Sentences with phrase «economics professors used»

The research carried out by two economics professors used market research data from Dun & Bradstreet, as well as numbers from the U.S. Census, to examine how male - and female - owned businesses are distributed geographically within 35 metropolitan regions.

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While it doesn't stand alone as a negative force, market pundits like John Hussman — a former economics professor who is president of the Hussman Investment Trust — have used it in tandem with other breadth indicators to make bearish proclamations.

When a couple of Canadian economists published research (pdf) last December showing that using an alternative methodology yields much better productivity growth rates, StatsCan was quick to reject it, even though one of the authors, Erwin Diewert, a professor at the University of British Columbia's Vancouver School of Economics, is widely regarded as one of the world's finest brains in the field.

Dr. Anastasia Shcherbakova, clinical assistant professor of finance and managerial economics in the Naveen Jindal School of Management, said the researchers used the 2011 Fukushima crisis in Japan as a natural experiment to evaluate responses of U.S. and European investors to a shifting view of nuclear power.

Bisakha Sen, Ph.D., associate professor of health care policy at UAB, used health behavior data for whites and blacks from Alabama and Mississippi taken from the national Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and took a method used in economics to analyze gender wage disparities.

«Our results indicate that this simple intervention could be an effective and scalable approach to use the design of electronic health records to increase the rate of flu vaccinations, which are estimated to prevent millions of flu cases and tens of thousands of related hospitalizations every year,» said study lead author Mitesh S. Patel, MD, MBA, MS, an assistant professor of Medicine and Health Care Management in Penn's Perelman School of Medicine and The Wharton School, a staff physician at the Crescenz VA Medical Center, and director of the Penn Medicine Nudge Unit, whose work is supported by the Penn Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics.

But Nikolaus and Brenna Ellison, an assistant professor of agricultural and consumer economics at U of I conducted a study to first establish which consumers already use spices and herbs, and to determine how they use them.

«These empirical challenges have meant that existing research has largely focused on documenting and observing the intergenerational correlations in various types of welfare use,» said Magne Mogstad, assistant professor of economics.

«Using behavioral economics approaches offers the potential of generating truly innovative approaches for promoting healthy behavior,» said co-author Kevin G. Volpp, MD, PhD, professor of Medicine and Health Care Management and director of the Penn Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Eeconomics approaches offers the potential of generating truly innovative approaches for promoting healthy behavior,» said co-author Kevin G. Volpp, MD, PhD, professor of Medicine and Health Care Management and director of the Penn Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral EconomicsEconomics.

He and fellow researchers, Claes Fornell, Donald C. Cook Distinguished Professor Emeritus at U-M, and Forrest Morgeson, professor in MSU's master of science in marketing research, determined that an intangible measure, such as customer satisfaction, could likely supplant measures that have been used in finance and economics forProfessor Emeritus at U-M, and Forrest Morgeson, professor in MSU's master of science in marketing research, determined that an intangible measure, such as customer satisfaction, could likely supplant measures that have been used in finance and economics forprofessor in MSU's master of science in marketing research, determined that an intangible measure, such as customer satisfaction, could likely supplant measures that have been used in finance and economics for decades.

An assistant professor of public policy and economics at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, she has been using data from new surveillance technology to research the disparity between the number of recorded gunshot sounds and the number of reported incidents of gun violence.

This year Richard Freeman, an economics professor at Harvard University and director of the Science and Engineering Workforce Project at the National Bureau of Economic Research, along with Wei Huang, a Harvard economics Ph.D. candidate, examined the ethnic identity of the authors of 1.5 million scientific papers written between 1985 and 2008 using Thomson Reuters's Web of Science, a comprehensive database of published research.

One way the state could get a better handle on its water situation would be to better use the technology available to it to understand things like how much groundwater it has and more detailed information on crops, said Richard Howitt, a professor emeritus, with UC Davis Agricultural & Resource Economics.

Threat: Dean Mobbs, assistant professor of cognitive neuroscience, and Colin Camerer, the Robert Kirby Professor of Behavioral Economics and T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Leadership Chair, will focus on the neural systems used in threat professor of cognitive neuroscience, and Colin Camerer, the Robert Kirby Professor of Behavioral Economics and T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Leadership Chair, will focus on the neural systems used in threat Professor of Behavioral Economics and T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Leadership Chair, will focus on the neural systems used in threat response.

Dan Ariely, a professor of psychology and behavioral economics at Duke University, questions whether algorithms used by online dating sites actually work.

Michael Podgursky, professor of economics at the University of Missouri, looked at data from the 1999 — 2000 Schools and Staffing Survey and found that when school administrators were asked whether they used salaries to reward «excellence,» only 6 percent of traditional public school administrators answered yes, while «the rates for charter (36 percent) and private schools (22 percent) were much higher.»

The study used data collated by the internationally recognised Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), which was in turn analysed by Asasociate Professor Alberto Posso from RMIT's School of Economics, Finance and Marketing.

Interesting to point out is the primary research being used to support this new teacher evaluation system going through: The research of Harvard's Raj Chetty — the Bloomberg Professor of Economics [emphasis added, given former NY Mayor Michael Bloomberg's «crusade» to, via VAMs, «turn the teaching profession into corporate - world shape»].

Thomas J. Kane, professor of Education and Economics at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, authored an essay in Education Next on the use of «education research» under ESSA.

Thomas Kane, professor of education and economics at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, authored an essay in Education Next, on the use of «state efficiency networks» through ESSA funding.

Those skeptical of the reforms would probably use harsher language,» said Douglas Harris, professor of economics at Tulane University, and director of the Education Research Alliance for New Orleans.

Dr. Ben Scafidi, a professor of economics and director of the Education Economics Center at Kennesaw State University and the author of Back to the Staffing Surge, first began examining public school staffing in 2012 using publicly available data from the U.S. Department of Eeconomics and director of the Education Economics Center at Kennesaw State University and the author of Back to the Staffing Surge, first began examining public school staffing in 2012 using publicly available data from the U.S. Department of EEconomics Center at Kennesaw State University and the author of Back to the Staffing Surge, first began examining public school staffing in 2012 using publicly available data from the U.S. Department of Education.

Boston University economics professor Kevin Lang's 2013 study, «The School to Prison Pipeline Exposed,» links increases in the use of high - stakes standardized high school exit exams to increased incarceration rates.

Boston University economics professor Kevin Lang's 2013 study The School - to - Prison Pipeline Exposed reveals that increases in the use of high - stakes standardized high school exit exams are linked to increased incarceration rates.

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The economics professors in my audience are welcome to tut - tut me for suggesting such degrading psychological tricks, but it seems crystal clear to me that if you don't use one of these or some other method of isolating and investing your profits from travel hacking, then it's exceedingly unlikely to actually improve your overall financial position.

In a finding with direct relevance to Australia, the study by University of Edinburgh economics professor Gordon Hughes warns that using wind turbines to cut emissions costs 10 times the price of a gas - fired power station.

In a paper last year, Professor Robert Pindyck from the Massachusetts Institute Technology concluded the so - called integrated assessment models used to combine climate science with economics have «crucial flaws that make them close to useless as tools for policy analysis».

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A recent article in the New York Times (Steve Lohr, «In Canada, the Impact of America's New Patent Law Is Seen «-RRB- points us to an article by two University of Pennsylvania professors (economics, law) that uses the Canadian experience in the years before and after... [more]

A recent article in the New York Times (Steve Lohr, «In Canada, the Impact of America's New Patent Law Is Seen «-RRB- points us to an article by two University of Pennsylvania professors (economics, law) that uses the Canadian experience in the years before and after the change in our law to gauge what is likely to happen in the United States after their change.

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