Does aid improve democracy and governance? A meta-regression analysis

Does Aid Affect Governance?

Does Stronger Corporate Governance Improve Financial Reporting Quality? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Analysis of Shareholder-Sponsored Governance Proposals

This study examines whether stronger corporate governance leads to higher quality financial reporting. We use a regression discontinuity method to analyze the effect on financial reporting quality of shareholder-sponsored governance proposals that pass or fail by a small margin of votes in annual meetings. This empirical strategy allows us to overcome the endogeneity problem of governance mecha...

Does Better Corporate Governance Improve Financial Reporting Quality? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Analysis of Shareholder-Sponsored Governance Proposals

This study examines whether improvements in corporate governance lead to higher quality financial reporting. We use a regression discontinuity method to analyze the effect on financial reporting quality of shareholder-sponsored governance proposals that pass or fail by a small margin of votes in annual meetings. This empirical strategy allows us to overcome the endogeneity problem of governance...

Prevalence of asthma in iranian children: a meta-analysis and meta-regression

Background: Asthma is the most prevalent chronic disease in childhood and has been growing globally over the last three decades. Studies in this regard indicate different and irrelevant results in Iran. Different prevalence of asthma has been reported in industrialized countries, prevalence of 25.9% in the United Kingdom, 12.8% in Spain and 31% in Australia. This study aimed to evaluate asthma ...

Does Team Training Improve Team Performance? A Meta-Analysis

OBJECTIVE This research effort leveraged the science of training to guide a taxonomic integration and a series of meta-analyses to gauge the effectiveness and boundary conditions of team training interventions for enhancing team outcomes. BACKGROUND Disparate effect sizes across primary studies have made it difficult to determine the true strength of the relationships between team training te...