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of an interval estimate. His critique of Keynes's theory is based on a poor reading of chapter 3 of the A Treatise on …
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Using the NLSY79 and the NLSY79 Children and Young Adults datasets, this paper formulates, provides conditions for parametric and non-parametric identification and empirically estimates the parameters of an altruistic model of parental preschool investment within a structural dynamic programming...
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This paper uses data available from the National Opinion Research Center’s (NORC) survey on religious attitudes and powerful statistical methods to evaluate the effect of prayer on the attitude of God toward human beings. (JEL C21, Z12)
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uncertainty in the General Theory is based on the ergodic-non ergodic distinction. It is easy to show that this is false because … footnotes in the General Theory that established the link between Uncertainty and the Weight of the argument (evidence). This … based on Subjective Expected Utility (SEU) theory, which is based on the Ramsey-De Finetti-Savage-Friedman personalist …
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of Keynes’s General Theory (1936)”, provides an excellent summary of the error filled Post Keynesian D-Z model, as well … General Theory (1936; GT) directly contradicted the Post Keynesian claim. Davidson and the Post Keynesian school have been … in chapter 3 of the General Theory, but in a later chapter, called “The Employment Function”, which, of course, is …
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-data-knowledge provided in the real world of decision making did not allow a decision maker to specify precise, definite, exact, numerical … general, in real world decision making. Smith also rejects the normative and prescriptive roles of mathematical probability in …
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This paper considers the problem of making inferences about the effects of a program on multiple outcomes when the assignment of treatment status is imperfectly randomized. By imperfect randomization we mean that treatment status is reassigned after an initial randomization on the basis of...
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This paper considers the problem of making inferences about the effects of a program on multiple outcomes when the assignment of treatment status is imperfectly randomized. By imperfect randomization we mean that treatment status is reassigned after an initial randomization on the basis of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127296
This paper discusses and illustrates identification problems in personality psychology. The measures used by psychologists to infer traits are based on behaviors, broadly defined. These behaviors are produced from multiple traits interacting with incentives in situations. In general, measures...
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Adam Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) provided a general analysis of virtue ethics (prudence, temperance … that provided a general theory of decision making that applied to all aspects of society, and his General Theory (1936 …), which applied his general theory of decision making to one specific area, the area of macroeconomics, which was the study of …
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