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When making choices, individuals can follow alternative strategies or decision rules to the traditional compensatory utility maximization, raising doubts about to what extent these choices can be used to elicit preferences. In this paper... more
We analyze longitudinal data from a demographic surveillance area (DSA) in KwaZulu-Natal to examine the impact of parental death on children’s outcomes. The results show significant differences in the impact of mothers’ and fathers’... more
The government’s report, Opportunity for All: Tackling Poverty and Social Exclusion (Department of Social Security, 1999), identified poor health as one of the major problems associated with low income. However, much of the available... more
Criminological research has consistently uncovered a positive correlationbetween past and current criminal behavior. Continuity in offending overtime can be attributed to at least two processes—populationheterogeneity and state... more
Existing literature in the field of e-learning technology acceptance reflects a significant number of independent studies that primarily investigate the causal relationships proposed by technology acceptance theory, such as the technology... more
MatchIt: Nonparametric Preprocessing for Parametric Casual Inference, 2005b. URL http://gking.harvard.edu/matchit. R package version Ho, Imai, et al. ... Examining the impact of missing data on propensity score estimation in determining... more
En esta investigación se construye un listado de verificación (“checklist”) de características que permiten perfilar de forma diferenciada la manifestación de las distintas formas de Violencia Entre Parejas (VEP) en el hogar (Psicológica,... more
Changes in the terror alert level set by the Department of Homeland Security provide a shock to police presence in Washington, D.C. Using daily crime data during the period the terror alert system has been in place, we show that the level... more