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Cash transfer programs are widely used in settings where child labour is prevalent. Even if many of these programs are explicitly implemented to improve children's welfare, in theory their impact on child labour is undetermined. This paper systematically reviews the empirical evidence on the...
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researchers and policy-makers alike. To shed light on the implications of informal caregiving, this paper reviews current research … interdisciplinary, the research designs, sampling procedures, and statistical methods used are heterogeneous. Nevertheless, we are still … implications for family life remain under investigated. The research findings also differ strongly among subgroups, although they …
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We review the theories put forward, methodological approaches used, and empirical conclusions found in the … that are of high academic and policy relevance. One such insight uncovered by our review is that student employment seems …
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The welcome rise of replication tests in economics has not been accompanied by a single, clear definition of replication. A discrepant replication, in current usage of the term, can signal anything from an unremarkable disagreement over methods to scientific incompetence or misconduct. This...
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, participants completed 3 tasks of interest that contribute to an understanding or one's ethics: a task assessing prosociality, a …
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2007-2012 using a survey of employers, such as universities, institutions of applied higher education and research … view, assumes significant growth in research funding, which the respondents mostly did not believe would occur, despite it … ; research and development ; academic fields …
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levels and rather for management jobs than for jobs in research and development. This is true for the whole chemical sector …
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analyze the perceptions and attitudes of postdocs regarding their research incentives, their working conditions, and their … training to academic or non-academic jobs. Only about half of the postdocs sees strong incentives for academic research, but … better career prospects and higher research incentives compared to others. Academic career prospects and motivation are …
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's future research output. After adjustment for a range of personal and institutional characteristics, departmental research …
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concern is that a "new class of research person will emerge" that uses data, which were gathered by other researchers, for … their own original research questions. The authors referred to this class of researcher as "research parasites". Longo and … of data sharing by research communities by introducing citations of data sets, bestowing awards for good datasets, and …
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