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Replication Data for: Entrepreneurship Education and Teacher Training in Rwanda
No full textThis package contains replication data and code for: "Entrepreneurship Education and Teacher Training in Rwanda". The data include raw, intermediate and analysis datasets from baseline and endline surveys. Baseline data was collected prior to the intervention at the beginning of the 2016 and endline survey data was collected in 2018. The files also contain Rwanda census data from 2012. The code, produced in Stata, contains both cleaning and analysis code for replicating the results of the paper. For further details on the data or how to run the code, please see the readme
A la vanguardia del desarrollo : reflexiones desde el Banco Mundial
No full textAt the Frontlines of Development former
World Bank country directors recount their experiences, both
as managers of the World Bank's programs in global
economic hotspots of the 1990s as well as throughout their
careers in development economics. These essays detail, among
many stories of development in the 1990s, how China and
India lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty, while
Russia collapsed; how Bosnia and Herzegovina and Mozambique
remade their war-ravaged economies; and how Thailand,
Turkey, and Argentina fell into financial crisis. These
remarkable stories, told in first-person by the country
directors who were there to witness them, provide candid
assessments of development in the 1990s-what succeeded, what
failed, and what lessons emerged
Replication Data for: Improving Access and Quality in Early Childhood Development Programs: Experimental Evidence from The Gambia
No full textReplication data and code for Blimpo, Carneiro, Jervis, and Pugatch, "Improving Access and Quality in Early Childhood Development Programs: Experimental Evidence from The Gambia.
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
Keeping the Promise of Social Security in Latin America
No full textNations around the world (both large and
small, rich and poor) are engaged in debate over how to
reform their social security systems and care for the aged.
For many countries this debate requires speculation on
hypothetical scenarios, but in Latin America a rich body of
experience on social security reform has been accumulating
for more than a decade (for Chile, more than two decades).
This report, entitled, Keeping the Promise of Social
Security in Latin America, takes stock of those reforms,
evaluates their successes and failures, and considers the
lessons that can be drawn for the future of pension policy
in the region. The authors draw on a series of background
papers and surveys commissioned specifically for this
inquiry, as well as existing research conducted by
themselves and other pension experts. In the debate on
pension reform there is no orthodoxy, as reflected in major
differences of opinion among leading experts. Despite more
than a decade of experience with pension reform in Latin
America, although undoubtedly a major step forward, reforms
are still works in progress. This report furthers enrich
the policy dialogue that is of crucial importance to the
future of the region
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