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Investigation of Easterlin Paradox in Developed Countries in the Context of Income Inequality
Full text linkIt has been questioned, time and again, if money or financial wellbeing can make us happy. Higher incomes and hence more freedom to live life the way that we want to live it, ought to yield happiness and wellbeing to people. However, this might not always be true, as shown by Richard Ainley Easterlin who found out, in his 1974 study that happiness changes with income both within and among nations, but in the long term, happiness and income are not significantly related. One such reason that offers an explanation to this contradictory phenonmenon is income inequality. This paper uses a purely empirical approach to examine the moderating effect that income inequality has for GDP per capita and happiness. More specifically, applying the Ordinary Least Squares Technique (OLS), Fixed Effects Regression on multiple panels, and by the use of an interaction term, this paper analyses the impact of income inequality on the relationship between GDP per capita and selfreported happiness. The findings of this paper reaffirm a significant and negative interactive effect of income inequality on the relationship between economic prosperity and happiness, in economically prosperous nations. Furthermore, it also shows the prevalence of a satiation point beyond which the relationship between economic prosperity and happiness disintegrates, as proposed by the Easterlin Paradox. Lastly, the study also suggests briefly, the policy implications based on the empirical findings in order to provide an insight into how income inequality may pose a threat to happiness and wellbeing of nations across the world
Pakistan’s Trade with India – Disaggregated Prospects: Muhammad Salahuddin Ayyubi and Qais Aslam
Full text linkThe study has made an attempt to expose the disaggregated dynamics Pakistan’s trade with India for a period of 2004-14 at HS-2 digit classification. It was observed that at least three quarters of Pakistan’s total exports to as well as imports from India comprised of top ten categories at HS-2 digit classification in each case. Nearly half of Pakistan’s bilateral trade with India comprised of edible vegetables, organic chemicals, plastics and its articles and cotton, almost consistently during 2004-14 and each of these four categories were also included in Pakistan’s top ten exports to and imports from India. The study further revealed that Indian exports to Pakistan enjoyed three times more complementarity in Pakistan than Pakistani exports enjoyed in India, consistently during this period. Pakistan’s imports from India were more than expectations in all the top ten categories though India possessed consistent revealed comparative advantage only in three of the top ten Pakistani imports from India
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
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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