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Is Seeing Believing? How Americans and Germans Think about their Schools
Henderson, Michael B.; Lergetporer, Philipp; Peterson, … - 2015
What do citizens of the United States and Germany think about their schools and schoolpolicies? This paper offers the first broad comparison of public thinking on education in the twocountries. We carried out opinion surveys of representative samples of the German andAmerican adult populations...
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A Reproduction of "Do Female Officers Police Differently? Evidence from Traffic Stops" (American Journal of Political Science, 2021)
Yang, Dianyi; Huang, Leike - 2024
We reproduce Shoub, Kelsey, Katelyn E. Stauffer, and Miyeon Song (May 2021). "Do Female Officers Police Differently? Evidence from Traffic Stops," with alternative specifications and interpretation of the results. While our reproduction confirms that female police officers are less likely to...
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Gender differences in absence from work: Lessons from two world wars
Karlsson, Tobias - 2016
This paper traces the origins and early history of perceived gender differences in absenteeism in Great Britain and the USA. Among politicians and scholars, the problem was first articulated during World War I and reappeared as an issue of prime concern during World War II. The war efforts...
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Does it pay for US-based NGOs to go to war? Empirical evidence for Afghanistan and Iraq
Kim, Youngwan; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2013
-in-difference-in-differences approach, we analyze empirically whether the presence of US-based NGOs in Afghanistan and Iraq improved their chances of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323928
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A Social Survey on Asylum Seekers in and around Vienna in Fall 2015: Methodological Approach and Field Observations
Kohlenberger, Judith; Buber, Isabella; Rengs, Bernhard; … - 2016
In late 2015, a survey called DiPAS (Displaced persons in Austria survey) was carried out in and around Vienna to study the socio-demographic characteristics, values and attitudes of asylum seekers arriving in Austria in 2015. In that year, the number of persons seeking refuge in Europe was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011625360
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The End of Neoliberalism?
Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2003
This article was commissioned by the French newspaper Le Monde. The newspaper was one of several sponsors of an International Conference on Global Regulation, held at the University of Sussex on May 29-31, 2003, where we presented a plenary paper. As part of its sponsorship, Le Monde agreed to...
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A social accounting matrix for Iraq
Debowicz, Dario - In: Journal of Economic Structures 5 (2016) 24, pp. 1-19
SAM for Iraq. It delivers a unique and updated countrywide database for use in modeling and policy analysis and applies … this database to the empirical investigation into the expected effects of economic diversification in Iraq as stated in the … recent Iraq National Development Plan 2013-2017. …
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Bringing regional politics to the study of security sector reform: Army reform in Sierra Leone and Iraq
Almohad, Selman - 2019
Sierra Leone and Iraq from a regional angle, thereby illustrating the explanatory potential that regional politics could …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012056851
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Ethical and psychological factors in 5S and total productive maintenance
Kareem, Jamal Ahmed Hama; Amin, Othman Abdul-Qader Hama - In: Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management (JIEM) 10 (2017) 3, pp. 444-475
implementation of 5S and TPM at cement plants in Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Design/methodology/approach: The mixed methods represented …
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Post-conflict microfinance: assessment and policy notes for Iraq
Desai, Sameeksha - 2007
considerations for the case of Iraq. It presents important condi-tions of the post-conflict economy, and examines three critical … stability, economic demand and population stability are evaluated in the case of Iraq. Several other considerations are also …
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