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2008 Program, Suny College Of Environmental Science And Forestry Jan 2008

2008 Program, Suny College Of Environmental Science And Forestry

Upstate New York Science Librarians Conference

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Associative Retrieval Processes In Episodic Memory, Michael J. Kahana, Marc W. Howard, Sean M. Polyn Jan 2008

Associative Retrieval Processes In Episodic Memory, Michael J. Kahana, Marc W. Howard, Sean M. Polyn

Psychology - All Scholarship

Association and context constitute two of the central ideas in the history of episodic memory research. Following a brief discussion of the history of these ideas, we review data that demonstrate the complementary roles of temporal contiguity and semantic relatedness in determining the order in which subjects recall lists of items and the timing of their successive recalls. These analyses reveal that temporal contiguity effects persist over very long time scales, a result that challenges traditional psychological and neuroscientific models of association. The form of the temporal contiguity effect is conserved across all of the major recall tasks and even …

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The Interaction Of Metropolitan Area Costs And The Federal Earned Income Tax Credit: One Size Fits All?, Katie Fitzpatrick, Jeffrey P. Thompson Jan 2008

The Interaction Of Metropolitan Area Costs And The Federal Earned Income Tax Credit: One Size Fits All?, Katie Fitzpatrick, Jeffrey P. Thompson

Center for Policy Research

The Federal Earned Income Tax Credoit (EITC) contributed to increasing employment rates for single women during the 1990s. This paper expands on what is known about the labor supply response to the EITC by exploiting differences in the cost-of-living faced by potentially eligible recipients in different geographic areas. Using the 1993 EITC expansion, we demonstrate that the labor supply response varies considerably with metropolitan area cost-of-living. We identify an increase in labor force participation among single mothers of as much as 10 percentage points in the lowest cost metropolitan areas. There is no discernable participation response in metropolitan areas with …

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Testing For Heteroskedasticity And Spatial Correlation In A Random Effects Panel Data Model, Badi H. Baltagi, Seuck Heun Song, Jae Hyeok Kwon Jan 2008

Testing For Heteroskedasticity And Spatial Correlation In A Random Effects Panel Data Model, Badi H. Baltagi, Seuck Heun Song, Jae Hyeok Kwon

Center for Policy Research

A panel data regression model with heteroskedastic as well as spatially correlated disturbance is considered, and a joint LM test for homoskedasticity and no spatial correlation is derived. In addition, a conditional LM test for no spatial correlation given heteroskedasticity, as well as a conditional LM test for homoskedasticity given spatial correlation, are also derived. These LM tests are compared with marginal LM tests that ignore heteroskedasticity in testing for spatial correlation, or spatial correlation in testing for homoskedasticity. Monte Carlo results show that these LM tests as well as their LR counterparts perform well even for small N and …

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New Evidence On The Dynamic Wage Curve For Western Germany: 1980-2004, Badi H. Baltagi, Uwe Blien, Katja Wolf Jan 2008

New Evidence On The Dynamic Wage Curve For Western Germany: 1980-2004, Badi H. Baltagi, Uwe Blien, Katja Wolf

Center for Policy Research

Blanchflower and Oswald (1994) reported that they have found an 'empirical law of economics'--the Wage Curve. Our paper reconsiders the western German Wage Curve using disaggregated regional data and is based on almost one million employees drawn from the Federal Employment Services of Germany over the period 1980-2004. We find that the wage equation is highly autoregressive but far from unit root. The unemployment elasticity is significant but relatively small: only between -0.02 and -0.04. We also check the sensitivity of this elasticity for different population groups (young versus old, men versus women, less educated versus highly educated, German native …

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Do We Want To Measure The Quality Of Care For Vulnerable Older People? The Acove Approach., Neil S. Wenger Jan 2008

Do We Want To Measure The Quality Of Care For Vulnerable Older People? The Acove Approach., Neil S. Wenger

Center for Policy Research

There's limited information available about measuring the quality of medical care that is targeted to the needs of older patients. And there's very limited pressure on the system to provide high quality geriatric care. Why is that? Because the quality measures haven't been adequately developed and implemented, and it's more difficult to measure care for an older sample. Measuring care for ill older adults is complex, because they tend to have multiple medical conditions, and they demonstrate substantial variation in goals for care (Wenger and colleagues 2007). The Assessing Care of Vulnerable Elders (ACOVE) project began in 1998 as a …

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Testing For Heteroskedasticity And Serial Correlation In A Random Effects Panel Data Model, Badi H. Baltagi, Byoung Cheol Jung, Seuck Heun Song Jan 2008

Testing For Heteroskedasticity And Serial Correlation In A Random Effects Panel Data Model, Badi H. Baltagi, Byoung Cheol Jung, Seuck Heun Song

Center for Policy Research

This paper considers a panel data regression model with heteroskedastic as well as serially correlated disturbances, and derives a joint LM test for homoskedasticity and no first order serial correlation. The restricted model is the standard random individual error component model. It also derives a conditional LM test for homoskedasticity given serial correlation, as well as a conditional LM test for no first order serial correlation given heteroskedasticity, all in the context of a random effects panel data model. Monte Carlo results show that these tests, along with their likelihood ratio alternatives, have good size and power under various forms …

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Financial Development And Openness: Evidence From Panel Data, Badi H. Baltagi, Panicos O. Demetriades, Siong Hook Law Jan 2008

Financial Development And Openness: Evidence From Panel Data, Badi H. Baltagi, Panicos O. Demetriades, Siong Hook Law

Center for Policy Research

This paper addresses the empirical question of whether trade and financial openness can help explain the recent pace in financial development, as well as its variation across countries in recent years. Utilizing annual data from developing and industrialized countries and dynamic panel estimation techniques, we provide evidence which suggests that both types of openness are statistically significant determinants of banking sector development. Our findings reveal that the marginal effects of trade (financial) openness are negatively related to the degree of financial (trade) openness, indicating that relatively closed economies stand to benefit most from opening up their trade and/or capital accounts. …

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Public School Choice And Integration: Evidence From Durham, North Carolina, Robert Bifulco, Helen F. Ladd, Stephen Ross Jan 2008

Public School Choice And Integration: Evidence From Durham, North Carolina, Robert Bifulco, Helen F. Ladd, Stephen Ross

Center for Policy Research

Using evidence from Durham, North Carolina, we examine the impact of school choice programs on racial and class-based segregation across schools. Theoretical considerations suggest that how choice programs affect segregation will depend not only on the family preferences emphasized in the sociology literature but also on the linkages between student composition, school quality and student achievement emphasized in the economics literature. Reasonable assumptions about the distribution of preferences over race, class, and school characteristics suggest that the segregating choices of students from advantaged backgrounds are likely to outweigh any integrating choices by disadvantaged students. The results of our empirical analysis …

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The Structural Negligence Of Us Refugee Resettlement Policy, Fethi Keles Jan 2008

The Structural Negligence Of Us Refugee Resettlement Policy, Fethi Keles

Anthropology - All Scholarship

No abstract provided.

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Don’T Gamble With New York’S Lottery, John Yinger Jan 2008

Don’T Gamble With New York’S Lottery, John Yinger

Center for Policy Research

It’s Elementary is a series of essays on topics in education and education policy. The main focus is on education finance in New York State, but general research findings in education and education policy issues in several other states are also discussed. John Yinger, Professor of Economics and Public Administration at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University is the author of most of these essays, although a few are written by or co-authored with other scholars.

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International Technology Transfer For Climate Policy, David Popp Jan 2008

International Technology Transfer For Climate Policy, David Popp

Center for Policy Research

While the developed world is starting to limit emissions of greenhouse gases, emissions from the developing world are increasing as a result of economic growth. Reducing these emissions while still enabling developing countries to grow requires the use of new technologies. In most cases, these technologies are first created in high-income countries. Thus, the challenge for climate policy is to encourage the transfer of these climate-friendly technologies to the developing world. This policy brief reviews the economic literature on environmental technology transfer. It then discusses the implications of this literature for climate policy, focusing on the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) …

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Our Troubled Health Care System: Why Is It So Hard To Fix?, Judy Feder Jan 2008

Our Troubled Health Care System: Why Is It So Hard To Fix?, Judy Feder

Center for Policy Research

This brief draws heavily on Judith Feder, 2004, "Crowd-Out and the Politics of Health Reform," The Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics 32(3): 461-464. We all know that affordable health care is now back on the political agenda, and it's about time! Because all of us--families, businesses, and governments--are struggling with the ever-increasing costs of care. Every year about a million people are added to the rolls of the uninsured. In 2006, it was even more, over 2 million. The number of people without health insurance coverage has reached more than 47 million. People *with* insurance are seeing their benefits …

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Testing For Random Effects And Spatial Lag Dependence In Panel Data Models, Badi H. Baltagi, Long Liu Jan 2008

Testing For Random Effects And Spatial Lag Dependence In Panel Data Models, Badi H. Baltagi, Long Liu

Center for Policy Research

This paper derives a joint Lagrande Multiplier (LM) test which simultaneously tests for the absence of spatial lag dependence and random individual effects in a panel data regression model. It turns out that this LM statistic is the sum of two standard LM statistics. The first one tests for the absence of spatial lag dependence ignoring the random individual effects, and the second one tests for the absence of random individual effects ignoring the spatial lag dependence. This paper also derives two conditional LM tests. The first one tests for the absence of random individual effects without ignoring the possible …

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Building A Bridge From The Research Office To The Moon, Linda M. Galloway Jan 2008

Building A Bridge From The Research Office To The Moon, Linda M. Galloway

Librarian Publications

Creating an information services “bridge” – from the library to another department within an institution - serves as a conduit for exchange of resources and ideas. This bridge will strengthen the information services department and solidify its purpose as an integral part of the institutional whole. Within our small campus library, we were able to create a librarian position that links Moon Library to the Office of Research Programs in a mutually beneficial relationship. A modified librarian position was shaped that combines traditional academic library services with those of a grants librarian – collecting and disseminating relevant funding notices to …

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Fitting Event-History Models To Uneventful Data, Douglas A. Wolf, Thomas M. Gill Dec 2007

Fitting Event-History Models To Uneventful Data, Douglas A. Wolf, Thomas M. Gill

Center for Policy Research

Data with which to study disability dynamics usually take the form of successive current-status measures of disability rather than a record of events or spell durations. One recent paper presented a semi-Markov model of disability dynamics in which spell durations were inferred from sequences of current-status measures taken at 12-month intervals. In that analysis, it was assumed that no unobserved disablement transitions occurred between annual interviews. We use data from a longitudinal survey in which participants' disability was measured at monthly intervals, and simulate the survival curves for remaining disabled that would be obtained with 1- and 12-month follow-up intervals. …

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Homeownership Gaps Among Low-Income And Minority Households, Donald R. Haurin, Christopher E. Herbert, Stuart S. Rosenthal Nov 2007

Homeownership Gaps Among Low-Income And Minority Households, Donald R. Haurin, Christopher E. Herbert, Stuart S. Rosenthal

Economics - All Scholarship

Although homeownership rates currently stand at historically high levels for all segments of the U.S. population, large gaps in homeownership rates remain when comparing various groups of the population. As of the third quarter of 2006, the non-Hispanic White (hereafter, White) homeownership rate was 76 percent while African-American and Hispanic homeownership rates were below 50 percent and the Asian homeownership rate was 60 percent. The homeownership gap between African-American and White households was larger in 2006 than it was in 1990, while the homeownership gap between Hispanics and Whites was only slightly smaller in 2006 than it was in 1990. …

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November 2007, Syracuse Department Of Economics Nov 2007

November 2007, Syracuse Department Of Economics

Economics - All Scholarship

No abstract provided.

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Measurement Error In Earnings Data In The Health And Retirement Study, Jessie Bricker, Gary V. Engelhardt Oct 2007

Measurement Error In Earnings Data In The Health And Retirement Study, Jessie Bricker, Gary V. Engelhardt

Economics - All Scholarship

We provide new evidence on the extent of measurement error in respondent-reported earnings data by exploiting detailed W-2 records matched to older workers in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Our empirical findings are qualitatively consistent with the findings of previous studies. Mean measurement error in the 1991 HRS earnings data for men is somewhat larger than what has been found in other validation studies, but is still modest, averaging about 0.059 log points, approximately 5.9 percent, or $1,500. For women in 1991, it is 0.067 log points, approximately 6.7 percent, or $916. We find a negative correlation between the …

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Bandwidth Selection And The Estimation Of Treatment Effects With Unbalanced Data, Jose Galdo, Jeffrey A. Smith, Dan Black Oct 2007

Bandwidth Selection And The Estimation Of Treatment Effects With Unbalanced Data, Jose Galdo, Jeffrey A. Smith, Dan Black

Economics - All Scholarship

This paper addresses the selection of smoothing parameters for estimating the average treatment effect on the treated using matching methods. Because precise estimation of the expected counterfactual is particularly important in regions containing the mass of the treated units, we define and implement weighted cross-validation approaches that improve over conventional methods by considering the location of the treated units in the selection of the smoothing parameters. We also implement a locally varying bandwidth method that uses larger bandwidths in areas where the mass of the treated units is located. A Monte Carlo study compares our proposed methods to the conventional …

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Pinning Down The Value Of Statistical Life, Thomas J. Kniesner, W. Kip Viscusi, Christopher Woock, James P. Ziliak Oct 2007

Pinning Down The Value Of Statistical Life, Thomas J. Kniesner, W. Kip Viscusi, Christopher Woock, James P. Ziliak

Economics - All Scholarship

Our research addresses fundamental long - standing concerns in the compensating wage differentials literature and its public policy implications: the econometric properties of estimates of the value of statistical life (VSL) and the wide range of such estimates from about $0.5 million to about $21 million. We address most of the prominent econometric issues by applying panel data, a new and more accurate fatality risk measure, and systematic selection of panel estimator in our research. Controlling for measurement error, endogeneity, individual heterogeneity, and state dependence yields both a reasonable average level and narrow range for the estimated value of a …

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Evaluation Of Parishoners' Knowledge Of The Franciscan Collaborative Ministries, Syracuse University. Maxwell School. Community Benchmarks Program Oct 2007

Evaluation Of Parishoners' Knowledge Of The Franciscan Collaborative Ministries, Syracuse University. Maxwell School. Community Benchmarks Program

Community Benchmarks Program

This report presents data collected from the parishioners of the Franciscan Church of the Assumption in Syracuse, New York. The information collected from this study will be used by the Franciscan Collaborative Ministries (FCM) to assess the parishioners’ knowledge of programs and participation with the FCM.

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Northside Empire And Empowerment Business Assessment, Syracuse University. Maxwell School. Community Benchmarks Program Oct 2007

Northside Empire And Empowerment Business Assessment, Syracuse University. Maxwell School. Community Benchmarks Program

Community Benchmarks Program

This report presents data collected from businesses within the Northside Empire and Empowerment economic development zones in Syracuse, New York. This information was gathered for the Northside Collaboratory. The purpose of this study is threefold: 1. Increase awareness of economic incentives available to businesses through the Empire and Empowerment Zone programs. 2. Identify business needs within the Northside community. 3. Develop an up-to-date directory of all Northside businesses.

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Client And Volunteer Satisfaction With The Povorello Medical Clinic, Syracuse University. Maxwell School. Community Benchmarks Program Oct 2007

Client And Volunteer Satisfaction With The Povorello Medical Clinic, Syracuse University. Maxwell School. Community Benchmarks Program

Community Benchmarks Program

This report presents data collected from the Poverello Medical Clinic of the Franciscan Collaborative Ministries. Two surveys were administered, one assessed client satisfaction and the second volunteer satisfaction. The information provided will help the medical clinic to meet client needs and to maintain the continued support of the volunteers.

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Fall 2007, School Of Information Studies Oct 2007

Fall 2007, School Of Information Studies

iSchool Newsletter

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Number 7 Fall 2007, Special Collections Research Center Oct 2007

Number 7 Fall 2007, Special Collections Research Center

Newsletters from The Special Collection Research Center - The Courant

No abstract provided.

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Satisfaction Measures With The Franciscan Legal Clinic, Syracuse University. Maxwell School. Community Benchmarks Program Oct 2007

Satisfaction Measures With The Franciscan Legal Clinic, Syracuse University. Maxwell School. Community Benchmarks Program

Community Benchmarks Program

This report examines client and volunteer satisfaction with the services provided by the Franciscan Collaborative Ministries (FCM) Legal Clinic. This report was requested by FCM at the Assisi Center on the North Side of Syracuse. The purpose of the client survey is to address client concerns. The purpose of the volunteer survey is to continue the high retention rate of volunteers and to create a network among the volunteers to improve services for future and current clients

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Volume 19 Number 3, Newhouse Network, Fall 2007, Syracuse University S.I. Newhouse School Of Public Communications Oct 2007

Volume 19 Number 3, Newhouse Network, Fall 2007, Syracuse University S.I. Newhouse School Of Public Communications

Newsletters from School of Public Communications - Newhouse Network

Dean's column -- Newhouse III dedication -- Year of the first amendment -- First amendment scholars program -- Newhouse in New York -- Executive Education -- TRF Semester Study -- Nhouse Productions -- Images of the South Side -- Emergency Preparedness -- Student News -- Mirror Awards -- Ivory Tower goes statewide -- Envi Magazine -- Faculty briefs -- Laura Pomerantz '03 -- William Kagler '51 -- Class notes

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Issue 51, Autumn 2007, Society Of Bead Researchers Oct 2007

Issue 51, Autumn 2007, Society Of Bead Researchers

The Bead Forum: Newsletter of the Society of Bead Researchers

Glass Trade Beads: An Assemblage Found on a Shipwreck off the Coast of West Africa, by Lisa Hopwood.

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Planning For And Managing Digital Projects, Peter D. Verheyen Sep 2007

Planning For And Managing Digital Projects, Peter D. Verheyen

Librarian Publications

Part of the "Ready, Set, Digitize" workshop series hosted by CLRC and SCLRC. Cortland, NY, September 10, 2007. The full-day workshop described types of digitization projects and discussed infrastructure, funding, standards for file formats and metadata, and the impact on public services /reference.

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