This paper presents ongoing research conducted through collaboration between the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and the Arkansas Department of Education to develop an entity resolution and identity management system. The process includes a multi-phase approach consisting of data-quality...

Purpose – This paper aims to provide an overview of entrepreneurship education in the wider context of the Chinese educational system in transition and raise pertinent questions regarding its direction and future development. Design/methodology/approach – A case study approach is used to...

Traditional methods of applying classification models into the area of credit scoring may ignore the effect from censoring. Survival analysis has been introduced with its ability to deal with censored data. The mixture cure model, one important branch of survival models, is also applied in the...

Based on the physical phenomena of optical effects produced by the partial discharge (PD) and on the characteristics of fluorescent fiber sensing of weak fluorescent signals, a PD measurement system using a fluorescent fiber sensor was designed. The main parameters of the sensing system were...

This research examines customer biases relating to employee accents in call service encounters. Extant research and practitioners generally assume that customers automatically evaluate call service employees with a negatively biased accent lower than employees with a standard accent. However,...

This paper studies quantitatively how a microfinance program in the U.S. affects occupational choice, firm size, credit access, wages, output, inequality, and welfare. The general equilibrium model has heterogeneous agents, a bank with a minimum loan size requirement and a microfinance...

We study two vertical constraints on pricing which have received little study. A vertical MFN (“VMFN”) refers to an MFN on retail prices that is sought by an upstream manufacturer. A vertical margin constraint (“VMC”) refers to a requirement that the margin earned by a retailer on a...