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Schwartz chapter on productivity in education published in Handbook of Research in Edu Finance & Pol

Jennifer King Rice & Amy Ellen Schwartz
December 31, 2014

WP 177 Adaptive Elastic Net GMM Estimation with Many Invalid Moment Conditions

Mehmet Caner, Xu Han & Yoonseok Lee
This paper develops the adaptive elastic net GMM estimator in large dimensional models with many possibly invalid moment conditions.
December 31, 2014

WP 178 Estimation and Identification of Change Points in Panel Models

Badi H. Baltagi, Chihwa Kao & Long Liu.
The authors prove consistency and derive the asymptotic distributions of the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) and First Difference (FD) estimators and that the FD estimator is robust for all cases considered.
December 31, 2014

Schewe study on family labour on New Zealand organic dairy farms published in Sociologia Ruralis

Rebecca L. Schewe
December 31, 2014

See related: Agriculture

Adventures in Academic Cartography: A Memoir

Mark Monmonier
December 31, 2014

Jerusalem: Conflict and Cooperation in a Contested City

Miriam F. Elman
December 31, 2014

See related: Middle East & North Africa

Democracy and Conflict Resolution: The Dilemmas of Israel’s Peacemaking

Miriam F. Elman

Using the contested theory of "democratic peace" as a foundational framework, the contributors explore the effects of a variety of internal influences on Israeli government practices related to Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking: electoral systems; political parties; identity; leadership; and social movements.

December 31, 2014

See related: Government, Middle East & North Africa

The Empire That Wasn't: The Grand Duchy of Tuscany’s Global Ambitions

Brian Brege
December 31, 2014

The Pragmatic Enlightenment: Recovering the Liberalism of Hume, Smith, Montesquieu, and Voltaire

Dennis C. Rasmussen
December 31, 2014

Minería, Agua y Justicia Social en los Andes: Experiencias Comparativas de Perú y Bolivia

Tom Perreault
December 31, 2014

Grandmothers at Work: Juggling Families and Jobs

Madonna Harrington Meyer
December 31, 2014

See related: Gender and Sex

Judicial Politics in Polarized Times

Thomas M. Keck
December 31, 2014

Law, Science, Liberalism and the American Way of Warfare: The Quest for Humanity in Conflict

Michael J. Williams
December 31, 2014

Why Mars: NASA and the Politics of Space Exploration

W. Henry Lambright
December 31, 2014

The Realism Reader

Colin Elman
December 31, 2014

Strategic Reassurance and Resolve: US-China Relations in the 21st Century

Michael O’Hanlon, James B. Steinberg
The authors propose a set of policy proposals to achieve a sustainable, relatively cooperative relationship between the two nations, based on the concept of providing mutual strategic reassurance in such key areas as nuclear weapons and missile defense, space and cyber operations, and military basing and deployments, while also demonstrating strategic resolve to protect vital national interests, including, in the case of the United States, its commitments to regional allies.
December 31, 2014

Lee article on reducing unmeasured confounding-by-indication published in Statistics in Medicine

Yun Li, Yoonseok Lee, Robert A. Wolfe, Hal Morgenstern, Jinyao Zhang, Friedrich K. Port & Bruce M. Robinson
December 28, 2014

Lopoo article on prescription contraception coverage published in Pop Research and Policy Review

Kerri M. Raissian & Leonard M. Lopoo
December 13, 2014

WP 174 Random Effects, Fixed Effects and Hausman’s Test for the Generalized Mixed Regressive Panel

Badi H. Baltagi & Long Liu
This paper gives random & fixed effects spatial 2-stage least squares estimators for the generalized mixed regressive spatial autoregressive panel data model.
November 30, 2014

WP 173 Firm-level Productivity Spillovers in China’s Chemical Industry

Badi H. Baltagi, Peter H. Egger & Michaela Kesina
This paper assesses the role of intra-sectoral spillovers in total factor productivity across Chinese producers in the chemical industry.
November 30, 2014

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