Browsing Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät by Referee "Kneib, Thomas Prof. Dr."
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A Contribution to the Empirics of Labour and Development Economics
(2014-12-19)This dissertation contains four essays of which the first two essays analyse the regional and individual persistence of unemployment, while the third essay explores the appropriate design for the amount of grant for cash ... -
Behavioral Interventions and Students' Success at University - Evidence from Randomized Field Experiments
(2022-01-20)Research over the past decades has documented the various individual and social returns to tertiary education. In many countries, however, the realization of those returns is jeopardized by high dropout rates and delayed ... -
Causality, Prediction, and Replicability in Applied Statistics: Advanced Models and Practices
(2019-07-11)Statistical tools to analyze research data are widely applied in many scientific disciplines and the need for adequate statistical models and sound statistical analyses is apparent. This thesis addresses limitations in ... -
Dependence in macroeconomic variables: Assessing instantaneous and persistent relations between and within time series
(2017-10-10)The present thesis comprises two rather independent chapters. In general, the diagnosis and quantification of dependence is a major aim of econometric studies. Along these lines, the concept of dependence serves as an ... -
Digitalisierung im Personenverkehr
(2020-06-05)The effects of demographic change and lack of acceptance pose some of the main problems for public transport infrastructure in rural areas in developed countries. In developing countries, however, there is a need to ... -
Do migrant remittances matter? Nature, determinants and impacts of remittances to Pakistan
(2015-07-08)This thesis is a collection of studies, which analyze the macro- and micro-economic aspects of the nature of migrant remittances to Pakistan and their economic impacts on the recipient households’ consumption and asset ... -
Dynamic Language Bindings for C Libraries with emphasis on their application to R
(2013-10-31)Scripting languages are becoming increasingly prevalent as a tool for rapid application development. However, numerous efficient “best-practice” software solutions are initially available as C libraries. Scripting ... -
Econometric studies on flexible modeling of developing countries in growth analysis
(2012-05-25)Over the last four decades, several methods for selecting the smoothing parameter, generally called the bandwidth, have been introduced in kernel regression. They differ quite a bit, and although there already exist ... -
Economic effects of occupational regulation
(2018-12-18)This thesis is motivated by the wish to balance the public debate on regulation. It aims to teach public and policy-makers about the seen und unseen effects as well as regulatory options of a particular form of regulation ... -
Effect Separation in Regression Models with Multiple Scales
(2017-06-12)Confounding problems in regression analysis arise when one or more third variables are simultaneously associated with both the covariates and the response variables under consideration. Even when these confounders are ... -
Essays in Development Economics: Democracy and Education
(2016-05-04)Essay 1: We reexamine the effect of economic development on the level of democracy based on the data sets of Acemoglu et al. (2008) with a novel regression specification utilizing a zero-one-inflated beta distribution for ... -
Essays in Empirical Development and Education Economics
(2015-09-17)This dissertation includes three empirical essays on development economics and one on the economics of education. The first essay (co-authored by Stephan Klasen) is a contribution to the debate surrounding the Millennium ... -
Essays on effects of policy interventions in the realm of food standards, trade, and the German labour market
(2017-03-31)The first three essays (Chapters 3, 4, and 5) analyse under which conditions positive or negative effects of standards on trade overweight. We look at the following different determinants: market structure, product ... -
Essays on Poverty Measurement and Trade
(2016-03-10)The thesis consists of four essays in the broad spectrum of development economics. While the first three essays are in the sphere of poverty measurement, the fourth essay is on the topic of trade and development. In recent ... -
Essays on structured additive regression models with applications in development economics
(2023-03-17)Structured additive regression models are a particular class of models that provide a flexible framework to deal with a wide class of effects, including linear, nonlinear, random, spatial, and interaction effects, which ... -
Estimating impact in empirical microeconomics: Two applications for the case of Tajikistan and a simulation study
(2013-02-07)The three chapters of this dissertation all deal with some aspect ofquantitative impact evaluation in a microeconomic context. The first chapter investigates the effects of labor migration from Tajikistan on household ... -
Estimation and Inference in Special Nonparametric Models with Applications to Topics in Development Economics
(2012-07-04)Semiparametric additive regression models relax the common assumption of covariate effects to have a known functional form specified by some polynomial. These models only assume that relationships are smooth and are ... -
Extending the Boosting Framework based on Bayesian Methodology
(2023-03-31)The boosting technique emerged from machine learning has become a widely used method to estimate statistical models. As one of the most successful variants, componentwise gradient boosting has been favored by more and more ... -
Growth, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Climate and Wellbeing
(2013-08-29)The five essays of this dissertation combine topics from development and environmental economics. All essays treat the overall topic on how to influence and regulate the production of CO2 emissions. The green house gas CO2 ... -
Is de-carbonized development possible? Household emissions and renewable energy in developing countries
(2014-10-24)Today’s policy makers are facing the challenge of mitigating climate change without limiting the growth potentials of developing countries. In this vein, this study offers a step towards answering the question is de-carbonized ...