Supporting socio-economically disadvantaged students to improve their academic resilience is vital in promoting social mobility and halting intergenerational transmission of poverty. Based on the baseline data 2013-2014 from China Education Panel Survey (CEPS) database, this paper examined impact preschool education experience using coarsened exact matching (CEM) hierarchical logistic regressio...

Ensuring Wikipedia cites scholarly publications based on quality and relevancy without biases is critical to credible fair knowledge dissemination. We investigate gender- country-based in citation practices using linked data from the Web of Science a dataset. Using coarsened exact matching, we show that by women are cited less than expected, likely be those men. Scholarly authors affiliated wit...

Abstract Controlling for confounding factors is one of the central aspects quantitative research. Although methods such as linear regression models are common, their results can be misleading under certain conditions. We demonstrate how statistical matching utilized an alternative that enables inspection post-matching balancing. This contribution serves empirical demonstration in bibliometrics ...

BACKGROUND The Korean War GI Bill provided economic benefits for veterans, thereby potentially improving their health outcomes. However potential spillover effects on veteran wives have not been evaluated. METHODS Data from wives of veterans eligible for the Korean War GI Bill (N = 128) and wives of non-veterans (N = 224) from the Health and Retirement Study were matched on race and coarsened...

This study examines the relationship between financial distress and environmental, social, governance (ESG) disclosure. We hypothesize that financially distressed firms are tempted to enhance ESG disclosure as it provides higher performance in terms of market perspectives. needs substantial resources, which may not be able provide. In Indonesian settings, we find have lower quality than non-dis...

Past research suggests that spouses influence one another to vote, but it relies almost exclusively on correlation in turnout. It is therefore difficult to establish whether spouses mobilize each other or tend to marry similar others. Here, we test the dependency hypothesis by examining voting behavior before and after the death of a spouse. We link nearly six million California voter records t...

W examine how initial public offerings (IPOs) and acquisitions affect entrepreneurial innovation as measured by patent counts and forward patent citations. We construct a firm-year panel data set of all venture capital-backed biotechnology firms founded between 1980 and 2000, tracked yearly through 2006. We address the possibility of unobserved self-selection into exit mode by using coarsened e...

Abstract Child labour is a global issue which creates need for evidence-based interventions such as cash and in-kind transfers. However, there limited evidence about the effect of transfers on child labour, impeding policy development. We address this gap by examining impacts an unconditional transfer, nation-wide subsidised rice program, schooling using longitudinal household survey data from ...