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  1. 1. Education, Age Cohort, and The Status Quo of Microentrepreneurs: Evidence from Chinese "Double Innovation" Reform

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Qingrong Wu; [2024]
    Keywords : Self-employment; Young Cohort with High Educational Degrees; Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design; Difference in Difference Model; Policy Focused Study;

    Abstract : This paper examines the effectiveness of the Chinese "Double Innovation" Reform and "Entrepreneurship Leading" Policy on labor outcomes using Chinese Family Panel Studies (CFPS) from 2010 to 2020. The study employs fuzzy regression discontinuity design and difference-in-difference models to analyze their effects on high educational degrees, self-employment, and salaried employment. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Effect of a Universal Primary Education Reform on Gender Attitudes in Uganda

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Emma Bergman Karlsson; Klara Holmer; [2023]
    Keywords : Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design; Two-Stage Least Squares; Gender Attitudes; Universal Primary Education; Uganda;

    Abstract : This thesis examines whether greater access to primary school education for girls and a decreased gender gap in primary school education affects gender attitudes, by studying a Universal Primary Education reform in Uganda that eliminated primary school fees. We conduct a Two-Stage Least Squares regression where we use exogenous variation in exposure to the reform as an instrumental variable to estimate the effect of educational attainment on gender attitudes. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Effects of Voting Rights on Political Competence : A Regression Discontinuity Approach

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Theodor Thisell; [2023]
    Keywords : voting age; political competence; political knowledge; communicative skills; regression discontinuity design;

    Abstract : At what age people ought to be given the right to vote has become a salient issue in both contemporary Western politics and political science. A prevalent argument opposing lowering the voting age to 16 asserts that 16- and 17-year-olds lack the necessary political competence required of voters. READ MORE

  5. 4. Gibbs Phenomenon for Fourier-Legendre Series

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för matematik och datavetenskap (from 2013)

    Author : Joakim Andersson Svendsen; [2023]
    Keywords : Fourier series; Fourier-Legendre series; Gibbs phenomenon;

    Abstract : In this thesis, the main objective is to study the presence of Gibbs phenomenon and the Gibbs constant in Fourier-Legendre series. The occurrence of The Gibbs phenomenon is a well known consequence when approximating functions with Fourier series that have points of discontinuity. READ MORE

  6. 5. Analysis of combined response of railway bridge and track : A parametric finite element model of the bridge across Bryngeån

    University essay from KTH/Bro- och stålbyggnad

    Author : Moa Nolinder; [2023]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : When designing a railway bridge it is common to consider and designthe bridge structure and the track structure separately. However, theyare connected and that interaction generates a combined response and aforce transfer between them. READ MORE