Search Results - subject:"multidimensionality."

Core Poverty, Basic Capabilities and Vagueness: An Application to the South African Context

Clark, David A. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2005

This paper applies a framework which addresses the vagueness of poverty. The `core poor` are those who are unambiguously poor. In applying the framework we use Sen`s capability approach and results from a recent survey. These results suggest that some South Africans set tough standards for...

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Application of a Multidimensional Nested Logit Model to Multiple-Choice Test Items

Bolt, Daniel; Wollack, James; Suh, Youngsuk - In: Psychometrika 77 (2012) 2, pp. 339-357

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Sen, Sraffa and the revival of classical political economy

Martins, Nuno - In: The journal of economic methodology 19 (2012) 2, pp. 143-157

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Idrogeno, fonti rinnovabili ed eco-efficienza. Quale approccio alla questione energetica?

Luzzati, Tommaso; Franco, Alessandro - Dipartimento di Economia e Management, Università … - 2004

The paper is about the nature of the relationships among energy economy and society. Economic growth and development was fostered by an increasing use of fossil energy. Its exhaustion has always been a major worry. Furthermore, the abundance of energy has been made possible to move huge amounts...

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Posterior Predictive Model Checking for Conjunctive Multidimensionality in Item Response Theory

Levy, Roy - In: Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics 36 (2011) 5, pp. 672-694

If data exhibit multidimensionality, key conditional independence assumptions of unidimensional models do not hold. The …

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Measuring welfare: Latent variable models for happiness and capabilities in the presence of unobservable heterogeneity

Anand, Paul; Krishnakumar, Jaya; Tran, Ngoc Bich - In: Journal of Public Economics 95 (2011) 3, pp. 205-215

The paper contributes to the operationalisation of the capabilities approach to welfare economics by developing and analyzing data on the freedoms of adults in Argentina. Specifically, it reports on the development and delivery of a survey instrument for measuring capabilities, calculates for...

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Mapping EU Attitudes: Conceptual and Empirical Dimensions of Euroscepticism and EU Support

Boomgaarden, Hajo G.; Schuck, Andreas R. T.; Elenbaas, … - In: European Union Politics 12 (2011) 2, pp. 241-266

Public attitudes towards the European Union (EU) are at the heart of a growing body of research. The nature, structure and antecedents of these attitudes, however, are in need of conceptual and empirical refinement. With growing diversification of the policies of the Union, a one-dimensional...

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Static Versus Dynamic Structural Models of Depression: The Case of the CES-D

Blais, Marc R.; Hess, Ursula; Riddle, Andrea S. - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2002

Depression is composed of multiple subcomponents including social, cognitive, affective, and somatic symptomatology. Many widely used self-report scales are also multidimensional, suggesting that the subcomponents of depression are empirically differentiated, yet the use of a composite score is...

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La multidimensionalidad de la pobreza. Una revisión de la literatura

Aguirre, Briggite - In: REVISTA FINANZAS Y POLÍTICA ECONÓMICA (2010)

Este trabajo pretende abordar la noción de pobreza desde el punto de vista de la literatura, la cual contiene diversas concepciones y posibilidades que en definitiva permiten comprender qué significa ser pobre y quiénes lo son o lo pueden llegar a ser. Particularmente se expone el caso de una...

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Causality and multidimensionality of strategic performance management systems: the impact on managers' satisfaction

Laitinen, Erkki K.; Lansiluoto, Aapo; Ulvila, Marko - In: International Journal of Accounting, Auditing and … 6 (2010) 1, pp. 28-53

systems (SPMS). The study investigates the effects of multidimensionality, causality and utilisation of performance … the empirical evidence supports three of the study's five hypotheses. Multidimensionality has more effect on satisfaction … than causality. Causality has an effect on the utilisation of SPMS. The direct effects of multidimensionality on …

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