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The Women in Economics Index - Monitoring women economists' representation in leadership positions
No full textData on women economists' representation in various leadership positions across the private, public and academic sector 2019 to 202
Essays on adult education in Germany
Full text linkLifelong learning and adult education are central to adapt to ageing societies, globalization, and automatization. At the same time, causal analyses are scarce in the realm of adult education, mainly because of the voluntary nature of participation and a paucity of high-quality data. After a short motivation and an overview of each chapter in the first chapter, the four essays of this dissertation contribute to understanding institutional, pecuniary, and non-pecuniary aspects of nonformal adult education in Germany.
Chapter 2 analyzes whether potential beneficiaries of an early retirement program in Germany voluntarily engage in nonformal adult education. We find that adult education activities increase substantially more after the reform in relatively old counties, i.e., counties with a higher share of older men, compared to relatively young counties, i.e., counties with a higher share of younger men. This increase in participation is observed almost exclusively in cognitively demanding courses, mostly work-related courses. Our results support the notion of an intrinsic willingness of older workers to acquire skills independent of financial incentives.
Chapter 3 explores how the most important provider of language courses in Germany, adult education centers (VHS), adapted their course supply of "German as a foreign language" (Deutsch als Fremdsprache, DAF) courses to the refugee wave of 2015/2016. Our results show that VHS reacted quickly and strongly to the refugee influx by massively increasing the number of DAF courses. However, this remarkable expansion came at the cost of offering relatively fewer other courses. In addition, we find that VHS with more resources and more prior experience in organizing DAF courses scaled up their DAF course supply more strongly, which implies path dependency. If equal (learning) opportunities across regions are a societal goal, these inequalities can be seen as problematic.
Chapters 4 and 5 make a methodical and a topical contribution to the research on adult education. First, we address empirical challenges in the evaluation of wider benefits from work-related training by transferring a flexible econometric framework from the labor economics literature into the literature that evaluates wider benefits of adult education. We improve upon existing studies by combining the regression-adjusted difference-in-differences (DiD) matching approach with entropy balancing in a multiple event study setting. Second, we apply this framework to identify the effects of work-related training on measures of civic/political, cultural, and social participation (Ch. 4), as well as life satisfaction, worries, and health (Ch. 5). We find that participation in work-related training yields positive non-pecuniary returns in the form of higher civic/political and cultural participation. Those increases do not crowd out social participation. Our results also show that work-related training decreases worries but does not affect satisfaction or (subjective) health. Lastly, Chapter 4 also provides updated estimations on the pecuniary returns to (work-related) adult education
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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