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Thriving at work: Toward its measurement, construct validation, and theoretical refinement
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2012-02)
The Climate Change Debate: A Greater and More Varied Voice from the Social Sciences
(2011-09)
As the debate on climate change in North America and Europe has heated up, the full voice of the social sciences, for the most part, has not been heard. Indeed, the relatively small representation of academic scholarship ...
Where is the Hospitality in Your Library?
(2011-11-01)
In the library and information fields, we spend countless hours focusing on making our world a more self-service environment. While many students and faculty much prefer to work independently and easily find resources on ...
Measuring and analyzing the non-monetary approach of multidimensional poverty by the basic needs in Togo
(2014-08-01)
This paper aims at measuring and analyzing the non-monetary aspect of multidimensional poverty by the basic needs according to the characteristics of household head. This is the first study in this matter in Togo and using ...
Do Borders Really Slash Trade? A Meta-Analysis
(2015-12-01)
National borders reduce trade, but most estimates of the border effect seem puzzlingly large. We show that major methodological innovations of the last decade combine to shrink the border effect to a mere 28% reduction in ...
Three Essays on Finance and Health Care Organizations.
(2013)
This dissertation includes three essays that examine the interactions between financial arrangements and product market outcomes in the health care industry theoretically and empirically. Integrating finance and health ...
On the Evolution of Collective Enforcement Institutions: Communities and Courts
(2014-02)
We analyze the capacities of communities (or social networks) and courts to secure cooperation among heterogeneous, impersonal transactors. We find that communities and courts are complementary in that they tend to support ...
Essays on the Interaction Effects of Policies Across Jurisdictions.
(2013)
This dissertation analyzes the theoretical and empirical effects of cross-border policy dynamics, specifically state level bottle deposit-redemption systems and international corporate income taxation. As governments can ...
Mother or motherland: Can a government have an impact on educational attainment of the population? Preliminary evidence from India
(2010-05-01)
In this paper, using data from the 61st round of the (Indian) National Sample Survey, we examine the relative impacts of personal-household and state-level characteristics (including government policy) on the likelihood ...