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Recent studies that aim to estimate the causal link between the education of parents and their children provide evidence that is far from conclusive. This paper explores why. There are a number of possible explanations. One is that these studies rely on different data sources, gathered in...
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"The goal of scientific work is to understand more and more by less and less. In this effort, theoretical unification plays a large part. There are two main types of theoretical unification -- unification of different theories of the same field of phenomena and unification of theories of...
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education and home visits to disadvantaged children during their preschool years. It was evaluated by the method of random …
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characteristics that affect hiring. The method is applied to actual data and assessed using Monte Carlo methods. -- discrimination …
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We discuss fixed and random effects models in the context of educational research and set out the assumptions behind … wider range of research questions to be addressed. Moreover, random effects estimators of regression coefficients and …
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We use Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics data and data from a 2008 telephone survey of adults conducted by Westat for the Princeton Data Improvement Initiative (PDII) to explore the importance and feasibility of adding retrospective questions about actual work experience to cross-sectional...
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Sixty-seven field experiments of discrimination in markets conducted since 2000 across seventeen countries were surveyed. Significant and persistent discrimination was found on all bases in all markets. High levels of discrimination were recorded against ethnic groups, older workers, men...
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Strategy research often aims to empirically establish a causal relationship between an independent variable and a … dependent variable such as firm performance. For many important strategy research questions, however, traditional empirical … to be used more widely in strategy research, leveraging methodological innovations from other disciplines to address …
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estimates using two leading evaluation approaches. The most credible and straightforward evaluation method is a randomized …
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This document summarizes various tips for economics research papers. …
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