The phrase "a standard deviation increase" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in statistical contexts to describe a change or increase in a variable measured in terms of standard deviations.
Example: "The study found that a standard deviation increase in test scores was associated with improved student performance."
Alternatives: "an increase of one standard deviation" or "a rise of one standard deviation".
Although the pollution level is a unit-less index that makes interpreting the magnitude of the coefficient difficult, a standardized estimate implies that a standard deviation increase in pollution results in about 0.52 h decrease in labor supply.
For those at the mean level of g at age 11, 58% achieved this; a standard deviation increase or decrease in g altered the values to 91% and 16%, respectively.
For a standard deviation increase in Conscientiousness, life satisfaction increases by 0.27 SD, holding all other variables constant.
Our findings imply a standard deviation increase in science peer quality lowers the final GPA of non-minority intending science majors by 0.125 points.
A standard deviation increase in Perseverance of effort results in a 0.10 SD increase in health, holding all other variables constant.
Carrell et al. (2009) is an exception; these authors found that a 100-point increase in the Verbal SAT scores of freshmen squadron members, the equivalent of a standard deviation increase in test score, raised the cumulative grades of U.S. Air Force Academy cadets by approximately 0.25 grade points.
A standard deviation increases by a factor of 14 because of the turbulence interaction.
Increasing the ability of intending non-science major peers by a standard deviation increases the likelihood of graduating with a STEM degree by roughly nine percentage points.
Specifically, increasing the ability of other intending STEM major peers by a standard deviation increases the likelihood that a student switches to a non-STEM field by around ten percentage points.
Increasing the ability of non-STEM major peers by a standard deviation increases the likelihood that an intending STEM major stays in the sciences by just over fourteen percentage points.
A one standard deviation increase in abnormal return performance increases compensation by 0.04 standard-deviations; ten times less than a standard-deviation increase in revenue!
