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Sascha O. Becker – Ludger Woessmann (2009) Tévedett-e Max Weber?
Full text linkMax Weber szerint a protestáns régiók magasabb gazdasági teljesítménye elsősorban a protestáns munkamorálnak köszönhető. Két közgazdász, Sascha O. Becker és Ludger Woesmann, Weber hipotézisét felülvizsgálva, illetve továbbgondolva, egy alternatív teóriát nyújt a protestáns, illetve nem protestáns (ebben az esetben katolikus) régiók gazdaságának teljesítménybeli különbségeiben mutatkozó eltérések magyarázatára.
„Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 124(2): 531–59
Sascha O. Becker – Ludger Woessmann (2009): Tévedett-e Max Weber? = „Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant
Full text linkMax Weber szerint a protestáns régiók magasabb gazdasági teljesítménye elsősorban a
protestáns munkamorálnak köszönhető. Két közgazdász, Sascha O. Becker és Ludger Woesmann, Weber hipotézisét felülvizsgálva, illetve továbbgondolva, egy alternatív teóriát
nyújt a protestáns, illetve nem protestáns (ebben az esetben katolikus) régiók gazdaságának teljesítménybeli különbségeiben mutatkozó eltérések magyarázatára
Wie das Habsburger Reich heute in den osteuropäischen Verwaltungen sichtbar ist
Full text linkViele Teile Europas wurden über Jahrhunderte hinweg von Großreichen beherrscht. Haben diese Imperien nach ihrer formellen Auflösung ein Vermächtnis im Verhältnis der Bürger zu ihren staatlichen Institutionen hinterlassen? Sascha O. Becker, University of Warwick, Katrin Boeckh, Osteuropa-Institut Regensburg, Christa Hainz und Ludger Wößmann untersuchen, wie sich die Zugehörigkeit zum Habsburger Reich in Osteuropa noch heute auf das Vertrauen der Bürger in staatliche Institutionen und Korruption auswirkt. Vergleicht man Menschen, die heute im selben Land leben, aber diesseits und jenseits der längst verschwundenen Habsburg-Grenze, so haben diejenigen, die auf ehemaligem Habsburger Gebiet leben, mehr Vertrauen in Gerichte und Polizei. Es ist auch weniger wahrscheinlich, dass sie Bestechungsgelder für diese öffentlichen Dienste zahlen. Dies belegt, dass das institutionelle Erbe nicht nur Präferenzen prägt, sondern auch die tatsächlichen Interaktionen zwischen Bürgern und Staat beeinflusst.
mhbounds - Sensitivity Analysis for Average Treatment Effects
Full text linkMatching has become a popular approach to estimate average treatment effects. It is based on the conditional independence or unconfoundedness assumption. Checking the sensitivity of the estimated results with respect to deviations from this identifying assumption has become an increasingly important topic in the applied evaluation literature. If there are unobserved variables which affect assignment into treatment and the outcome variable simultaneously, a hidden bias might arise to which matching estimators are not robust. We address this problem with the bounding approach proposed by Rosenbaum (2002), where mhbounds allows the researcher to determine how strongly an unmeasured variable must influence the selection process in order to undermine the implications of the matching analysis.matching, treatment effects, sensitivity analysis, unobserved heterogeneity
Unemployment, reliance on factory jobs and low income explain the Brexit vote
Full text linkExposure to EU immigration and trade explains very little of the vote to leave, write Sascha O. Becker, Thiemo Fetzer and Dennis Nov
Luther and the Girls: Religious Denomination and the Female Education Gap in 19th Century Prussia
Full text linkMartin Luther urged each town to have a girls’ school so that girls would learn to read the Gospel, evoking a surge of building girls’ schools in Protestant areas. Using county- and town-level data from the first Prussian census of 1816, we show that a larger share of Protestants decreased the gender gap in basic education. This result holds when using only the exogenous variation in Protestantism due to a county’s or town’s distance to Wittenberg, the birthplace of the Reformation. Similar results are found for the gender gap in literacy among the adult population in 1871.gender gap, education, Protestantism
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
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