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Beyond the Methods Fetish: Toward a Humanizing Pedagogy by Bartolome, Lilia I

“…Academic achievement of historically oppressed groups is affected by the societal power relations reproduced in schools and by the "deficit" perspective…”
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Consistent Covariance Matrix Estimation with Spatially Dependent Panel Data by Driscoll, John C., Kraay, Aart C.

“…Many panel data sets encountered in macroeconomics, international economics, regional science, and finance are characterized by cross-sectional or "spatial"…”
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Mixed Logit with Repeated Choices: Households' Choices of Appliance Efficiency Level by Revelt, David, Train, Kenneth

“…Mixed logit models, also called random-parameters or error-components logit, are a generalization of standard logit that do not exhibit the restrictive…”
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How Taxing is Corruption on International Investors? by Wei, Shang-Jin

“…This paper studies the effect of corruption on foreign direct investment. The sample covers bilateral investment from twelve source countries to 45 host…”
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Measuring Business Cycles: Approximate Band-Pass Filters for Economic Time Series by Baxter, Marianne, King, Robert G.

“…Band-pass filters are useful in a wide range of economic contexts. This paper develops a set of approximate band-pass filters and illustrates their application…”
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Understanding and validity in qualitative research by Maxwell, Joseph A

“…Details the philosophical and practical dimensions of five types of validity used in qualitative research: descriptive, interpretive, theoretical,…”
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The Generalized Dynamic-Factor Model: Identification and Estimation by Forni, Mario, Hallin, Marc, Lippi, Marco, Reichlin, Lucrezia

“…This paper proposes a factor model with infinite dynamics and nonorthogonal idiosyncratic components. The model, which we call the generalized dynamic-factor…”
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Quadratic Engel Curves and Consumer Demand by Banks, James, Blundell, Richard, Lewbel, Arthur

“…This paper presents a model of consumer demand that is consistent with the observed expenditure patterns of individual consumers in a long time series of…”
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The Color of Success: African-American College Student Outcomes at Predominantly White and Historically Black Public Colleges and Universities by Allen, Walter R

“…Data from survey of 872 African-American students at predominantly white colleges and 928 at historically black colleges suggest that academic achievement is…”
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Talking about Race, Learning about Racism: The Application of Racial Identity Development Theory in the Classroom by Tatum, Beverly Daniel

“…Inclusion of race-related content in a college course identified three sources of resistance to learning about racism: race as taboo topic; myth of…”
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A Dialogue: Culture, Language, and Race by Freire, Paulo, Macedo, Donaldo P

“…A dialogue between Paulo Freire and Donaldo Macedo addresses current criticisms of Freire along gender and race lines, challenges misinterpretations of his…”
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Why Doesn't this Feel Empowering? Working Through the Repressive Myths of Critical Pedagogy by ELLSWORTH, E

“…Elizabeth Ellsworth finds that critical pedagogy, as represented in her review of the literature,has developed along a highly abstract and Utopian line which…”
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Citation Frequency and the Value of Patented Inventions by Harhoff, Dietmar, Narin, Francis, Scherer, F. M., Vopel, Katrin

“…Through a survey, private economic value estimates were obtained on 964 inventions made in the United States and Germany and on which German patent renewal…”
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Inequality and Crime by Kelly, Morgan

“…This paper considers the relationship between inequality and crime using data from urban counties. The behavior of property and violent crime are quite…”
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Levels of comparison in educational studies: Different insights from different literatures and the value of multilevel analyses by Bray, Mark, Thomas, R. Murray

“…Research in the field of comparative education has traditionally focused on studies across world regions and countries. In this article the authors argue that…”
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Has the U.S. Economy Become More Stable? A Bayesian Approach Based on a Markov-Switching Model of the Business Cycle by Kim, Chang-Jin, Nelson, Charles R.

“…We hope to answer three questions: Has there been a structural break in postwar U.S. real GDP growth towards stabilization? If so, when? What is the nature of…”
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Environmental Regulation and Innovation: A Panel Data Study by Jaffe, Adam B., Palmer, Karen

“…In a 1991 essay in Scientific American, Michael Porter suggested that environmental regulation may have a positive effect on the performance of domestic firms…”
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Multiple Trend Breaks and the Unit-Root Hypothesis by Lumsdaine, Robin L., Papell, David H.

“…Ever since Nelson and Plosser (1982) found evidence in favor of the unit-root hypothesis for 13 long-term annual macro series, observed unit-root behavior has…”
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Preventing and Producing Violence: A Critical Analysis of Responses to School Violence by Noguera, Pedro A

“…Disciplinary measures based on social control produce prison-like schools that remain unsafe. Coercive strategies disrupt learning and foster an environment of…”
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Why Do Banks Disappear? The Determinants of U.S. Bank Failures and Acquisitions by Wheelock, David C., Wilson, Paul W.

“…This paper seeks to identify the characteristics that make individual U.S. banks more likely to fail or be acquired. We use bank-specific information to…”
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