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- 15 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 15, 2006
these hypotheses using network analysis and a simple multivariate regression that explains bank connections. I use comparable business directories to create databases with names of directors and financial information for all major...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
generous welfare state. It emerged instead from evolving coalitions between fledgling consumer lenders seeking to make their business socially acceptable and a range of nongovernmental groups working to promote public welfare, labor, and minority rights. In France,...
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- 16 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 16
their collective interest levels to implement a regression discontinuity approach. We confirm the positive effects for venture operations, with qualitative support for a higher likelihood of successful exits. On the other hand, there is...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Data Tips & Toolkits - Research Computing Services
probabilistic record linkage model that allows for missing data and the inclusion of auxiliary information: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/fastLink/index.html. Machine Learning R Caret package, short for “Classification and View Details
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
of them can account for a quantitatively relevant fraction of our results. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54796 Formal Employment and Organized Crime: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
inequality. This result is robust to using regression and matching approaches, and to controlling for a host of potential confounders. Contrary to the effects of tax cuts, we find no effects of tax increases on income inequality at the...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
frontier technology and therefore do not need to attract foreign investment to innovate, so domestic saving does not matter for growth. A cross-country regression shows that lagged savings is positively associated with productivity growth...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/210026-PDF-ENG Using Regression Analysis to Estimate Time Equations F. Asis Martinez-Jerez and Ariel Andres BlumenkrancHarvard Business School Note 111-001 This note presents a simple way to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
to promote financial development. The evidence here includes country fixed effect regressions and an instrumental model inspired by Engerman and Sokoloff's (2002) work, which to our knowledge has not yet been used in finance and which...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
between 1995 and 2007. Multiple linear regression analyses were conducted to determine the relative impact of key factors on operative time. Explanatory learning curve models were generated, and complication data were analyzed to...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 9
seeking to make their business socially acceptable and a range of non-governmental groups working to promote public welfare, labor, and minority rights. In France, where a similar coalition did not emerge, consumer credit continued to be perceived as economically View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
actions on performance. However, standard regression models estimate only the average effects of these actions across firms. Our paper discusses how random coefficient models (RCMs) may generate new insights about firm heterogeneity and...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Numbers Talk to People
transactions. The analyst used the Cox regression model—an approach originally used to determine which patients would die and which would live over certain time periods-of "survival analysis." The analysis discovered that the...
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- 24 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 24, 2006
national male circumcision rates for African countries are both a strong predictor of HIV/AIDS prevalence and uncorrelated with other determinants of economic outcomes. Two-stage least squares regressions do not support the hypotheses...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020
know prior to this program, to help solve a real-world problem was a lot of fun and rewarding at the same time. Cathy Xu: I was able to see the application of statistics testing and how regressions help shape decisions in real life, and...
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- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Connecting With Nonprofits
decisions and actions by the partners. And regression and exit are always possible. The Collaboration Continuum is particularly useful in mapping the type of relationships a business or a nonprofit has in terms of the stages. Generally,...
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by James Austin
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
investments. Using both calendar-time portfolio stock return regressions and firm-level panel regressions we find that firms with good ratings on material sustainability issues significantly outperform firms...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 24
persistent but can also be associated with firms' risk or growth characteristics, implying that ICC regressions are likely confounded by spurious correlations. Moreover, I document that biases in GLS' measurement errors are driven not...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Right Fit for Software Testing
and applications. Regression testing should be done well if software is not to revert to an earlier state. The kind of testing that takes place varies according to the needs of applications and end users. It may include but is not limited...
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- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
measurement errors. I document the first direct empirical evidence that ICC measurement errors can be persistent, can be associated with firms' risk or growth characteristics, and thus confound regression inferences on expected returns. I...
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Sean Silverthorne