonathan Robinson (2012).“Why don’t the Poor Save More? Evidence from Health Savings Experiments in Kenya” Mimeo, UCLA [25] Dupas, Pascaline, Sarah Green, Anthony Keats, and...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 10:20

... savings bank is a liated with one federal state bank (“Landesbank”) and each federal state bank is a liated with a state (“Bundesland”) or group of states The a liated savings banks own each a ... deviation of the average return of assets, E stands for equity, and A for total assets.22 The latter two are used to calculate the capital assets ratio (E /A = CAR) ROAA and CAR are both averages ... characteristics, we also use annual balance sheets for the 452 savings banks The savings bank data is also from the German Savings Banks Association By using this proprietary data set, the sample...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 10:20

... firm-years rather than simply firms See Carpenter and Guariglia (2003), Bond and Meghir (1994), Kaplan and Zingales (1997), Guariglia and Schiantarelli (1998), and Guariglia (2000) for a similar approach ... channel actually weakens the traditional credit channel (see De Blasio, 2003, for a similar approach) As financially constrained firm- years are more likely to be affected by financial variables ... equation with a coverage ratio variable and a trade credit to assets variable, and we have estimated it differentiating the effects of the latter two variables for small and large firm- years...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 08:20

... of a balance sheet are still limited, a qualitative survey may actually offer a stronger appraisal of their actual behaviors Section two of the paper presents a brief description of the data base ... analysis (Alfandari & Schaffer, 1996; Lehmann and al, 1998) and anecdotal evidence suggest indeed that delays in the payment of wages has been a dominant form of labor market adjustment in Russia 11 ... quarterly basis by the Russian Academy of Science Questions are mainly of a qualitative nature, with a number of possible answers ranging from two to ten, as their scope takes a more cardinal nature...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 08:20

... significant, given that EFF1 and EFF2 both appear twice in the three main variables and W2 appears in all three main variables (recall that W1 s - W2) and is also represent~ a fourth time as a stand-alone ... 27Thus, ROAa = NIa/TA and ROEa = N~/EQ, where NIa is net income plus taxes and provisions, TA = total assets and EQ = equity capital The average ROAa (ROEa) level for merging banks was 1.4% (22%) ... between banks that have significant local market overlap ex ante may increase local market concentration and market share and allow the consolidated banks to raise profits by setting prices less favorable...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 08:21

... savings balance (hundreds) Active account Barangay’s distance to branch Bank’s penetration in barangay Standard deviation of balances in barangay (hundreds) Mean savings balance in barangay (hundreds) ... TABLE II SUMMARY STATISTICS OF VARIABLES, BY TREATMENT ASSIGNMENT MEANS AND STANDARD ERRORS F-stat Control Marketing Treatment P-value A VARIABLES AVAILABLE AT TIME OF RANDOMIZATION Client savings ... visit from the Bank “Active” (row 2) defined as having had a transaction in their account in the past six months Mean balances of savings accounts include empty accounts Barangays are the smallest...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 10:20

... empirical analysis using a large German panel data set Fred Ramb 26 22 2007 Volatile multinationals? Evidence from the labor demand of German firms Claudia M Buch Alexander Lipponer 23 2007 International ... quality of banking and regional growth Hasan, Koetter, Wedow 11 2007 Welfare effects of financial integration Fecht, Grüner, Hartmann 12 2007 The marketability of bank assets and managerial Falko ... risk-return-characteristics – evidence from loan portfolios of German banks A Behr, A Kamp C Memmel, A Pfingsten 05 2007 06 2007 How banks adjust their capital ratios? Evidence from Germany Christoph...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 23:20

... that parental education may affect child health indirectly via parental behavior, parental health and parental financial resources By investigating the causal impact of education on these parental ... health, parental education and child health can also be related in non-causal ways Indeed, endowments that are transmitted across generations can cause a positive association between parental education ... of parental education on a wide range of child health variables These variables include health measured at birth as well as health measured later in childhood We discussed above that parental...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 09:20

... Evelyn Eleku, Nankinga Ziadah, Leah Wanyenya, Albert Majwala and Grace Nakate We are indebted to the district health teams and all the health professionals and patients in the health facilities included ... comprising a social scientist, medical doctor and field assistant A team spent one day at each facility and collected data from an average of 11 facilities during a twoweek period in July and August ... six areas were selected: Arua, Lira, Masaka, Hoima, Kabale and Mbale Using proportionate allocation to size sampling method, a sample 44 of the 205 accredited facilities as of July 2006 was selected...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... was assessed using a 7-day point prevalence analysis [16] Discharge was assessed both after BMT and after technical training school, the second level training after BMT, and before a participant's ... self-rated general health and important medical endpoints [1,5,6] Given its brevity and apparent validity as a marker for health and health behaviors, self-rated health may prove to be a useful ... effects reaching statistical significance In summary, a single-item self-assessment of health was consistently related to a variety of health parameters important to the military Used at a population...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... DA: National Ambulatory Care Survey: 2001 summary Vital and Health Statistics of the National Center for Health Statistics 2003, 337: Cabana MD, Rand CS, Powe NR, Wu AW, Wilson MH, Abboud PAC, ... during and after an intervention to improve preventive care at a subset of practices estimated to have the highest and lowest capacity for change Each box and bracket represent the mean and standard ... rather than actual behaviors To assess the association of capacity for change with demonstrable improvements in evidence- based health care delivery, we used data from the Study to Enhance Prevention...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... DA: National Ambulatory Care Survey: 2001 summary Vital and Health Statistics of the National Center for Health Statistics 2003, 337: Cabana MD, Rand CS, Powe NR, Wu AW, Wilson MH, Abboud PAC, ... during and after an intervention to improve preventive care at a subset of practices estimated to have the highest and lowest capacity for change Each box and bracket represent the mean and standard ... rather than actual behaviors To assess the association of capacity for change with demonstrable improvements in evidence- based health care delivery, we used data from the Study to Enhance Prevention...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:21

... recombinant activated factor VII Mil Med 2004, 169:16-18 41 Warren O, Mandal K, Hadjianastassiou V, Knowlton L, Panesar S, John K, Darzi A, Athanasiou T: Recombinant activated factor VII in cardiac ... 36:1001-1010 Maas AIR, Dearden M, Teasdale GM, Braakman R, Cohadon F, Iannoti F, Karimi A, Lapierre F, Murray G, Ohman J, et al.: EBIC guidelines for management of severe head injury in adults Acta Neurichir ... of recombinant activated factor VIIa Overall, rFVIIa is considered to have a favorable safety profile in hemophilia and in critical bleedings across a broad array of clinical scenarios [47-51]...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... earnings manipulation and auditor independence 291 A- share listed companies from 1999-2004 as initial samples All data used in the present article were from China Stock Market Financial Database ... the switch ASC NASC (p-value) ASC NASC (p-value) ASC NASC (p-value) Year of the switch Discretionary accruals changes before and after the switch Discretionary accruals (DA1) Means Medians –0.012 ... clients’ earnings manipulation(Zhang and Liu, 2002; Li et al., 2004) The reason is that auditors have an incentive to protect themselves against potential damages arising from clients’ earnings manipulation...

Ngày tải lên: 06/01/2015, 19:43

... which a worker with more than seven years of tenure was awarded a positive amount at trial In all seven of these cases the award was collected It is clear that, at least in the case of public lawyers ... Settlement Delay, and Low-Quality Litigation: Empirical Evidence from Two Datasets, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 19(2):517-542 [13] Kaplan, David S., Gabriel Martínez González, and Raymond ... is a component of the total time to enforce a contract, was provided to us by the Doing Business staff and are available upon request strategy and equilibria In this area, Helland and Tabbarrock...

Ngày tải lên: 23/04/2016, 05:11

... and Kramarz 1998 Entorf, Gollac and Kramarz 1999 Asplund 1997 United States United States United States United States Australia Australia Canada Canada France France France Finland Dinardo and ... Hirschberg and J Lye 1999 “Computer Knowledge and Earnings: 19 Evidence for Australia.” Australian National University (mimeo) Bresnahan, T.F 1999 "Computerisation and Wage Dispersion: An Analytical ... Pischke 1997 Haisken-DeNew and Schmidt 1999 Oosterbeek 1997 Arabsheibani, Emami and Marin 1996 Arabsheibani and Marin 2000 Bell 1996 Green 1998 Borghans and Ter Weel 200 0a Sakellariou and Patrinos...

Ngày tải lên: 25/04/2016, 08:14

... show that only China, India, Thailand, and Vietnam have a negative effect of inflation on growth, and among the countries, Thailand and Vietnam have statistically significant meaning at 1% and 5% ... indicate that only India has the threshold at 7% and statistically significant meaning at 5% The rest of countries including China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam also ... (Todaro, 2000) • Human capital: One of the important factors influencing the gro·wth is human capital taken in the forms of education and health Assume that at a given values of potential and actual...

Ngày tải lên: 07/04/2017, 11:34

... national population (IAOS 2012) The data from Gallup International (2012) reveal that about 30% of the Vietnamese population were religious and this figure was much lower than the global average ... Cham people in the 10th and 11th centuries At present, there are about 80,000 Muslims (IAOS 2012) Data and Methods Data The study used data from the Vietnam National Aging Survey [VNAS] that was ... confirmed that the results remain practically unchanged whether one models happiness as either a cardinal variable (e.g., using an Ordinary Least Square (OLS) estimator) or an ordinal variable (e.g.,...

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