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June-Hyuk Kwon, Seung-Hye Jung, Hyun-ju Choi et al. · 2020 · Journal of Product & Brand Management
Purpose This study aims to empirically analyze the effects of marketing communications, such as advertisement/promotion and social network service (SNS) content, on consumer engagement (CE), brand trust and brand loyalty.…
View details →Christian Dustmann, Patrick A. Puhani, Uta Schönberg · 2016 · The Economic Journal
We investigate the effects of attending a more advanced track in middle school on long‐term education and labour market outcomes for Germany, a country with a rigorous early‐age tracking system, where the risk of misallocating students is…
View details →Alec Stone Sweet, Thomas L. Brunell · 2012 · American Political Science Review
In an article previously published by the APSR , Carrubba, Gabel, and Hankla claim that the decision making of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has been constrained—systematically—by the threat of override on the part of member state…
View details →Samuel Bazzi, Arya Gaduh, Alexander D. Rothenberg et al. · 2016 · American Economic Review
We use a natural experiment in Indonesia to provide causal evidence on the role of location-specific human capital and skill transferability in shaping the spatial distribution of productivity. From 1979–1988, the Transmigration Program…
View details →Edda Humprecht, Laia Castro, Sina Blassnig et al. · 2022 · Journal of Communication
Abstract Media systems have changed significantly as a result of the development of information technologies. However, typologies of media systems that incorporate aspects of digitalization are rare. This study fills this gap by…
View details →Pamela Stone, Lisa Ackerly Hernandez · 2013 · Journal of Social Issues
Using a model of the stigmatization of flexible work based on status legitimation theory, we analyze the experiences of a sample of 54 mothers who “opted out” of professional jobs. Qualitative text analysis reveals that features of women's…
View details →Shigeo Hirano, James M. Snyder, Stephen Ansolabehere et al. · 2010 · Quarterly Journal of Political Science
Many observers and scholars argue that primary elections contribute to ideological polarization in U.S. politics. We test this claim using congressional elections and roll call voting behavior. Many of our findings are null. We find little…
View details →Stephen J. Macdonald, John Clayton · 2012 · Disability & Society
The aim of this article is to explore disability and the digital divide using a quantitative methodology. The research investigates what impact digital technologies have had in improving the life-chances for disabled people from deprived neighbourhoods in the northeast of England. The study explores how disabled people engage with digital and assistive technologies in order to overcome disabling barriers and social exclusion. Unfortunately, the analysis found no evidence that digital and assistive technologies had any impact on reducing social exclusion for disabled people. In fact, the resear
View details →Elizabeth Asiedu · 2014 · Journal of African Development
Abstract This paper examines whether foreign aid in education has a significant effect on growth in Sub-Saharan Africa. Our analysis covers 38 countries over the period 1990–2004 and we control for initial per capita income, inflation,…
View details →Colleen M. Ganley, Leigh A. Mingle, Allison M. Ryan et al. · 2013 · Developmental Psychology
Stereotype threat has been proposed as 1 potential explanation for the gender difference in standardized mathematics test performance among high-performing students. At present, it is not entirely clear how susceptibility to stereotype…
View details →Ben Jones, Marie Juul Petersen · 2011 · Third World Quarterly
Abstract There is a growing body of research on religion and development, primarily from development scholars and practitioners. In many ways this represents a new departure for development studies, which has been largely uninterested in…
View details →Patricia Funk, Christina Gathmann · 2011 · The Economic Journal
Using new historical data from Swiss cantons, we estimate the effect of direct democracy on government spending. We use fixed effects to control for unobserved heterogeneity and new instruments to address potential endogeneity concerns. We…
View details →Salman Farisi, Juli Irnawati, Muhammad Fahmi · 2020 · Jurnal Humaniora Jurnal Ilmu Sosial Ekonomi dan Hukum
To achieve company goals, human resource management which has the potential to affect the performance of employees which will ultimately affect the performance of the company. To be able to show the performance of the employees PT. Perkebunan Nusantara V (Persero) Kebun Tanah Putih at Riau Province, the company is required to uphold the motivation and work discipline of the employees. The purpose of this study was to determine and analyze the influence of motivation and work discipline on the performance of employees of PT. Perkebunan Nusantara V (Persero) Kebun Tanah Putih Provinsi Riau. The
View details →Sandra E. Black, Paul J. Devereux, Kjell G. Salvanes · 2015 · American Economic Journal Applied Economics
Using population data from Norway, we examine the effects of stress induced by the death of the mother's parent during pregnancy on both the short-run and the long-run outcomes of the infant. Using a variety of empirical strategies to…
View details →Andrew Rojecki, Sharon Meraz · 2014 · New Media & Society
The World Wide Web has changed the dynamics of information transmission and agenda-setting. Facts mingle with half-truths and untruths to create factitious informational blends (FIBs) that drive speculative politics. We specify an…
View details →Oisín Tansey · 2015 · Democratization
Recent scholarship has increasingly focused on the international dimensions of authoritarian rule, and the idea of autocracy promotion has gained considerable academic currency. While the literature on autocracy promotion has identified…
View details →Alessandro Gavazza, Mattia Nardotto, Tommaso Valletti · 2018 · The Review of Economic Studies
Abstract We empirically study the effects of broadband internet diffusion on local election outcomes and on local government policies using rich data from the U.K. Our analysis shows that the internet has displaced other media with greater…
View details →Christopher Redding, Thomas M. Smith · 2016 · American Educational Research Journal
Alternative certification programs are now commonplace in the credentialing of new teachers. We complement the growing evidence base for these teachers by exploring their turnover patterns in four waves of the nationally representative…
View details →David A. Tandberg, Nicholas Hillman · 2014 · Journal of education finance
As states explore strategies for increasing educational attainment levels, attention is being paid to performance funding. This study asks, “Does the introduction of performance funding programs affect degree completion among participating…
View details →P. M. Bombuwela, De Alwis · 2013 · Journal of Competitiveness
The study was entirely designed by centering the focal problem of the effect of Glass Ceiling on Women Career Development. The overall study was structure based on the conceptual framework built up using the information of literature survey. The study was conducted with the aim of obtaining the following objective. That is "To find out the Effect of Glass Ceiling on Women Career Development with regard to female executive level employees who are working in private sector organizations." At the same time, hypotheses are developed to find out whether there is a significant effect of Individual F
View details →Daantje Derks, Lieke L. ten Brummelhuis, Dino Zecic et al. · 2012 · European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology
This study examines the impact of work-related smartphone use on daily recovery from work-related efforts. The literature shows that work–home interference (WHI) is an important inhibitor of the recovery process. We propose that the…
View details →Mark Umbricht, Frank Fernandez, Justin C. Ortagus · 2015 · Educational Policy
Previous studies have shown that state performance funding policies do not increase baccalaureate degree production, but higher education scholarship lacks a rigorous, quantitative analysis of the unintended consequences of performance…
View details →Achmad Daengs GS · 2020 · Sinergi Jurnal Ilmiah Ilmu Manajemen
ABSTRACT. The objective of this study to analyses the effects of entrepreneurial competency, marketing capability, financial resources, technology usage, knowledge sharing to business success on Small-Micro Enterprises built by Industrial…
View details →Sarah Kreps, Nabarun Dasgupta, John S. Brownstein et al. · 2021 · npj Vaccines
While efficacious vaccines have been developed to inoculate against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2; also known as COVID-19), public vaccine hesitancy could still undermine efforts to combat the pandemic. Employing a survey of 1096 adult Americans recruited via the Lucid platform, we examined the relationships between vaccine attributes, proposed policy interventions such as financial incentives, and misinformation on public vaccination preferences. Higher degrees of vaccine efficacy significantly increased individuals' willingness to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, whi
View details →Gary Lichtenstein, Alexander C. McCormick, Sheri Sheppard et al. · 2010 · Journal of Engineering Education
B ackground The authors partnered with the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) to examine how persistence within the engineering major and engagement of undergraduate students in engineering compare to other majors. P urpose (H…
View details →Øyvind Stiansen, Erik Voeten · 2020 · International Studies Quarterly
Abstract How does backlash from consolidated democracies affect the behavior of liberal international institutions? We argue that liberal international institutions have incentives to appease their democratic critics. Liberal institutions…
View details →Adrienne Lucas, Isaac Mbiti · 2014 · American Economic Journal Applied Economics
The most desirable Kenyan secondary schools are elite government schools that admit the best students from across the country. We exploit the random variation generated by the centralized school admissions process in a regression…
View details →Jason W. Ridge, Federico Aime, Margaret A. White · 2013 · Strategic Management Journal
We integrate the seemingly contradictory theoretical predictions of behavioral and economic perspectives about the relationship between pay disparity and firm performance and show that tournament and social comparison theories are more…
View details →Yann P. Kerevel, Lonna Rae Atkeson · 2013 · The Journal of Politics
Previous research suggests that women tend to be marginalized in legislatures or denied access to important agenda-setting resources that reduce their effectiveness as legislators after gaining office. However, previous studies have not…
View details →John Alford, Sophie Yates · 2015 · Australian Journal of Public Administration
This article adds to the emerging empirical literature on citizen co‐production. Based on a telephone survey of 1000 Australian adults, it replicates a five‐country European study focusing on three policy domains: neighbourhood safety,…
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