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RSS evidenceEvidence Aggregation in Hierarchical Evidential Reasoning
White Paper Several reasoning tasks need to scale over the volume of evidence and the entities of interest. A technique used by statisticians is to represent a collection of evidence by the sufficient statistics of the data. [15 Sep 2007]
Educational Attainment and Family Gaps in Women's Wages: Evidence From Five Industrialized Countries
White Paper Cross-national analysis of "family gaps" in women's wages provides clear evidence that wage penalties to motherhood vary significantly in magnitude across countries. This paper employs Luxembourg Income Study data for women in five industrialized... [24 Jun 2005]
On the Dynamics of Trade Diversion: Evidence from Four Trade Blocs
White Paper We argue that the data provide strong evidence of anticipatory sunk investments made to prepare for accession. This paper studies the dynamics of trade reorientation experienced when a country joins a regional trade bloc. [24 Feb 2004]
Looking for HRM/Union Substitution: Evidence From British Workplaces
White Paper This paper finds no evidence of HRM substitution operating in the hypothesised way of it replacing unions and concludes that increased HRM incidence does not seem to be an important factor underpinning union decline in Britain. [20 May 2005]
Monetary and Financial Integration: Evidence From Portuguese Borrowing Patterns
White Paper This extends the evidence in the literature that overall international borrowing is facilitated by the creation of a monetary union, and raises the issue of financial diversion. The results are shown to survive a wide variety of robustness checks... [14 Jul 2005]
The Role of Perceived Opportunity in Fertility Choice: Evidence From Latin America
White Paper The evidence is interpreted to suggest that increasing economic opportunity in Latin America should be accompanied by institutions that provide social protection in order to promote further decreases in fertility toward the replacement rate. [19 Jul 2005]
Fixed Capital Adjustment: Is Latin America Different? Evidence from the Colombian and Mexican Manufacturing Sectors
White Paper Although duration models do not provide strong evidence for the presence of substantial fixed costs, nonparametrical adjustment function estimates reveal the presence of irreversibilities in investment. [24 Feb 2004]
Evidence of Excess Returns on Firms that Issue or Repurchase Equity
White Paper There is fairly abundant evidence that stock returns contain a predictable component. At the aggregate level Fama and French (1988) and Poterba and Summers (1988) find that stock returns are serially correlated.This paper presents evidence that the... [24 Feb 2004]
"Evidence of misconduct": What's up at Dell?
News Dell's internal investigation into accounting problems has found "evidence of misconduct", the company said, and therefore it will delay the release of its annual report. Dell said in a press release: "The Audit Committee's investigation has... [30 Mar 2007]
Army uses PC forensics in Iraq evidence hunt
News The unit is responsible for recovering hidden or erased files and emails from all types of electronic storage media in order to build a catalogue of evidence that can stand up in court. LIAG's Major John Pringle said in a statement: "Any evidence... [30 Sep 2003]
From Welfare to Work: What the Evidence Shows
White Paper Now that five years have passed since the 1996 reforms were enacted, the evidence shows that while much success has been attained, there are remaining concerns that Congress should debate during reauthorization. [19 Jul 2005]
The Social Benefits of Education: New Evidence on an Old Question
White Paper This paper summarizes recent evidence on the social benefits of education. However, until recently empirical evidence on the magnitudes of such benefits has been lacking. In the past, many observers and policy makers have suggested that investing... [26 May 2005]
Fresh evidence could end Java court battle next week
News The Java battle between Sun Microsystems and Microsoft could be over as early as next week thanks to the appearance of previously unseen evidence. The hearing for this injunction concluded on 10 September and the court's special advisor retired to... [09 Nov 1998]
Asset Pricing with Heterogeneous Consumers and Limited Participation: Empirical Evidence
White Paper These results provide evidence of limited capital market participation. The Euler equations of consumption are tested on the household consumption of nondurable and services, reconstructed from the CEX database. [24 Feb 2004]
Litigation and SAS: Some DOs and DON'Ts (or, You Call That Evidence?)
White Paper This paper will cover some steps to follow when preparing SAS programs and data results as evidence for litigation, be it for discovery and/or trial. Some common errors will also be covered, and steps to guard against these errors will be covered. [30 Nov 2005]
