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SOCIAL CAPITAL AND HOUSEHOLD INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS: EVIDENCE FROM MICHIGAN AND ILLINOIS
Get PDFSocial capital is a resource increasingly recognized as having important economic and social consequences. Robison and Siles (1999) examined some of these consequences at the U.S. state level and this study extends their efforts. Their 1999 study found important connections between the distributions of social capital and the distributions of household incomes. This study asks if the relationships between social capital and household incomes discovered at the state level are also present at the community level.Consumer/Household Economics, Institutional and Behavioral Economics,
The relative importance of selfishness and social capital motives in explaining recycling beahviors
No full text"Based on previous studies on social capital, this thesis aims to further understand social capital motives and their application in recycling behaviors in a university community."--From abstract.Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State University. Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics, 2013Includes bibliographical references (pages 62-64
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Measuring hope : an empirical approach with validation in rural Myanmar
No full textDevelopment economists have recently begun considering the role of hope in determining various observed behaviors relating to both production and consumption decisions of the poor. Although several papers have examined how the concepts of hope and aspirations may fit into existing economic theories, empirical studies have yet to validate a reliable approach to measure hope. This paper seeks to fill this gap by adapting an empirical approach to measure hope, developed by psychologists, to the context of rural Myanmar. In this paper, a detailed description of the survey instruments of this measurement approach is presented along with several validity tests. These tests include: An investigation of construct validity, which examines how educational attainment, gender, and age correlate with hope and aspirations. A factor analysis testing for conceptual validity, which examines how hope relates to several related, but distinct, concepts such as self-efficacy and locus of control. And an examination of empirical validity by testing how measurements of hope correlate with perceptions of household welfare and the provision of basic necessities. This study finds that, with sufficient effort adapting survey instruments to a local context, the measurement approach developed by psychologists performs relatively well in rural Myanmar. Although future research could make various improvements, this study provides the necessary foundation for viable and reliable empirical measurements of hope in developing countries.Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State University. Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics, 2016Includes bibliographical references (pages 81-86
Chestnut Grower Inc : a case study on the importance of social capital in the success of entrepreneurial ventures
Get PDFEntrepreneurial ventures often require the active participation of groups of entrepreneurs or multiple stakeholders to be successful. This is particularly true in the context of nascent agri-food industries. One type of group that is common in agriculture and food industries is that of a cooperative. Cooperatives allow members to pool resources to achieve economies of scale and scope to take advantage of potential market opportunities. However, such cooperatives also face significant barriers, particularly in terms of the coordination of members. One such cooperative that was formed to exploit a market opportunity is CGI (Chestnut Growers Inc.). This cooperative was formed with the goal of raising awareness of chestnut products to help farmers expand their consumer base and realize higher prices for their chestnuts. Many threats to the group's profitability exist including inherent risk factors such as frost and a lack of full cooperation from group members. Despite these existing risk factors, CGI has the potential to succeed based upon the group members' strong attachment value for the cooperative (and therefore willingness to donate human capital to see the group succeed). Therefore the group members' social capital can be seen as an intangible asset and a source of competitive advantage for the cooperative.Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State University. Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, 2012Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-122
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
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