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Analyzing Regression-Discontinuity Designs With Multiple Assignment Variables

Wong, Vivian C.; Steiner, Peter M.; Cook, Thomas D. - In: Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics 38 (2013) 2, pp. 107-141

In a traditional regression-discontinuity design (RDD), units are assigned to treatment on the basis of a cutoff score and a continuous assignment variable. The treatment effect is measured at a single cutoff location along the assignment variable. This article introduces the multivariate...

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Short training for welfare recipients in Germany: which types work?

Kopf, Eva - In: International Journal of Manpower 34 (2013) June, pp. 486-486

Purpose – Various types of short training programmes exist in Germany. This article aims to evaluate short training courses for welfare recipients and to detect which programme type works best with respect to different outcome indicators. Design/methodology/approach – The author measures the...

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Lending and Credit Monitoring Principles

IOAN, Viorica; STRATULAT, Angelica - In: Risk in Contemporary Economy (2012), pp. 423-428

The results of a bank’s activities depend to a significant extent on the quality of the credit portfolio that it holds, as well as on the credit tracking and control system. The purpose and functioning of such inter-banking systems differs from one bank to another. Loans require an...

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Evaluating innovative processes in french firms: Methodological proposition for firm innovation capacity evaluation

Boly, Vincent; Morel, Laure; Assielou, N’Doli Guillaume; … - In: Research Policy 43 (2014) 3, pp. 608-622

Measuring innovation processes is a major concern for academics and firm managers. This study proposes an innovation capacity (IC) measure framework based on a set of 15 innovation management practices. Every practice is subdivided into multiple criteria which are directly observable phenomena...

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Using play to help families learn: evaluation of Trafford Hall’s Playing 2 Learn programme 2008-11

Lane, Laura; Richardson, Liz - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

The report describes the results of a three-year evaluation by LSE Housing and Communities of a family learning … families attending. The weekends used creative, low cost play activities to promote play-based learning. The evaluation used … activities and continuing to use them up to two years after attending the weekends. To the extent that the evaluation was able to …

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Effect of Conflict on Dietary Energy Supply: Evidence from Cote d'Ivoire

Dabalen, Andrew L.; Paul, Saumik - Centre for Research in Economic Development and …

In this paper we estimate the causal effects of conflict on dietary energy supply in Côte d’Ivoire. To identify the true impact of conflict, we use prewar and post-war household data bracketing the conflict period and the spatial variation in the prevalence of conflict between the North and...

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Evaluación y gestión pública innovadora

Feinstein, Osvaldo Néstor - In: EKONOMIAZ 80 (2012) 02, pp. 138-155

This paper sets out to show the role of assessment in innovative public-sector management in the context of great uncertainty and limited innovation implicit in the «New Pubic-Sector Management». It argues that instead of trying to anticipate the processes that lead to turbulence (processes...

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A fuzzy model of customer satisfaction index in e-commerce

Liu, Xiaohong; Zeng, Xianyi; Xu, Yang; Koehl, Ludovic - In: Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (MATCOM) 77 (2008) 5, pp. 512-521

Customer satisfaction index (CSI) is an important concept for evaluating the quality of service in e-commerce. It permits to evaluate the validity of an e-commerce operation from the point of view of consumers. In this paper, we present a model of CSI in e-commerce using fuzzy techniques and...

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Floating Biological Assets and Agricultural Produce Accounting

Suk, Leonid; Suk, Petro - In: Accounting and Finance (2014) 2, pp. 71-78

The Article provides grounds for the proposal of keeping biological assets accounts, their evaluation and reflection in … evaluation of biological assets and agricultural produce enables the display of subjectivity in accounting, gives way to …

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Evaluation Experts Training Arrangements

Zayats, Viktor; Zayats, Roman - In: Accounting and Finance (2014) 2, pp. 155-159

markets, evaluation activity economic character and content the appropriateness of introducing a separate subject of … 'Evaluation Activity' to train specialists and masters at higher educational institutions on 'Economy and Entrepreneurship' major …

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