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Prenatal Exposure to PM 2.5 and Infant Birth Outcomes : Evidence from a Population-Wide Database

Jahanshahi, Babak; Johnston, Brian; McVicar, Duncan; … - 2022

. Using a population database of births in Northern Ireland linked to localised geographic information on pollution in …

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Ancestral Characteristics of Modern Populations

Giuliano, Paola - 2018

We construct a database, with global coverage, that provides measures of the cultural and environmental characteristics … database, including the underlying data, the procedure to produce the estimates, and the structure of the final data. We then …

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Six-Country Survey on Covid-19

Belot, Michèle - 2020

This paper presents a new data set collected on representative samples across 6 countries: China, South Korea, Japan, Italy, the UK and the four largest states in the US. The information collected relates to work and living situations, income, behavior (such as social-distancing, hand-washing...

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Using Behavioral Economic Experiments at a Large Motor Carrier : The Context and Design of the Truckers and Turnover Project

Burks, Stephen V. - 2015

The Truckers and Turnover Project is a statistical case study of a single firm and its employees which matches proprietary personnel and operational data to new data collected by the researchers to create a two-year panel study of a large subset of new hires. The project's most distinctive...

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World Income Inequality Databases : An Assessment of Wiid and Swiid

Jenkins, Stephen - 2014

This article assesses two secondary data compilations about income inequality – the World Income Inequality Database … (WIIDv2c), and the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIIDv4.0) which is based on WIID but with all observations …

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Appraising Cross-National Income Inequality Databases : An Introduction

Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2015

-based: CEPALSTAT, Income Distribution Database (IDD), LIS, PovcalNet, and Socio-Economic Database for Latin America and the Caribbean … (SEDLAC). Two are based on secondary sources: "All the Ginis" (ATG) and the World Income Inequality Database (WIID); and one … is generated entirely through multiple-imputation methods: the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIID …

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Big Data is a Big Deal But How Much Data Do We Need?

Askitas, Nikos - 2016

The more conservative among us believe that "Big Data is a fad that will soon fade out" and they may in fact be partially right. By contrast, others – especially those who dispassionately note that digitization is only now beginning to deliver its payload – may beg to differ. We argue that...

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The Cost Impact of Spam Filters : Measuring the Effect of Information System Technologies in Organizations

Caliendo, Marco; Clement, Michel; Papies, Dominik; … - 2021

More than 70% of global e-mail traffic consists of unsolicited and commercial direct marketing, also known as spam. Dealing with spam incurs high costs for organizations, prompting efforts to try to reduce spam-related costs by installing spam filters. Using modern econometric methods to reduce...

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A Multi-Method Approach to Identifying Norms and Normative Expectations within a Corporate Hierarchy : Evidence from the Financial Services Industry

Burks, Stephen V. - 2011

This paper presents the results of a field study at a large financial services firm that combines multiple methods, including two economic experiments, to measure ethical norms and their behavioral correlates. Standard survey questions eliciting ethical evaluations of actions in on-the-job...

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Usage of Financial Services in South Africa : Perceptions Matter

Kostov, Philip - 2013

This study investigates the access to and usage of financial services in South Africa. Financial services are categorised in three types namely; general accounts and services, investment/savings and insurance/assurance. Taking into account the interactions between usage of different types of...

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