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Replication Data for: "The Taliban's return to power: An empirical analysis of the Afghan peace negotiations of 2018–2020" Defence and Peace Economics
No full textThis replication package contains all the code necessary for data cleaning, as well as the transformed dataset relevant to the paper entitled "The Taliban's Return to Power: An Empirical Analysis of the Afghan Peace Negotiations of 2018–2020". Please note that data restrictions are in place; therefore, I am unable to share the raw ACLED data and Afghanistan districts layer. The raw ACLED data can be directly downloaded by any registered user from the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) at https://acleddata.com.
Detailed information on data cleaning is available within the shared codes, and the process is further explained in the main paper and the accompanying README file. This information should enable anyone with access to the ACLED dataset to computationally replicate all the results. However, the event study results using the raw data depend on the availability of Afghanistan's district shape layer from the National Information and Statistics Authority, which includes 400 districts
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Financing of Public Higher Education in Afghanistan: Public Opinion and Information Effects
Full text linkThe Afghan public higher education (HE) system absorbs less than one-fifth of government education spending and per student spending declines, while the student annual enrollment is rising. This contrast may trigger challenges and inevitable tradeoffs for the public universities to
encounter. Policies concerning the diversification of financing stream need attention; however, charging tuition in public institutions may confront robust public opposition due to its constitutional and historical features. We execute a randomized control trial (RCT) experiment to examine whether an information campaign contributes to lessening the opposition between citizen’s views and the contents of government policies concerning the financing of public HE. We utilize the linear probability model (LPM) to shed light on information effects empirically. Our
result suggests, that introducing tuition fees with supplemented information to citizens concerning charging tuition could mitigate citizen’s opposition. Besides, nighttime school tuition narrative as information treatment interventions concerning charging tuition fees for daytime
undergraduate programs might be more effective compared to other forms of information concerning financing policies
Effect of a gender quota on women's access to education in Afghanistan
No full textAffirmative action is a promising
solution to the crucial challenge of bridging the gap in
women's access to higher education in low- and
middle-income countries (LMICs). This paper uses public
universities' matriculation data from 2013–2018 and
difference-in-differences estimators to examine the causal
impact of a gender quota on women's educational
opportunities in Afghanistan. The quota increased the
proportion of women in the treated concentration group by
nine percentage points and the share of women from low
socio-economic status by three percentage points. The
expansion was associated with a 0.04-unit decline in the
average score ratio of female-to-male applicants, driven by
a reduction in the score threshold needed for women's
admission. The effects were condensed in competitive
concentrations, where the overall share of women and women
with low SES increased by 17 and four percentage points,
respectively. The findings suggest that affirmative action
is a viable option for addressing the gender gap in fragile settings
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
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