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Examining a "micro-macro paradox": did poverty really fall in the Union of Myanmar?
Shaffer, Paul - In: Journal of international development : the journal of … 27 (2015) 7, pp. 1332-1336
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400976
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A weighted multidimensional index of child well-being which incorporates children’s individual perceptions
Fernandes, Liliana; Mendes, Américo; Teixeira, Aurora A.C. - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2011
It has been a decade since a landmark piece of work on child well-being measurement based on a summary index was … regard to incorporating children’s own perspectives of their well-being, as well as involving them in the measurement process …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009643823
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A weighted multidimensional index of child well-being which incorporates children’s individual perceptions
Fernandes, Liliana; Mendes, Américo; Teixeira, Aurora - Faculdade de Economia e Gestão, Universidade Católica … - 2011
It has been a decade since a landmark piece of work on child well-being measurement based on a summary index was … regard to incorporating children’s own perspectives of their well-being, as well as involving them in the measurement process …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009023795
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Food as ideology : measurement and validation of locavorism
Reich, Brandon J.; Beck, Joshua T.; Price, John - In: Journal of consumer research : JCR ; an … 45 (2018) 4, pp. 849-868
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To measure is to know? : a comparative analysis of gender indices
Staveren, Irene van - In: Review of social economy : publication of the … 71 (2013) 3, pp. 339-372
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Skill formation and the trouble with child non-cognitive skill measures
Del Bono, Emilia; Kinsler, Josh; Pavan, Ronni - 2020
Research on child skill formation and related policies typically rely on parent- reported measures of child non-cognitive skills. In this paper, we show that parental assessments of child non-cognitive skills are directly affected by the skills of the parents. We develop a dynamic model of child...
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Skill Formation and the Trouble with Child Non-Cognitive Skill Measures
Del Bono, Emilia; Kinsler, Josh; Pavan, Ronni - 2020
Research on child skill formation and related policies typically rely on parent- reported measures of child non-cognitive skills. In this paper, we show that parental assessments of child non-cognitive skills are directly affected by the skills of the parents. We develop a dynamic model of child...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322512
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A Note on the Importance of Normalizations in Dynamic Latent Factor Models of Skill Formation
Del Bono, Emilia; Kinsler, Josh; Pavan, Ronni - 2020
In this paper we highlight an important property of the translog production function for the identification of treatment effects in a model of latent skill formation. We show that when using a translog specification of the skill technology, properly anchored treatment effect estimates are...
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Measuring immigration policies: the IMPIC database
Helbling, Marc; Bjerre, Liv; Römer, Friederike; Zobel, … - In: European Political Science 16 (2017) 1, pp. 79-98
, conceptualisation, measurement and aggregation. Moreover, they are for the most part limited to individual policy fields or there is a …. Recently, there have been a series of studies that have proposed policy indices that allow for large-N analyses. It appears …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012693918
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The Immigration Policies in Comparison (IMPIC) Dataset: Technical Report V2
Berger, Valentin; Bjerre, Liv; Breyer, Magdalena; … - 2024
The Immigration Policies in Comparison (IMPIC) database includes data on migration policies for 33 OECD countries and the period 1980-2018. The dataset is presented in Helbling, Marc, Liv Bjerre, Friederike Römer and Malisa Zobel (2016) "Measuring Immigration Policies: The IMPIC-Database",...
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