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Abstract This is a personal reflection from my experience meeting Ronald H. Coase in October 2012 for a 2-day interview … together with Ning Wang. Our interview was one of the world’s last glimpses of Coase’s life and contributions, and one that … conveys Coase’s contributions as both a true scholar and a gentleman. In addition to the published interview (S. Terjesen & N …
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Ambassador Andrew Young talks about the major policy issues of the day and how nonprofits can be more effective in the policy process and in addressing social needs.
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To the best of our knowledge, most of the few methodological studies which analyze the impact of faked interviews on survey results are based on ?artificial fakes? generated by project students in a ?laboratory environment?. In contrast, panel data provide a unique opportunity to identify data...
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There is a concern that ordered responses on health questions may differ across populations or even across subgroups of a population. This reporting heterogeneity may invalidate group comparisons and measures of health inequality. This paper proposes a test for differential reporting in ordered...
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Public opinion influences politicians, and therefore influences public policy decisions. What are the roles of self-interest, knowledge, and ideology in public opinion formation? And how do people learn about economic issues? Using a new, specially-designed survey, we find that most respondents...
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After reviewing the literature on item non-response we focus on three issues: First, is there significant heterogeneity in item non-response across financial questions and in the association of covariates with item non-response across outcomes? Second, can the informational value of surveys be...
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Statistische Daten sind im allgemeinen - gemessen an idealtypischen Erhebungsbedingungen - nicht fehlerfrei, insbesondere können sie durch die Art, wie sie erhoben werden, beeinflusst werden ("Erhebungsartefakte"). Interviewereffekte spielen in diesem Zusammenhang in der Literatur eine...
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always taken into consideration adequately by the rich nations might be given in an interview with Prof. Frederick T. Sai …
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Every year the number of fairs and exhibitions at home and abroad is increasing. By no means is this only an expression of the countries' and cities' "prestige thinking". Exhibition and fair policies are playing an important part for the improvement of market transparency, easier establishing of...
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