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How Big Should Government Be?
(National Tax Association, 1997)Suggests that the deadweight burden caused by a tax rate increase depends not only on labor force participation response but also on other dimensions of labor supply (the forms in which compensation is paid; the forms of ... -
How Broad Are Thematic Roles? Evidence From Structural Priming
(Elsevier BV, 2018-10)Verbs that are similar in meaning tend to occur in the same syntactic structures. For example, give and hand, which denote transfer of possession, both appear in the prepositional-object construction: “The child gave / ... -
How Can We Construct Abelian Galois Extensions of Basic Number Fields?
(American Mathematical Society (AMS), 2011-05-01)Irregular primes-37 being the first such prime-have played a great role in number theory. This article discusses Ken Ribet's construction-for all irregular primes p-of specific abelian, unramified, degree p extensions of ... -
How Can We Discover the Contents of Experience?
(University of Memphis, 2007)How can we discover the contents of experience? I argue that neither introspection alone nor naturalistic theories of experience content are sufficient to discover these contents. I propose another method of discovery: the ... -
How Censorship in China Allows Government Criticism but Silences Collective Expression
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2013)We offer the first large scale, multiple source analysis of the outcome of what may be the most extensive effort to selectively censor human expression ever implemented. To do this, we have devised a system to locate, ... -
How Changes in Extracellular Matrix Mechanics and Gene Expression Variability Might Combine to Drive Cancer Progression
(Public Library of Science, 2013)Changes in extracellular matrix (ECM) structure or mechanics can actively drive cancer progression; however, the underlying mechanism remains unknown. Here we explore whether this process could be mediated by changes in ... -
How common are dot-like distributions? Taxonomical oversplitting in western European Agrodiaetus (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) revealed by chromosomal and molecular markers
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)Approximately 50 taxa of butterflies in Western Europe have been described as new species or elevated to the level of species during the last 40 years. Many, especially those belonging to the genus Agrodiaetus, have unusually ... -
How comparative psychology can shed light on human evolution: Response to Beran et al.’s discussion of “Cognitive capacities for cooking in chimpanzees”
(Springer Nature, 2016)We recently reported a study (Warneken & Rosati Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 282, 20150229, 2015) examining whether chimpanzees possess several cognitive capacities that are critical to engage in cooking. In a ... -
How Culture Matters: Enriching Our Understandings of Poverty
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How Development Matters: A Research Note on the Relationship between Development, Democracy, and Women's Political Representation
(SAGE Publications, 2008)Most studies find that the substantial cross-national variation in women's legislative representation is not explained by cross-national differences in socioeconomic development. By contrast, this note demonstrates that ... -
How Do Astronomers Share Data? Reliability and Persistence of Datasets Linked in AAS Publications and a Qualitative Study of Data Practices among US Astronomers
(Public Library of Science, 2014)We analyze data sharing practices of astronomers over the past fifteen years. An analysis of URL links embedded in papers published by the American Astronomical Society reveals that the total number of links included in ... -
How Do Disks Survive Mergers?
(American Astronomical Society, 2009)We develop a general physical model for how galactic disks survive and/or are destroyed in mergers and interactions. Based on simple dynamical arguments, we show that gas primarily loses angular momentum to internal torques ... -
How do ecologists select and use indicator species to monitor ecological change? Insights from 14 years of publication in Ecological Indicators
(Elsevier BV, 2016)Indicator species (IS) are used to monitor environmental changes, assess the efficacy of management, and provide warning signals for impending ecological shifts. Though widely adopted in recent years by ecologists, ... -
How Do House Prices Affect Consumption? Evidence from Micro Data
(Elsevier, 2007)Housing is a major component of wealth. Since house prices fluctuate considerably over time, it is important to understand how these fluctuations affect households’ consumption decisions. Rising house prices may stimulate ... -
How Do Regulators Influence Mortgage Risk: Evidence from an Emerging Market
(National Bureau of Economic Research, 2012)To understand the effects of regulation on mortgage risk, it is instructive to track the history of regulatory changes in a country rather than to rely entirely on cross- country evidence that can be contaminated by ... -
How Does Declining Unionism Affect the American Middle Class and Intergenerational Mobility?
(Federal Reserve System, 2016)This paper examines unionism’s relationship to the size of the middle class and its relationship to intergenerational mobility. Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) 1985 and 2011 files are used to examine the change in ... -
How Does Managed Care Do It?
(Rand Journal of Economics, 2000)Integrating the health services and insurance industries, as health maintenance organizations (HMOs) do, could lower expenditure by reducing either the quantity of services or unit price or both. We compare the treatment ... -
How Does Privatization Work? Evidence from the Russian Shops
(University of Chicago Press, 1996)We use a survey of 452 Russian shops, most of which were privatized between 1992 and 1993, to measure the importance of alternative channels through which privatization promotes restructuring. Restructuring is measured as ... -
How Does Simplified Disclosure Affect Individuals' Mutual Fund Choices?
(National Bureau of Economic Research, 2009)We use an experiment to estimate the effect of the SEC’s Summary Prospectus, which simplifies mutual fund disclosure. Our subjects chose an equity portfolio and a bond portfolio. Subjects received either statutory prospectuses ... -
How does visual phenomenology constrain object-seeing?
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2006)I argue that there are phenomenological constraints on what it is to see an object, and that these are overlooked by some theories that offer allegedly sufficient causal and counterfactual conditions on object-seeing.