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Inequality and opportunity: the return of a neglected debate

Machin, Stephen; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

During this election period many Americans are feeling angry towards the very rich, especially those working in the financial sector, who helped cause the Great Recession and yet were bailed out by the government. Increases in inequality might be tolerable at a time of growing consumption for...

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Parental employment and children's body weight: Mothers, others, and mechanisms

Ziol-Guest, Kathleen M.; Dunifon, Rachel E.; Kalil, Ariel - In: Social Science & Medicine 95 (2013) C, pp. 52-59

work examines the mechanisms that might explain the relationships between parental employment and children's BMI. Our paper … children who were born during a period of dramatic increase in both childhood obesity and maternal employment. We find that the … other hand, are not significantly associated with these outcomes. Results suggest that, for children of highly …

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L'expertise judiciaire en Amérique du Nord

Labelle, Réal; Charrier, Emmanuel - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2006

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Variation in the interpretation of scientific integrity in community-based participatory health research

Kraemer Diaz, Anne E.; Spears Johnson, Chaya R.; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 97 (2013) C, pp. 134-142

Community-based participatory research (CBPR) has become essential in health disparities and environmental justice research; however, the scientific integrity of CBPR projects has become a concern. Some concerns, such as appropriate research training, lack of access to resources and finances,...

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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

competing explanations of the change in employment profiles: the decrease and delay in fertility, the increase in relative wages … of women to men, and the decline in child-care costs. We find that the decrease and delay in fertility and the decline in …

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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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