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Replication data for: "The Credit Card Debt Puzzle: The Role of Preferences, Credit Access Risk, and Financial Literacy"
No full textGorbachev, Olga, and Luengo-Prado, Maria, (2019) "The Credit Card Debt Puzzle: The Role of Preferences, Credit Access Risk, and Financial Literacy." Review of Economics and Statistics 101:2, 294-309
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Three essays on flexible working arrangements and labour market outcomes
Full text linkThis thesis looks at the effects of flexible working arrangements on workers' labour
market outcomes. The particular type of flexible working arrangement analysed
in this thesis is called "flexitime". This is an arrangement which gives workers
the freedom to choose when to start and end their work. Flexitime provides
workers with a new way to cater to their domestic responsibilities and in turn
may reduce the costs of participating in the labour market. Therefore, it is closely
connected with workers' compensation structure, human capital accumulation
process, labour supply and job mobility. The effects of flexitime on workers'
labour market outcomes are analysed from three aspects: wage, labour supply,
and job mobility.
The first chapter gives an introduction and overview of the thesis. The second
chapter is a study on the compensating wage differentials associated with flexitime.
In general I do not find convincing evidence showing the existence of compensating
wage differentials associated with flexitime. One possible reason might
be that flexitime brings additional benefits to firms (such as increased productivity
and reduced turnover rate) so that firms may not necessarily need to reduce
actual wages in exchange for flexitime provision.In the third chapter, I develop a
model describing how flexitime may affect workers' labour supply decisions. The
main finding of the model is that flexitime will increase workers' labour supply
when the benefit associated with flexitime (increased child care production efficiency) is high relative to the cost of wage reduction (prediction 1). Meanwhile,
the model also predicts that flexitime causes high human capital workers to increase
their labour supply more than low human capital workers (prediction 2).
Empirical findings show that
flexitime is positively associated with working mothers'
labour market hours, which confirms model prediction 1. However, there is
arguably insufficient empirical evidence verifying model prediction 2. The fourth
chapter considers the relationship between flexitime and workers' job satisfaction
and job mobility. Flexitime is associated with high job satisfaction levels
for both male and female workers. It also reduces the probability of quitting for
female workers with young children. Male workers' job mobility decisions are not
significantly affected by flexitime. The fifth chapter gives the conclusion of the
thesis
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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