Is Neighbourhood Destiny? Exploring the Link Between Neighbourhood Mobility and Student Outcomes

Sarah A Cordes, Amy Ellen Schwartz, Leanna Stiefel & Jeffrey Zabel
January 7, 2015

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Estimation and Identification of Change Points in Panel Models with Nonstationary or Stationary Regressors and Error Term

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

Letting Go of ‘Conventionalisation’: Family Labour on New Zealand Organic Dairy Farms

Rebecca L. Schewe
December 31, 2014

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Toward an Understanding of Productivity in Education

Jennifer King Rice & Amy Ellen Schwartz
December 31, 2014

Change and Persistence in the Economic Status of Neighborhoods and Cities

Stuart S. Rosenthal & Stephen L. Ross
December 31, 2014

Getting the Homework Done: Social Class and Parents’ Relationship to Homework

Amy Lutz & Lakshmi Jayaram
December 31, 2014

Adaptive Elastic Net GMM Estimation with Many Invalid Moment Conditions: Simultaneous Model and Moment Selection

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

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

Michael J. Williams
December 31, 2014

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

Brian Brege
December 31, 2014

Grandmothers at Work: Juggling Families and Jobs

Madonna Harrington Meyer
December 31, 2014

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The Realism Reader

Colin Elman
December 31, 2014

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

Dennis C. Rasmussen
December 31, 2014

Adventures in Academic Cartography: A Memoir

Mark Monmonier
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

Judicial Politics in Polarized Times

Thomas M. Keck
December 31, 2014

Jerusalem: Conflict and Cooperation in a Contested City

Miriam F. Elman
December 31, 2014

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

Tom Perreault
December 31, 2014

Why Mars: NASA and the Politics of Space Exploration

W. Henry Lambright
December 31, 2014

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

On a Preference-Based Instrumental Variable Approach in Reducing Unmeasured Confounding-by-Indication

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

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