scholarly journals Immigrant Heterogeneity and the Earnings Distribution in the United Kingdom and United States: New Evidence from a Panel Data Quantile Regression Analysis

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sherrilyn M. Billger ◽  
Carlos Lamarche
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Regression Analysis ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Panel Data ◽  
Quantile Regression ◽  
Earnings Distribution ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Quantile Regression Analysis ◽  
New Evidence

Waking Up in the Poll Booth

2009 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 901-910
Author(s):  
Robert E. Goodin ◽  
James Mahmud Rice
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Panel Data ◽  
The United States ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Past ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
General Elections ◽  
Waking Up

Judging from Gallup Polls in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, opinion often changes during an election campaign. Come election day itself, however, opinion often reverts back nearer to where it was before the campaign began. That that happens even in Australia, where voting is compulsory and turnout is near-universal, suggests that differential turnout among those who have and have not been influenced by the campaign is not the whole story. Inspection of individual-level panel data from 1987 and 2005 British General Elections confirms that between 3 and 5 percent of voters switch voting intentions during the campaign, only to switch back toward their original intentions on election day. One explanation, we suggest, is that people become more responsible when stepping into the poll booth: when voting they reflect back on the government's whole time in office, rather than just responding (as when talking to pollsters) to the noise of the past few days' campaigning. Inspection of Gallup Polls for UK snap elections suggests that this effect is even stronger in elections that were in that sense unanticipated.

scholarly journals Determinants of Capital Structure: A Quantile Regression Analysis

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kumar Tiwari Aviral ◽  
Krishnankutty Raveesh
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Panel Data ◽  
Capital Structure ◽  
Quantile Regression ◽  
Negative Sign ◽  
Positive Sign ◽  
Quantile Regression Analysis ◽  
The Capital Structure

Abstract In this study, we attempted to analyze the determinants of capital structure for Indian firms using a panel framework and to investigate whether the capital structure models derived from Western settings provide convincing explanations for capital structure decisions of the Indian firms. The investigation is performed using balanced panel data procedures for a sample 298 firms (from the BSE 500 firms based on the availability of data) during 2001-2010. We found that for lowest quantile LnSales and TANGIT are significant with positive sign and NDTS and PROFIT are significant with negative sign. However, in case of 0.25th quantile LnSales and LnTA are significant with positive sign and PROFIT is significant with negative sign. For median quantile PROFIT is found to be significant with negative sign and TANGIT is significant with positive sign. For 0.75th quantile, in model one, LnSales and PROFIT are significant with negative sign and TANGIT and GROWTHTA are significant with positive sign whereas, in model two, results of 0.75th quantile are similar to the median quantile of model two. For the highest quantile, in case of model one, results are similar to the case of 0.75th quantile with exception that now GROWTHTA in model one (and GROWTHSA in model two).

Reduction, Stasis, and Expansion of Budgets in Advanced Democracies

2011 ◽  
Vol 44 (8) ◽  
pp. 1060-1088 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Breunig
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Quantile Regression ◽  
The United States ◽  
Institutional Constraints ◽  
National Budget ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Institutional Costs ◽  
Budgetary Politics ◽  
Advanced Democracies

This article investigates changes within national budget by examining actors’ behavioral predilections and the institutional constraints under which they operate. The article presents three theoretical propositions about the influence of attention and institutions on all magnitudes of programmatic budget changes ranging from large cuts to massive expansions. Using quantile regression, the author is able to uncover which distinct processes bear on cuts, stasis, and expansion across spending categories within a budget. An examination of budgetary data from Denmark, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States from 1964 to 1999 leads to the conclusion that attention shifts lead to contractions and expansions of budgetary items, whereas preference-based explanations have marginal support. In addition, institutional costs involved in budgetary politics amplify budgetary shifts. The author closes the article by discussing the implications of the findings for partisan theories of government and institutional theories.

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