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Mario Fiorini, Michael P. Keane · 2014 · Journal of Labor Economics
The allocation of children’s time among different activities may be important for cognitive and noncognitive development. Here, we exploit time use diaries from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children to study the effects of time…
View details →David Figlio, Mark Rush, Lu Yin · 2013 · Journal of Labor Economics
This article presents the first experimental evidence on the effects of live versus Internet media of instruction. Students in a large introductory microeconomics course at a major research university were randomly assigned to live…
View details →Yee Mei Heong, Widad Othman, Jailani Yunos et al. · 2011 · International Journal of Social Science and Humanity
Higher order thinking skills is an important aspect in teaching and learning especially at higher education institutions. Thinking skills practices are part of the generic skills that should be infused in all technical subjects. Students…
View details →Emily Corner, Paul Gill · 2014 · Law and Human Behavior
We test whether significant differences in mental illness exist in a matched sample of lone- and group-based terrorists. We then test whether there are distinct behavioral differences between lone-actor terrorists with and without mental…
View details →Heather K. Spence Laschinger, Ashley L. Grau, Joan Finegan et al. · 2010 · Journal of Advanced Nursing
AIM: This paper is a report of a study conducted to test a model linking new graduate nurses' perceptions of structural empowerment to their experiences of workplace bullying and burnout in Canadian hospital work settings using Kanter's…
View details →Anna Piil Damm, Christian Dustmann · 2014 · American Economic Review
This paper investigates the effect of early exposure to neighborhood crime on subsequent criminal behavior of youth exploiting a unique natural experiment between 1986 and 1998 when refugee immigrants to Denmark were assigned to…
View details →Nazanin Andalibi, Pinar Ozturk, Andrea Forte · 2017
People can benefit from disclosing negative emotions or stigmatized facets of their identities, and psychologists have noted that imagery can be an effective medium for expressing difficult emotions. Social network sites like Instagram…
View details →Will Grant, Brenda Moon, Janie Busby Grant · 2010 · Australian Journal of Political Science
The recent emergence of online social media has had a significant effect on the contemporary political landscape, yet our understanding of this remains less than complete. This article adds to current understanding of the online engagement…
View details →Andrés Rodríguez‐Pose, Roberto Ezcurra · 2010 · Journal of Economic Geography
The global drive towards decentralization has been increasingly justified on the basis that greater transfers of resources to subnational governments are expected to deliver greater efficiency in the provision of public goods and services…
View details →Karthik Muralidharan, Venkatesh Sundararaman · 2015 · The Quarterly Journal of Economics
Abstract We present experimental evidence on the impact of a school choice program in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh that provided students with a voucher to finance attending a private school of their choice. The study design featured…
View details →Amy Hsin, Christina Felfe · 2014 · Demography
This study tests the two assumptions underlying popularly held notions that maternal employment negatively affects children because it reduces time spent with parents: (1) that maternal employment reduces children's time with parents, and…
View details →Emily Hencken Ritter, Courtenay R. Conrad · 2016 · American Political Science Review
Although scholarly consensus suggests that dissent causes repression, the behaviors are endogenous: governments and dissidents act in expectation of each other’s behavior. Empirical studies have not accounted well for this endogeneity. We…
View details →Sara Cools, Andreas Kotsadam · 2017 · World Development
Combining DHS data for 580,000 women from 30 different countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, we analyze how both the incidence and the acceptance of intimate partner violence vary across time and space, in a region with record high levels of violence against women. We review the existing literature regarding the impact of resources on intimate partner violence, extracting testable and often conflicting hypotheses at the micro and macro level, and on the interaction across levels. We propose to extend existing theory to take into account attitudes at the community level. In the empirical analysis, w
View details →Awadh A.Y. Al‐Qahtani, Steve Higgins · 2012 · Journal of Computer Assisted Learning
Abstract The study investigates the effect of e‐learning, blended learning and classroom learning on students’ achievement. Two experimental groups together with a control group from U mm A l‐ Q ura U niversity in S audi A rabia were…
View details →Scott Freeman, David C. Haak, Mary Pat Wenderoth · 2011 · CBE—Life Sciences Education
We tested the hypothesis that highly structured course designs, which implement reading quizzes and/or extensive in-class active-learning activities and weekly practice exams, can lower failure rates in an introductory biology course for…
View details →Oliver Falck, Robert Gold, Stephan Heblich · 2014 · American Economic Review
This paper analyzes the effects on voting behavior of information disseminated over the Internet. We address endogeneity in Internet availability by exploiting regional and technological peculiarities of the preexisting voice telephony…
View details →E Eijgelaar, Carla Thaper, Paul Peeters · 2010 · Journal of Sustainable Tourism
This paper examines a paradoxical issue in tourism's adaptation to climate change and emissions reduction demands. Operators increasingly take tourists to destinations threatened by climate change, with Antarctica and other polar regions…
View details →Eugenio Proto, Climent Quintana‐Domeque · 2021 · PLoS ONE
We use the UK Household Longitudinal Study and compare pre-COVID-19 pandemic (2017-2019) and during-COVID-19 pandemic data (April 2020) for the same group of individuals to assess and quantify changes in mental health as measured by changes in the GHQ-12 (General Health Questionnaire), among ethnic groups in the UK. We confirm the previously documented average deterioration in mental health for the whole sample of individuals interviewed before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, we find that the average increase in mental distress varies by ethnicity and gender. Both women -regardl
View details →Gregor Kennedy, Terry Judd, Barney Dalgarno et al. · 2010 · Journal of Computer Assisted Learning
Abstract Previously assumed to be a homogenous and highly skilled group with respect to information and communications technology, the so‐called Net Generation has instead been shown to possess a diverse range of technology skills and…
View details →Xiaobo Lü, Pierre F. Landry · 2014 · American Political Science Review
We argue that interjurisdiction competition in authoritarian regimes engenders a specific logic for taxation. Promotion-seeking local officials are incentivized to signal loyalty and competence to their principals through tangible fiscal…
View details →David Cesarini, Erik Lindqvist, Robert Östling et al. · 2016 · The Quarterly Journal of Economics
Abstract We use administrative data on Swedish lottery players to estimate the causal impact of substantial wealth shocks on players’ own health and their children’s health and developmental outcomes. Our estimation sample is large,…
View details →Timothy Frye, Scott Gehlbach, Kyle L. Marquardt et al. · 2016 · Post-Soviet Affairs
Vladimir Putin has managed to achieve strikingly high public approval ratings throughout his time as president and prime minister of Russia. But is his popularity real, or are respondents lying to pollsters? We conducted a series of list…
View details →Doo Hun Lim, Michael L. Morris, Virginia W. Kupritz · 2019 · Online Learning
This study investigates differences in instructional and learner factors between two groups of learners exposed to online only and blended delivery formats, respectively, in an effort to compare learning outcomes and other instructional variables between online and blended delivery methods. Findings indicated that no significant differences existed in learning outcomes; however, significant differences existed in several instructional and learner factors between the two delivery format groups. Discussions about improving online or blended delivery method are presented based upon the research f
View details →Ruben Durante, Brian Knight · 2012 · Journal of the European Economic Association
This paper examines whether and how viewers respond to changes in partisan bias in media news. We use data from Italy, where the main private television network is owned by Silvio Berlusconi, the leader of the center-right coalition, and…
View details →Idean Salehyan, David S. Siroky, Reed M. Wood · 2014 · International Organization
Abstract Although some rebel groups work hard to foster collaborative ties with civilians, others engage in egregious abuses and war crimes. We argue that foreign state funding for rebel organizations greatly reduces incentives to “win the…
View details →Aqeel Ahmed Soomro, Robert J. Breitenecker, Syed Afzal Shah · 2018 · South Asian Journal of Business Studies
Purpose People in both the developing and developed worlds now face issues like work-to-family and family-to-work conflicts. Accordingly, the purpose of this paper is to explore the relationships between work-life balance, work-family…
View details →Maxim Pinkovskiy, Xavier Sala-i-Martín · 2016 · The Quarterly Journal of Economics
Abstract GDP per capita and household survey means present conflicting pictures of the rate of economic development in emerging countries. One of the areas in which the national accounts–household surveys debate is key is the measurement…
View details →James Druckman, ERIK PETERSON, RUNE SLOTHUUS · 2013 · American Political Science Review
Competition is a defining element of democracy. One of the most noteworthy events over the last quarter-century in U.S. politics is the change in the nature of elite party competition: The parties have become increasingly polarized.…
View details →Peter D. Howe, Jennifer R. Marlon, Matto Mildenberger et al. · 2019 · Environmental Research Letters
Abstract As climate change intensifies, global publics will experience more unusual weather and extreme weather events. How will individual experiences with these weather trends shape climate change beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors? In this article, we review 73 papers that have studied the relationship between climate change experiences and public opinion. Overall, we find mixed evidence that weather shapes climate opinions. Although there is some support for a weak effect of local temperature and extreme weather events on climate opinion, the heterogeneity of independent variables, dependen
View details →Roxana Barbulescu, Matthew Bidwell · 2012 · Organization Science
This paper examines differences in the jobs for which men and women apply in order to better understand gender segregation in managerial jobs. We develop and test an integrative theory of why women might apply to different jobs than men.…
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