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Developing a hypothetical multi-dimensional learning progression for the nature of matter
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2010-08)
We describe efforts toward the development of a hypothetical learning progression (HLP) for the growth of grade 7–14 students' models of the structure, behavior and properties of matter, as it relates to nanoscale science ...
Essays on Investment Dynamics under Market Imperfections
(2013)
Chapter 1 highlights a source of financial frictions associated with intangible assets. I construct new measures of firm-level intangible and physical assets using accounting information on U.S. public firms. I find that ...
Legacies in Organizations.
(2013)
Within some organizations, certain individuals seem to “live on” after they are gone. We often refer to these individuals as having a legacy, or a representation that endures in the collective memory of the group after ...
Perceiving and responding to challenges in job crafting at different ranks: When proactivity requires adaptivity
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2010-02)
We utilize a qualitative study of 33 employees in for-profit and non-profit organizations to elaborate theory on job crafting. We specifically focus on how employees at different ranks describe perceiving and adapting to ...
Inducing Employees to Leave: A Comparison of Four Severance Options
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2013-03)
This study examines the demographic, economic, and psychographic characteristics of 324 blue‐collar workers who were offered four options for either retirement or severance from the organization. Consistent with previous ...
Stock market crash and expectations of American households
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2011-04)
This paper utilizes data on subjective probabilities to study the impact of the stock market crash of 2008 on households' expectations about the returns on the stock market index. We use data from the Health and Retirement ...
Breaking rules for the right reasons? An investigation of pro‐social rule breaking
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2012-01)
Re‐conceptualization of scientific literacy in South Korea for the 21st century
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2011-08)
As the context of human life expands from personal to global, a new vision of scientific literacy is needed. Based on a synthesis of the literature and the findings of an online survey of South Korean and US secondary ...
Essays on Tax and Environmental Policies.
(2013)
This dissertation concerns tax and environmental policy issues central to recent policy-making debates. Chapter I is written with Kozo Kiyota and concerns the design of international tax systems. In 2009, Japan introduced ...
The validity of genes related to neurotransmitters as instrumental variables
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2011-08)