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Replication issues in social experiments: lessons from US labor market programs

Barnow, Burt S.; Greenberg, David - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 46 (2013) 3, pp. 239-252

"When evaluating a pilot or demonstration program, there are risks from drawing inferences from a single test. This paper reviews the experiences of replication efforts from demonstrations using randomized controlled trials in the initial evaluation and the replications. Although replications of...

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An accounting exercise for the shift in life-cycle employment profiles of married women born between 1940 and 1960

Buttet, Sebastien; Schoonbroodt, Alice - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 46 (2013) 3, pp. 253-271

"Life-cycle employment profiles of married women born between 1940 and 1960 shifted upwards and became flatter. We calibrate a dynamic life-cycle model of employment decisions of married women to assess the quantitative importance of three competing explanations of the change in employment...

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Patterns of contraceptive use among Mexican-origin women

White, Kari; Potter, Joseph E. - In: Demographic Research 28 (2013) 41, pp. 1199-1212

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An examination of black/white differences in the rate of age-related mortality increase

Fenelon, Andrew - In: Demographic Research 29 (2013) 17, pp. 441-472

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Comparative Perspectives in Employment Relations Research

Frege, Carola - In: Industrielle Beziehungen - Zeitschrift fuer Arbeit, … 20 (2013) 4, pp. 285-303

This article discusses the historical trajectories of employment research in the U.S. and Germany. Both countries exemplify very different research traditions, which have their origins in the 19th and early 20th century and are shaped not only by the field of inquiry (different national...

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From Boom to Bust?: A Critical Look at US Shale Gas Projections

Richter, Philipp M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013

numerical simulation. In a world of declining US shale gas production after 2015, natural gas consumption outside the USA is …

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Ideology and positive economic beliefs: some experimental and survey evidence

Austin, D. Andrew; Wilcox, Nathaniel T. - In: Global Business and Economics Review 9 (2007) 2/3, pp. 271-285

Disagreements about economic policy stem not just from differences in normative values, but also from differences in beliefs about which outcomes are likely. We review a selection of survey work showing this. We also report on our own work with US and Russian research subjects, which employs a...

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Finance and politics in the USA: From National City Bank to Citigroup — An American bank or a world bank?

Zumello, Christine - In: Society and Economy 29 (2007) December, pp. 325-342

The banking landscape in the USA has been shaped by various political and economic forces throughout the years, and the … increased number of mergers and acquisitions in the banking sector in the USA have in the last decade clearly contributed to the … the domestic political scene in the USA, managed to outweigh politics or rather to free itself from political …

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Die politischen Kosten des Rechtsstaats

Scharpf, Fritz W. - Walter Eucken Institut, Freiburg, Germany

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Europeans Work to Live and Americans Live to Work (Who is Happy to Work More: Americans or Europeans?)

Okulicz-Kozaryn, Adam - In: Journal of Happiness Studies 12 (2011) 2, pp. 225-243

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