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Martin Schneider, Mihai Păunescu · 2012 · Socio-Economic Review
In this paper, the varieties of capitalism (VoC) approach by Hall and Soskice (2001) is tested with longitudinal data and with measures covering all four institutional spheres differentiated in this approach. Among 26 OECD countries, we…
View details →Brian Jacob, Jens Ludwig · 2012 · American Economic Review
This study estimates the effects of means-tested housing programs on labor supply using data from a randomized housing voucher wait-list lottery in Chicago. Economic theory is ambiguous about the expected sign of any labor supply response.…
View details →Nicole Tausch, Miles Hewstone, Jared B. Kenworthy et al. · 2010 · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Although intergroup contact is one of the most prominent interventions to reduce prejudice, the generalization of contact effects is still a contentious issue. This research further examined the rarely studied secondary transfer effect…
View details →Louise C. Hawkley, Susanne Buecker, Till Kaiser et al. · 2020 · International Journal of Behavioral Development
Prior research in non-U.S. samples has found a complex nonlinear relationship between loneliness and age. This research has shown that established predictors of loneliness - poor health, being unmarried, living alone, and having infrequent…
View details →Daniel Schneider, Orestes P Hastings, Joe LaBriola · 2018 · American Sociological Review
Historic increases in income inequality have coincided with widening class divides in parental investments of money and time in children. These widening class gaps are significant because parental investment is one pathway by which advantage is transmitted across generations. Using over three decades of micro-data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey and the American Heritage Time Use Survey linked to state-year measures of income inequality, we test the relationship between income inequality and class gaps in parental investment. We find robust evidence of wider class gaps in parental financi
View details →Rose E. O’Dea, Malgorzata Lagisz, Michael D. Jennions et al. · 2018 · Nature Communications
Fewer women than men pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), despite girls outperforming boys at school in the relevant subjects. According to the 'variability hypothesis', this over-representation of males is driven by gender differences in variance; greater male variability leads to greater numbers of men who exceed the performance threshold. Here, we use recent meta-analytic advances to compare gender differences in academic grades from over 1.6 million students. In line with previous studies we find strong evidence for lower variation among girls than boy
View details →Claartje L. ter Hoeven, Ward van Zoonen · 2015 · New Technology Work and Employment
Advances in communication technology continue to expand the possibilities for redesigning work environments to allow for temporal and spatial flexibility. Although flexible work designs ( FWDs ) are typically launched with high…
View details →Sinan Özgelen · 2012 · Eurasia Journal of Mathematics Science and Technology Education
The purpose of this study was to investigate Turkish primary students’ scientific process skills under the theoretical framework of cognitive domain. The sample set consisted of 306 sixth and seventh grade students from public, private, and bussed schools. The Turkish Integrated Process Skill Test was used to measure scientific process skills, and the findings showed generally low scores. However, results indicated significant differences between sixth and seventh grade students at private and public schools. In addition, significant differences emerged among sixth grade students at each schoo
View details →Ryan Hidayat Rafiola, Punaji Setyosarı, Carolina Ligya Radjah et al. · 2020 · International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET)
This study aims to analyze the effect of learning motivation, self-efficacy, and blended learning on students’ achievement in the industrial revolution 4.0. This is done to follow the development of the world of education to improve the quality of service, Human Resources and the quality of graduates. The research object was Public High School in Padang Sampling using Slovin formula. To analyze the research data used Partial Least Square (PLS) Version 3.0. The results showed that (1) Learning Motivation had a positive and significant effect on student achievement of Public High School in Padan
View details →Sara Cools, Jon H. Fiva, Lars J. Kirkebøen · 2015 · Scandinavian Journal of Economics
Abstract Reserving a share of the parental leave period for fathers is considered necessary in order to induce fathers to take leave, and to increase men's participation in child‐rearing. We investigate how a parental leave reform directed…
View details →Darrell Steffensmeier, Noah Painter‐Davis, Jeffery T. Ulmer · 2016 · Sociological Perspectives
Race, ethnicity, gender, and age are core foci within sociology and law/criminology. Also prominent is how these statuses intersect to affect behavioral outcomes, but statistical studies of intersectionality are rare. In the area of…
View details →Andreas Wimmer, Yuval Feinstein · 2010 · American Sociological Review
Why did the nation-state proliferate across the world over the past 200 years, replacing empires, kingdoms, city-states, and the like? Using a new dataset with information on 145 of today’s states from 1816 to the year they achieved…
View details →Graeme Blair, C. Christine Fair, Neil Malhotra et al. · 2012 · American Journal of Political Science
Policy debates on strategies to end extremist violence frequently cite poverty as a root cause of support for the perpetrating groups. There is little evidence to support this contention, particularly in the Pakistani case. Pakistan's…
View details →Tran D. Keys, George Farkas, Margaret Burchinal et al. · 2013 · Child Development
This article examines associations between observed quality in preschool center classrooms for approximately 6,250 three- to five-year-olds and their school readiness skills at kindergarten entry. Secondary analyses were conducted using…
View details →David Larson, Chung-Hsien Sung · 2019 · Online Learning
The purpose of this research was to perform a three way comparison of delivery modes for an introductory Management Information Systems course to determine if there existed a difference in student success among the delivery modes. The research compares student exam and final grade results in this class that was taught by the same instructor using face-to-face, blended and online delivery modes. An Analysis of Variance test was used on the exam and final grade data to determine if a significant difference existed. Additionally, a discussion of this class in relation to student satisfaction, lea
View details →Run Zheng, Zhuyuan Li, Sang-Gyun Na · 2022 · Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services
In the emerging retail market, e-tailers operating in developing economies have to cope with the rapid use of the Internet, new electronic purchasing methods and online selling platforms. However, e-tailers do not understand the effect…
View details →Kyu-Nahm Jun, Christopher Weare · 2010 · Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
This article examines the institutional motivations underlying innovation. Although attention to motivation played a role in early theorizing on innovation, the phenomenon is understudied empirically. A clearer understanding of the…
View details →H. Muhammad Arifin H. Muhammad Arifin · 2014 · International Education Studies
The study aims to find out and analyze the influence of competence, motivation, and organizational competence to high school teacher job satisfaction and performance in Jayapura City, Papua, Indonesia. The study was conducted on 117 respondents of 346 teachers by means of questionnaire. Data is analyzed by SEM analysis method in AMOS program. Findings indicate that competence and organizational culture affect positively and insignificantly teacher job satisfaction. While, job motivation affects positively and significantly teacher job satisfaction, but it did not give any significant effect on
View details →Douglas Almond, Lena Edlund, Kevin Milligan · 2013 · Population and Development Review
Preference for sons over daughters, evident in China's and South Asia's male sex ratios, is commonly rationalized by poverty and the need for old‐age support. In this article we study South and East Asian immigrants to Canada, a group for…
View details →Paul Mohai, Robin Saha · 2015 · Environmental Research Letters
Although a large body of quantitative environmental justice research exists, only a handful of studies have examined the processes by which racial and socioeconomic disparities in the location of polluting industrial facilities can occur. These studies have had mixed results, we contend, principally because of methodological differences, that is, the use of the unit-hazard coincidence method as compared to distance-based methods. This study is the first national-level environmental justice study to conduct longitudinal analyses using distance-based methods. Our purposes are to: (1) determine w
View details →Joseph R. Cimpian, Sarah Theule Lubienski, Colleen M. Ganley et al. · 2013 · Developmental Psychology
A recent wave of research suggests that teachers overrate the performance of girls relative to boys and hold more positive attitudes toward girls' mathematics abilities. However, these prior estimates of teachers' supposed female bias are…
View details →Simone Dietrich, Joseph Wright · 2015 · The Journal of Politics
Over the past two decades, donors increasingly link foreign aid to democracy objectives in Africa. This study investigates whether and how foreign aid influences specific outcomes associated with democratic transition and consolidation.…
View details →Brandon De La Cuesta, Kosuke Imai · 2016 · Annual Review of Political Science
Recently, the regression discontinuity (RD) design has become increasingly popular among social scientists. One prominent application is the study of close elections. We explicate several methodological misunderstandings widespread across…
View details →Nathan Danneman, Emily Hencken Ritter · 2013 · Journal of Conflict Resolution
Civil conflict appears to be contagious—scholars have shown that civil wars in a state’s neighborhood make citizens more likely to rebel at home. However, war occurs when both rebels and the state engage in conflict. How do state…
View details →Laurie C. Maldonado, Rense Nieuwenhuis · 2015 · Community Work & Family
This study examined to what extent family policies differently affect poverty among single-parent households and two-parent households. We distinguished between reconciliation policies (tested with parental leave and the proportion of…
View details →Patrick Sturgis, Ian Brunton‐Smith, Sanna Read et al. · 2010 · British Journal of Political Science
We use a multi-level modelling approach to estimate the effect of ethnic diversity on measures of generalized and strategic trust using data from a new survey in Britain with a sample size approaching 25,000 individuals. In addition to the…
View details →Randi Hjalmarsson, Helena Holmlund, Matthew J. Lindquist · 2014 · The Economic Journal
This article studies the causal effect of educational attainment on conviction and incarceration using Sweden's compulsory schooling reform as an instrument for years of schooling and a 70% sample from Sweden's Multigenerational Register…
View details →T. Ginsburg, Mila Versteeg · 2013 · The Journal of Law Economics and Organization
In recent decades, there has been a wide-ranging global movement towards constitutional review. This development poses important puzzles of political economy: Why would self-interested governments willingly constrain themselves by…
View details →Michael A. Beam, Myiah J. Hutchens, Jay D. Hmielowski · 2018 · Information Communication & Society
The rise of social media, and specifically Facebook, as a dominant force in the flow of news in the United States has led to concern that people incur greater isolation from diverse perspectives through filter bubbles (from algorithmic…
View details →Ronald E. Robertson, Shan Jiang, Kenneth Joseph et al. · 2018 · Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
There is a growing consensus that online platforms have a systematic influence on the democratic process. However, research beyond social media is limited. In this paper, we report the results of a mixed-methods algorithm audit of partisan…
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